A special day

Before I post more news and long stories (which are being delayed by my laziness and my somewhat busy though relaxing daily schedule here), I would like to give you a few simple words of a celebration that went on this last sunday.

We held a party at our little home in North Point, which was quite a challenge given the size of the 2 people apartment, and the fact that our guest list comprised 10 people. Once the problem of finding a large enough table solved, with the help of a furniture and ironing boards, we had to bought an extra 4 chairs and clean up the whole flat.

The next decision was that of the menu, and we picked the easy solution of a hotpot. For non-initiated people, the original chinese hotpot (or “Fondue Chinoise”, actually originally from Chongqing, ex-city of Sichuan province now a state on its own) is quite different from the one we know in Europe. Here the goal is to find as many diverse food as possible (meat, fish, meat and fish balls, dumplings, vegetables, mushrooms, noodles, etc…) and cook it altogether in a meat or fish based soup. We made it simple and accessible for everybody, so we avoided the more exotic meat parts that are usually available in restaurants, such as pig/beef intestine, brains, lungs, stomach, liver, throat, testi… you got the picture.

Anyway let’s save up some words for the next post, and let pictures talk for us.

A nice hotpot celebration with our common HKUST friends, from left to right: Florence, Jeannette, Len Foong, Berto, Eesa, me, Kangol, Yoanna, William

~Happy birthday Eesa~

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