Malaysian Food Feast: Cooking for 200 people is not an easy job..especially 200 HUNGRY Malaysians. *wipes brow*
The amount of food prepared and the HUGE pots of FOOD which we started preparing for a day before...(27th Feb)
Another evidence of the HUGE amount of food prepared.
the EATERS.... insert *scary musics*..hehehe
The cutters/cooks/servers/crowd control/performaers during the feast. The commitee members:Irene, Sinyi, Me
HUGE sigh of relief that the whole adventure which started in November ended finally with a BANG!!! Thankfully.. *smiles* Started coming up with the menu in November and so started the flurry of requests to bring food back from Malaysia during the Michaelmas break. In January, it intensified with the search for the puuuurr-fect venue which is a total headache. places that we wanted at the dates that we wanted were unavailable and there were lots of moments of panic over MSN and email...before we finally got the BESTEST venue ever. New Hall with the fanstatic kitchens, wonderful helpers, tables, chairs and tabl clothe prepared for our usage all without a penny.. *rubbing hands with glee*
Well, we couldn't risk feeding people with our amateur cooking w/o testing them out first and the ex-comm was the test subjects..the verdict? the food is dee-licious!! with better confidence but still with much trepidation, we started to prepare cooking for 200 people. There are 13 dishes that we are preparing for and there were 10 of us in the committee cooking. well, you can do the maths..
It was an exciting, exciting week and even more exciting weekend. Started off the week with the ordering food from Sains, walking up to New Hall to check the kitchens and having last minute adjustments with amt of food/ppl/ticketing.
Saturday: carrying HUGE-ASS pots from the halal shop and SHIT-loads of meat to New Hall. the dicing/slicing/marinating/washing/agar-agar cooking started and ended with a silenced kompang practice. *wistful smile*
Sunday: THE day.. pumped full with coffee, raring to go!! started to cook..cook...cook..cook...in batches. adrenaline rush nearing the feast, rushing around transporting/arranging food/gathering the workers around. Loads of early guest helped out. *bows and blows kisses* you all have my eternal gratitude for the many many times of re-arranging the food around the loooong table. 7.45pm; the doors are open! Before the EATERS started, we had a kompang performance with a slight twist..*grins* rmb the Malaysian Idol guard advertisement?
YiJin: "Young Man, What are you doing here?"
Yi Jin: "Young Man." Kompang accompaniment.
The song continues [I'll get the lyrics sometime and post it up.. it's quite hilarious!!] and ended with " Mari Makan". Then began the non-stop serving, running around to get things done. quite easily, the food was finished quite soon even the lamb kurma and chi kut teh in the HUGE-ASS pots.. *awed at the eating ability of Malaysians, stands respected* and there were lots of pats on the back on the wonderful quality of food....*cat with cream smile*
hahahs..maybe we are all closeted world-class chefs..*arches eyebrow*
well, we do have to Thank Brahim, A1 and Adabi for their wonderful contributions.. *grins*
It was tiring and exhausting. But, it was fun, exciting.. err...well perhaps not the washing up part but you get what I mean..*wink*
glad..
