Steamboat (Part 2 - More preparation & More eating)

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Today we are celebrating two January babies birthday, Yaosheng and Lili. Yaosheng's birthday falls on the 22th (sorry that it was belated) and Lili's birthday falls on the 30th (eh..it was early). They are so smart or maybe my motive was too obvious that they could guess that I hosting a party for them when I sms them regarding their availability on saturday. This time around I could get Yihan and his wife-to-be, Joannah (don't know if I spell her name right) but can't get Kelward cause it's too last minute to him.

As usual, we bought a lot of food. There's flower crab, prawns, sotong, fishballs, pork, pig's liver, chicken, egg tofu, golden mushrooms, oyster mushrooms, shiitake mushrooms, sea cucumber, fish maw, cabbage and cockles. This time around there's only me and brother doing all the preparations. Lili and Hx came slightly early. So while waiting for the others to arrive, we play a short while of MJ. Ooo...brother's hands kept feeling "itchy". Wahaha. It's been a while since my home was filled with so many people. Woot. The feeling is just so fun and exciting.

Brother busy cutting up the cabbage.

And me? Hiding behind him washing the mushrooms.

Shiitake Mushrooms with a hole in the middle.

Oops...didn't do that on purpose when I took the stem out.

That's all of our mushrooms.

Golden mushrooms, oyster mushrooms, shiitake mushrooms.

I can tell you that the oyster mushrooms is gigantic.

For your ease of comparing, ta-dah.

The one on the left is the size we usually bought.

The one on the right is the Gigantic one bought from NTUC.

Drove to Pasir Panjang to buy crabs and cockles.

The flower crabs are so active. Ooo.

There's one even blowing out water. So naughty.

The paper on the door is suppose to be a template for the cake decoration.

But I printed the font too big. So let's not waste resources.

Playing MJ! Yeah~

Lili wanna take picture of the rat cause this year is the year of the rat.

Violently and gently opening up her present from me, dearest and brother.

We bought her two gifts. One is a mic design radio and the other is a giraffe pen and paper holder.

only managed to snap her with the giraffe pen and paper holder.

That's our crab ready to be cook.

Even Lili and Hx is amaze by the size of the mushroom. Lol.

That's our steamboat. Yum yum! *Hungry*

January Babies: Yaosheng and Lili

Our fast melting ice cream cake. Ooo.

Melting melting!~

They just cut the cake as it's a standard operation procedure.

But that's not how we are going to eat our cake.

We improvise along the way.

Since the cake is melting, we each have a spoon and eat from there.

Let's dig in. Yeah~

That's all of us. So fun!

Will have another gathering soon.

I also make two cards for the birthday babies. Hope they like it and enjoy themselves though it's a small party. I love the picture that all of us were in it. It's been quite a while since we have a picture all together. And something surprise us too. We didn't expect Yihan's wife-to-be, Joannah, to fit in so quickly. You go girl!~ Welcome to the gang.

*some of the pictures in this post are contributed by Yzanne aka Lili.