Carla’s Birthday
Posted on August 25, 2006 by Ching under Flickr, Food and Drink, Life.
Carla’s birthday was a blast. I meant to blog about it sooner but I’ve been busy since school has started. I’m in class every night except for Fridays. Of course, Friday night is poker night so my schedule is super tight.
But I digress.. We spent eight hours over there without even realizing it. Paul cooked a magnificent Thai feast. It was a three-course meal fit for a queen. I hope Carla felt like a queen because Paul slaved himself in the kitchen for over eight hours cooking.
He made three different appetizers with matching sauces. There was chicken satay, spring rolls and eggrolls. I was full almost before the main course. It was challenging to save room because everything was so delicious.
Paul made four main dishes: a cashew chicken dish, beef mussman, something like mongolian beef and chicken pad thai. Everything was cooked to perfection. He even garnished them!
For dessert, he baked a delicious chocolate cake and served sweet sticky rice with ripe mango slices. We call the sweet rice biko in Tagalog. I’d never met American people who ate that stuff before.. I found out that it’s actually Carla’s favorite. It was strange being in a room full of American biko eaters.
Of course, Brian was dying to get a piece of the chocolate cake. He didn’t really care much for the biko and he’s never really liked mangoes. He tried it, but he is your average unadventurous American guy so he didn’t really like it that much. Now the chocolate cake he could’ve eaten all by himself. He was polite though, and only had one slice.
It was great to meet Carla’s friends and also her adorable dogs Chewie and Endo. They are the most well-behaved dogs in the world. I love them.
We ended up playing some games after dinner. I played Parcheesi for the first time and won. That was fun. Jeff, Carla’s friend who drove in from Colorado, brought his poker chip set so we got to play some poker. Brian and I left around 2 am because we are not used to staying up so late anymore. Bobbi said that they actually kept playing until about 4 am.
Paul really did an amazing job with dinner. Jeff actually commented that he made all the other men look bad. It’s one dinner party that won’t soon be forgotten for sure.
[ NOTE: Paul, the person who created the delicious Thai feast, is Australian. ]
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