Happy Birthday to Alex!

The Menu:
Entre
Chips & Dips
Prawn Toast with Coriander and Bamboo Shoots

Mains
Laksa (Rice Noodles with chicken, Egg, prawns, bean sprouts on Spicy coconut gravy)
Ka-chang Ma cooked in Chinese Wine (Herbal Chicken Kuching/Hokkien Style)
Crab Sauce Tofu with Brocolli
E-fu Noodles in Egg Sauce
Seafood/Avocado Salad

Dessert
Pineapple Upside down cake (success with crunchy base)
Self Saucing Chocolate Pudding (Baked too early, the sauce dissapeared!!!)
Tropical fruits with ginger syrup.

We had our cousins Iain & Phine, as well as our lovely new/old friends Richard & Clara with their kids over. My girls were thrilled to have so many people in our house. The kitchen sink was clogged and not usable 2 hours before our guests arrived. We even flooded the unit below. We had to resort to "Village style" washing up on the shower floors...yikes!

We enjoyed the cakes, everyone apparently liked it. The choc cake had to be cooked earlier (I should have planned it better) and the sauce resoaked back into the cake. BUT it tasted nice especially with ice cream. Laksa's great,...must cook ka-chang ma on the day, it was falling apart as it was done the day before.

Now we have tons of leftovers, half of which have gone off (courtesy of the tropical weather). I had a blast and enjoyed ALL my guests (cousin included who kept picking on me, hmmmph!) and would LOVE to have people over more. Sigh!

Hope you had fun too, dear Alex!