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Easy Entertaining

Kin — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 23:22:43 +0000

After a long day at the NY Renaissance Festival on Saturday, me and my friends were hungry, and we did not feel like dining out. So we decided to buy groceries and dined-in instead.

I find entertaining guests to be quite fun, but when I do it, I like to plan the events in advance. This time, it was rather spontaneous, but it wasn’t difficult to think of what to cook, as me and my friends already had something in mind. So what’s my point? Always keep some recipes in your head. I think it’s important to know how to cook a few simple dishes well, after all, you’ll never know when you might be entertaining guests.

~ Kin

The Weekend’s Over, Back To Work We Go!

Kin — Tue, 27 May 2008 23:37:26 +0000

I spent Memorial Day weekend in Lakeville, Connecticut with a bunch of friends on a “camping” trip. We had access to sleeping mats, indoor plumbing, and showers, so it wasn’t exactly a real camping trip, but it was good times none-the-less. I don’t think I’m ready for bear attacks…yet. Nothing says Memorial Day like a big group BBQ. The menu? Chicken, pork chops, burgers, and hot dogs. Did anyone remember what happened between 1am and 3am on Sunday night?

Chicken wings

Awesome burgers

Roasting marshmallows over the campfire. hotness.

The cheeseburger on a stick. All hail the mighty Burger King!

Happy Birthday Dave! The Red Velvet Birthday Cake

Kin — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 22:45:34 +0000

A surprise birthday party was thrown for a friend of mine on Saturday night. I think he had a minor heart attack when we all yelled surprise right after he turned on the lights. The birthday cake was the three-layer 9-inch Red Velvet cake from the well-known Magnolia Bakery in New York City. I thought it was a little dry, but the frosting balanced it out very well. While I was cutting the cake for everyone, some person asked me what it was made of. I told him it was some sort of chocolate/cocoa base w/ red food coloring. He didn’t believe me because it was so red. I should have told him it was made out of cow blood or something.

~ Kin

The Birthday Party

Kin — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 01:47:03 +0000

I had friends over on Saturday to celebrate my 27th birthday party. Lots of good people, lots of food, and lots of wine. You can’t ask for more than that. It was my first time preparing and cooking food for fifteen people. My friend Boon came over to help out and I could not have accomplished it without him. My biggest worry of planning out the menu was whether or not the menu I decided upon would be the right type of food to serve my friends, after all, I didn’t know much about their taste in food.

Images: Kin, Bo Han

I Do! You may now eat the food!

Boon — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 03:15:52 +0000

The invitation says to arrive at the restaurant at 7pm. The time was 7.35pm and the sign in cloth was nowhere to be found. The cameraman and photographer went for dinner. Guests were arriving and could not sign in nor give their gifts because the person in charged of collection was late. It was a chaotic and the loud music played by the DJ did not help the situation. But in the end, it all worked out and the party was on!

It was my brother’s wedding and it was held at our favorite Chinese Restaurant, Ocean Jewel Seafood Restaurant (http://www.yelp.com/biz/ocean-jewel-seafood-restaurant-flushing) located at 13330 39th Ave Flushing, NY 11354. This place has good dim sum and their dinner dishes are highly recommended.

My brother, Kin (he has the same name as foodiefixation’s blogger – Kin Lee) is getting married to a beautiful lady, Isabelle. The banquet served tons of Chinese delicacies such as Abalone, Shark Fin Soup, Jumbo Shrimp, geoduck( prounouced Gooey- Duck – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoduck), Lobster, Squab, Scallop. The dinner also included fried rice, longevity noodle, sweet sticky rice, sweet dumplings, red bean soup and of course the wedding cake.

The lobster dish

The Wedding Cake from http://www.enchantedweddingcakes.com

The cost per table was about $1500 and I thought that was a little too pricey. In the end I guess it is worth it because it is my brother and sister in law’s happiest day of their lives. You can’t really put a price tag on love unless you’re Britney and K-Fed

Apart from the food, the wedding was filled with fun, songs, slideshows and dancing. There was also alcohol, how can alcohol be missing from a wedding banquet right? We had 2 bottles of red wine, 1 bottle of XO and unlimited Heineken for each table.

The next big thing that our family is hoping for would either be my brother and Isabelle having triplets (topic of the night between the family members) or my sister’s marriage. She has been with Thomas for the past 6 years now….it is just a matter of when.

The Groom and his best men

The Bride and her bride’s maids