In Teviot place, our flat has 3 members. Pei, Matt and myself.
Flat above has another 3 guys. CS, James and Nick.
6 of us cooked dinner together. Each day they will be a chef and a dishwasher. Let say James cooks today, Matt wash dishes. The next day, Matt will cook and it's Nick's turn to wash... and so on.
Dinner kicks off at 7.30pm daily. Our daily menu includes:
one meat.
normally chicken. cheapest and least efforts to process, just go to any pakistanis shop, say '3 pairs of chicken leg, cut small'. 5 minutes later, the uncle will hand you a bag with fresh, sometimes abit bloody chicken and price written on the bag.
Flat above has another 3 guys. CS, James and Nick.
6 of us cooked dinner together. Each day they will be a chef and a dishwasher. Let say James cooks today, Matt wash dishes. The next day, Matt will cook and it's Nick's turn to wash... and so on.
Dinner kicks off at 7.30pm daily. Our daily menu includes:
one meat.
normally chicken. cheapest and least efforts to process, just go to any pakistanis shop, say '3 pairs of chicken leg, cut small'. 5 minutes later, the uncle will hand you a bag with fresh, sometimes abit bloody chicken and price written on the bag.
Come back, wash, throw into pans, done! Normally this kind of chicken you cook, no need to put oil, very economical. You buy chicken, they free oil for you. Super duper oily. If cook soup, can readily scope out half a bowl of oil from top when it's done. Eiyerr.
However, we recently discovered how to make char siew already. So not much of chicks tales anymore.
one vege.
Although 4 out of 6 of us are carnivour, another 2 strongly hold that vege is a must in daily diet. So, after the house council, we decided to have one vege everyday. Haha. Tell you, if no vege in the meal, later on 2 hours after meal, you will see Nick starts cutting up Kiwis to make up for the Vit C bits already.
one soup.
Usually herbs lor. Don't know since when our house starts having endless supplies of chinese herbs. All sorts.
one extra dish
Depends on cook of the day.
and rice. Hehe.
Everyone in the house got different specialties and signature dishes. People say the ways one cook reflects their personality.
CS - He loves chicks. So does his dishes. Famous for chicken, best with tandoori, soysauce and sweet sour chicken. Especially his tandoori, memang superb already. Got chance must try. =)
James - A stronghold catholics, honest and trustworthy. His dishes always very old days grandmother style. Never too oily, taste just nice. Signature dishes: Ginger chicken. Potato salad with tuna.
Pei - New dishes discoverer. She reminds me of my mum seriously. Always add this add that, end up come out become nice new dish. Haha. All rounder in the house. All sorts of food, if she tries it, probably the next day you will see her start making. She can even amaze us with mee hun kuey.
Nick - People always say beautiful people makes nice dessert. This hongkee's in charge of our house desserts department ranging from banana toffee, tiramisu, cheese cakes... all sorts.
Matt - BEing a multitalented person who masters more than 5 languages and is currently picking up more, plays well in all sort of sports ranging from golf to pingpong, his dishes resembles him alot. Pasta with one layer of ham on top and one layer of vege at the bottom. All in one. Easy and nutritious.
Me - Vege department and seafood department. Brocolli and fish are my favourite. No oily styles generally. Avoid sharing of saliva.
Trend of the house: If we ever discovered a new dish and if the house like it, then sorry seems to be to the inventor already. It will continually get demanded and due to public pressure, the inventor will have no choice but still need to cook it even though it's not his/her day of duty. Until we all jelak with it! Hahaha. And after that perhaps like 3 or 4 months later when we are not jelak anymore, we will think of it's best-ness again. However, something is weird. It's like no one can ever get the taste right again, not even the cook him/herself. So we normally just abandoned it.
Hehe. Had Nick's tiramisu today. So yummy. Luv it to bits. Got his recipe already. Gotta try do it next time when he isn't around. Jenn's cranberry muffins are good too. It's sour so I like it. Feel good living with all these people and get pampered with all the fine desserts. =)
However, we recently discovered how to make char siew already. So not much of chicks tales anymore.
one vege.
Although 4 out of 6 of us are carnivour, another 2 strongly hold that vege is a must in daily diet. So, after the house council, we decided to have one vege everyday. Haha. Tell you, if no vege in the meal, later on 2 hours after meal, you will see Nick starts cutting up Kiwis to make up for the Vit C bits already.
one soup.
Usually herbs lor. Don't know since when our house starts having endless supplies of chinese herbs. All sorts.
one extra dish
Depends on cook of the day.
and rice. Hehe.
Everyone in the house got different specialties and signature dishes. People say the ways one cook reflects their personality.
CS - He loves chicks. So does his dishes. Famous for chicken, best with tandoori, soysauce and sweet sour chicken. Especially his tandoori, memang superb already. Got chance must try. =)
James - A stronghold catholics, honest and trustworthy. His dishes always very old days grandmother style. Never too oily, taste just nice. Signature dishes: Ginger chicken. Potato salad with tuna.
Pei - New dishes discoverer. She reminds me of my mum seriously. Always add this add that, end up come out become nice new dish. Haha. All rounder in the house. All sorts of food, if she tries it, probably the next day you will see her start making. She can even amaze us with mee hun kuey.
Nick - People always say beautiful people makes nice dessert. This hongkee's in charge of our house desserts department ranging from banana toffee, tiramisu, cheese cakes... all sorts.
Matt - BEing a multitalented person who masters more than 5 languages and is currently picking up more, plays well in all sort of sports ranging from golf to pingpong, his dishes resembles him alot. Pasta with one layer of ham on top and one layer of vege at the bottom. All in one. Easy and nutritious.
Me - Vege department and seafood department. Brocolli and fish are my favourite. No oily styles generally. Avoid sharing of saliva.
Trend of the house: If we ever discovered a new dish and if the house like it, then sorry seems to be to the inventor already. It will continually get demanded and due to public pressure, the inventor will have no choice but still need to cook it even though it's not his/her day of duty. Until we all jelak with it! Hahaha. And after that perhaps like 3 or 4 months later when we are not jelak anymore, we will think of it's best-ness again. However, something is weird. It's like no one can ever get the taste right again, not even the cook him/herself. So we normally just abandoned it.
Hehe. Had Nick's tiramisu today. So yummy. Luv it to bits. Got his recipe already. Gotta try do it next time when he isn't around. Jenn's cranberry muffins are good too. It's sour so I like it. Feel good living with all these people and get pampered with all the fine desserts. =)
1 comment:
xiao yan! i think your descriptions of all of us are great and accurate. reading what you've written makes me feel so lucky i'm staying with all of you, really get pampered with fine cuisine among other things to say the least! :D
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