After that Les Amis luncheon yesterday, I announced loudly, “I’m not gonna eat anything for dinner tonight”. Little did I know that just mere hours later, I would be eating my words.

My aunt (dad’s sister) called at around 5pm.. I heard snippets of the conversation before Dad said over the phone, “Oh no thanks, we’re busy, going out tonight”. After he hung up, I barraged him with questions: who called? What dinner? Who’s cooking? When? Turns out that my uncle was cooking and I love his food.. so I promptly called back and RSVP’d a “YES PLEASE!!! We’ll be there” 😉

After eagerly asking my aunt what was being served, I found out it was “just some salmon and roast beef, for around 6 of us” A nice, simple dinner.. I thought. Which is practically “not eating anything”, right? Wrong!

When we arrived, we were shocked at the number of shoes strewn outside her front door. I’m not talking a few extra pairs.. but like 20-25 extra pairs. Confused, we walked in and were overwhelmed by a party-load of people, with a dinner party going on in full swing! Turns out my aunt ended up inviting a LOT more people than originally intended.. so it turned out to be a big party with tons of food instead, *lol*

My aunt’s pretty kitchen

Asian “chin chow” drink

Prawn and mango cocktail with passionfruit sauce

Fishballs, cocktail sausage and cucumber

Potato and egg salad with shallots and bacon

Roast beef tenderloin

Herbal chicken – OMG this was my favourite

Salmon Wellington and pasta

Roast lamb

Shepherds Pie

Fresh canteloupe juice

Japanese donuts (we brought these)

Homemade orange chiffon cake

Haagen Daaz “berries & cream” ice cream with fresh berries

D24 durians – so stinky I certainly didn’t have any *yuck*

My uncle’s super-cute Maltese.. eee!!