My sister and her hubby came to visit from Sydney – which meant FAMILY FEAST! We all got together at my parents’ home for some serious eating. Mum made a hantu curry with pork belly and green beans. You are supposed to use snake beans in this dish, but the snake beans were really expensive this time around – so Mum used green beans instead. I think this was most people’s favourite dish of the evening. I loved the layers of fat on every tender piece of pork.
My younger sister Juji sliced the Japanese egg tofu and arranged it on a plate. The tofu was then topped with chopped fresh spring onions and coriander, and fried garlic and oil. The tofu was silky and soft and tasted wonderful eaten with the fragrant garnish.
Juji cooked a few of the dishes on the wok burner on the barbecue outside on the patio. This was the stir-fried broccoli, cauliflower and straw mushrooms.
Lots of sauce to spoon over my rice! :D
Juji also cooked the sweet and sour chicken on the barbecue wok burner.
In the dish were chicken thigh pieces, carrot, red capsicum, celery, cucumber, baby corn spears and pineapple. The sweet and sour sauce was delicious, the vegetables crisp and the chicken succulent. This was my favourite dish of the night, the pork hantu curry a close second.
Mum cooked a small dish of winter melon with vermicelli and dried shrimp. The dried shrimp (har mai) gives the dish a distinctive (some might think smelly) aroma and flavour.
Mum had cooked a kangaroo vindaloo curry – she heated it up in the wok on the barbie as well. It smelled great.
I don’t eat much red meat these days, but I did have some kangaroo curry. It was too good to pass up.
I loaded my plate with a little of everything.
Juji warned us to leave room for dessert which she’d made – a Nutella cheesecake!
The Nutella cheesecake was quickly sliced and served… by two people!
The cake was sweet and smooth and creamy – a lovely way to end the meal.
Jac was away in Melbourne for a conference during this time, so she missed this meal. Oh, don’t worry – I made sure I showed her the photos. :)
I'm TFP, a food blogger from Perth, Western Australia.
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Hey FP… I do love your family gatherings – hope all of ‘em are well. Been a long time since I dropped by and said Gudday – my apologies on that! I’ve been away in remote areas and the internet is a hard thing to have working well enough to upload MY blog – let alone yours mate. I think it has a little electronic heart-attack each time it trips over the delicious food you take snaps of!!! That and the stuff you mob prep for each other… I’m keeping the XO away from here – she might just get demanding!!! ;-) All the best mate…
Yummy food as usual. I’m drooling right now. :)
OMG! Is there a recipe for that cheesecake? Please please please please pretty please?! I need to wipe the drool from my face soon!
recipe, pleaseee?
my friends would love you forever!
amazing food, though, as usual.
The curry dishes {kangaroo!} are especially appealing to me, particularly as potatoes are included. ;-) Juji did a superb job on that tofu dish; ordinarily tofu wouldn’t appeal to me at all, but I would have loved to take a taste of that! It’s a very beautiful dish, looks professional. You all sure put a lot of thought and love into the family feasts — wonderful!
The Nutella cheesecake…I’m drooling. Love Nutella, love cheesecake. *sigh*
“Jac was away in Melbourne for a conference during this time, so she missed this meal.”
I feel your pain, Jac!
Looks absolutely delish!! Dying for the tofu dish right now… Man, if I lived with your family, I’d be overfed. Poor Jac, missing out..
Btw, why is it hantu curry? Isn’t hantu malay for ghost? Haha!
Love your family gatherings as that means family feasts! Everything looks delicious. Can you tell me where you would buy the japanese tofu? (I am in Perth ) I love it but only ever get to eat it when I order it from a chinese takeaway.
would love to have the recipe for the cheesecake looks great !!!!
the sweet and sour chicken looks really really good! home cooked sweet and sour dishes appeal to me much more than the flouro-orange/red ones you get from chinese takeaway stalls.
You really must stop with these amazing cheesecakes before I hop a plane to come and live with Pixel. I mean, I did see that there were two pots, and I’m sure I can fit in the other, so’s long as you feed me bits of cheesecake and chicken and potato and pizza…and as you can see, I rebutted with a cheesecake of my own with today’s post…so there!
oh god, how i envy you. like you, i live to eat, rather than eat to live. lol.
though i’m not fond of sweets or cakes, that nutella cheesecake just took my breath away. so mythical, i never thought a food like that ever existed! :O
I’ve been meaning to use up this giant jar of Nutella that I have. Any chance you could get the recipe to the cheesecake? It looks absolutely amazing.
The kangaroo curry and winter melon salad look YUMMY!!! I want some too.
What a feast to the eye.
Nutella cheesecake? First time I read about this, looks absolutely decadent!
What’s pork hantu curry?? “hantu” as in the Malay word for ghost? Again, love love love your family feast blogposts! :) And hell yeh the cheesecake looks totally awesome!! If your sister doesn’t mind sharing the recipe, that would be fantastic!
I can’t decide if this is my favourite meal of the financial year or not. Everything is to die for. But what caught me was the jap tofu. Mouth literally started watering…
Hey Belongum,
Great to hear from you! Hope you and the XO are well.
Guys,
I’m trying to track down the Nutella cheesecake recipe.
For those who’ve asked about the “hantu” curry, yes, it is hantu as in Malay for “ghost”. Not sure why it’s called hantu curry. Will ask mum about it next time I talk to her.
Ranee,
We buy the Japanese tofu from asian supermarkets. It’s usually in the fridge with other tofu products, Chinese leaf vegetables and cans of F&N Sarsi and A&W Root Beer! It comes in a sausage sort of shape ready for slicing.
What is the recipe for the nutella CAKE OMG DROOOOOOOOOOL
OH AND CAN I PLEASE HAVE THE RECIPE FOR THE HANTU CURRRRRRRRRRRRY!
I’ve just found your site today… bookmarked now, by the way, lol. I have to know, any luck on the Nuttella cheesecake recipe? I’m pretty sure I could implode worlds with that desert, it looks devilishly awesome!