Family September birthdays dinner – the savoury
On Sunday evening the family got together to celebrate my Dad and brother’s birthdays, which are both in September. My younger sister Juji’s birthday is also in September, but we’re celebrating with high tea next weekend – stay tuned for the photos of that ;).
We had three kinds of Chinese roast/barbecue meats – these were bought, not homemade.
Roast duck…
Barbecue pork (char siew)…
Roast pork (siew yoke), tender meat striped with tasty fat (yeah, so bad, I know!) and topped with crunchy crackling…
Mum also boiled a whole chicken, rubbed all over with sesame oil and chopped into pieces…
…which went with the sliced fresh cucumber…
… and Mama’s chilli sauce…
… and garlicky chicken rice!
Of course we did have a token vegetable dish, which Juji cooked – a delicious assortment of vegies including asparagus, snowpeas, carrots, broccoli, capsicum, baby corn and mushrooms. There was tofu in the dish too – yum.
Here’s my plate, with a little bit of everything. I couldn’t get enough of the char siew. It was on the table right in front of me for most of the meal, and I just couldn’t help myself, I kept taking another piece, and then another, and then yet another…
