Christmas Eve In Singapore

"We will be having turkey for Christmas..." Those were my dad's initial words when he came back to Penang a few weeks ago. And we will do it in Singapore for a change... how did we manage to come up with that idea? Thanks to dad again. He wanted the entire family member to be in Singapore for Christmas this year around. I had to scramble for flight tickets at first and after all the calculations, it would costs a whooping total of RM2500 return flight to Singapore for 6. There's no way in hell I am going to let Air Asia suck our wallets dry for that.

I came up with a brilliant idea and that idea was to drive all the way down to Singapore which we manage to save up almost a thousand bucks from doing so. The ride takes about 8 hours in total from Penang to Singapore starting out at 5.30am. After dropping off my dear back home in JB, we headed into the Singapore Customs around 3pm. Because of the long queue just to get the cash card (It's mandatory for all foreign cars entering Singapore), we only got home around 5.30pm. Just in time for dinner!

The Christmas home delivered meal costs about SGD$400 and the meal were actually intended for 15 people. We just had to eat up whatever we could muster into our stomach and as for the dishes... it has never tastes any better! Probably due to the reason of we skipping lunch on that day.

Dad bought a Hokkaido Snow Crab from Hong Kong which was cooked immediately after opening it from the ice box.

And this is how it looks like when its done. Don't worry!!! The white stuff on top of the crab is just the scales... totally harmless.

Dad did all the preparations when the food was delivered to home while mom were preparing the glasses in the kitchen.

Dinner awaits after all the preparations and arrangements.

Dad waits patiently as everyone has a run through the shower after a long ride south.

As for me, I am all geared up and ready to pounce on the food!

The so called Shepherds Pie which turns out to be extremely tasty.

The Lobster Salad tastes really good as it's whipped up with lots of thousand island sauce.

The Caesar Salad which I lacked of touching after tasting the all time yummy Lobster Salad.

The tantalizing and succulent prawns.

The vegetables that's to be included with the turkey.

The Christmas Turkey... before the garnish.

And after the garnish. Looks awesome eh?

The meal wouldn't turn out as nice without a few bottles of red wine. These nice red wines were courtesy of Aunt Tsai's family in return for the stay over at our home in Singapore about a week ago.

It's not the first time that dad carves up a turkey. If my memory serves me right, the last time he carved a turkey was almost 8 years ago also here in Singapore.

The tender white meat of the Turkey. Oh! La! La!

For the dessert, we had Christmas Log Cake... looks pretty neat I'd say.

The cake wasn't that sweet and the looking into the inside, it swirls made it looked like a real log.

We didn't manage to finish what we ordered that night and it turns out to be our following day's breakfast as well. Posting all these Christmas meal made me going all hungry right now. Merry Christmas to my fellow readers and I hope you guys and gals had as much fun as I did with my family. Ho! Ho! Ho!