cny reunion dinner

*back dated entry*

after my papa saying he want to eat pen cai (盆菜) for a couple of years, this year we finally gotten one as i saw a pretty ok deal on deals.sg.... normally the 盆菜 price at restaurants like crystal jade will cost about $400+ for 6 pax but the deal i saw only cost $158 for 6 pax but only for takeaway & somemore have complementary yu sheng from hotel Re!.... so i thought hey, quite a good deal, just get one & try... & again... there is a catch which i shall talk more about it later on....

since this year we gotten the pen cai, so we thought of cooking lesser food since the portion is for 6 pax & we have only have 7 adults & 2 babies.... i tell you... wrong move... NEVER believe what they state online.... when my mama called in & arrange for collection time & date, the staff said the pen cai is for 4-6 pax... as usual, they will state the max number of people online... but ok... we give it to them & thinking 4 pax for pen cai should be still quite a large of amount of food.... so this year i cooked lesser food, i only prepared corn + fish maw soup, mushroom+oyster+fat choi & prawn for dinner...

pen cai

yu sheng

yu sheng with salmon slices

 ok.. from the picture, i think the pen cai looked pretty decent.... i would say was really average... there wasnt much ingredient inside... it had 6 abalone, some mushroom, several oysters which tasted super salty like salted fish, radish, fat choi, broccoli & some yong tau fu thing....  i would say the portion really not enough for 4 pax, not mentioning 6pax UNLESS everyone is super small eater... the yu sheng was pretty pathetic too but it was complementary so i shall not complain much about it... but i would say the portion was too little for 6pax if you had to pay for it.....

the reunion dinner dishes = pen cai, mushroom+oyster & prawn

so due to our over expectation of the pen cai... i would say this year reunion dinner we didnt have as much food as we used to.... of cause we didnt go hungry but probably will have a more sumptuous meal next year....