yvonne's: Dinner with French

It was really an enjoyable evening with the 2 French girls that we befriended here! One of them is my flatmate (Morwenna), and the other is her friend (Lucie), who is also in the same faculty as her. They are in the forestry or "paper" department. Interesting right? We dont have forest in singapore.. so, we dont have such a course in nus.

I initially wanted this dinner because i wanted to know how Morwenna cook real pasta. The pasta that she cooked always have this smell that is really tempting. So i asked her if we could cook a meal together, and she invited Lucie along.

Morwenna wanted to taste something Chinese and she sounded excited when we were talking about it on msn (we talk on msn sometimes even though we are just next door... weird right?) So in the end, daryl and i decided to cook something in return for them since they are teaching us how to cook tasty pasta. And this is how it ended up...

During the dinner, we talked about our family, our names etc. And I found out that "Yvonne" and "Eugene" (my brother's name) are actually french names! Ha... (mummy.. u like french people huh). According to them, "yvonne" is a name that reminds them of old people, like a grandmother or some 50 plus year old women. Lucie also showed me through internet some places of interest to go in France when we travel. And surprisingly, both of them will be leaving Finland on the 20 May(same day as us)! And Lucie also said that she would show us around Paris for a day, because she really like the city. Yeah, we have a tourguide for a day! They also asked us about Singapore, and all that we could mention was the esplanade, sentosa and the high rise buildings. It is so different from them... they showed me pictures of nature, the mountains near their school, the parachutes etc. And we were laughing at how wikipedia described durian and how much i love durian. (they didnt know about this fruit)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Durian

"its odor is best described as pig-shit"

"Comparisons have been made with the civet, sewage, stale vomit, skunk spray, and used surgical swabs"

and something about sacrifising self-respect after eating it...

Our dinner

We had pasta with brocoli, mushrooms and fish (something like tuna but it is in bigger pieces) and they mixed salt, pepper, milk, cream and curry powder to make the sauce for the pasta.

Fry the onions.

With butter. Salted. (Morwenna loves salted butter)

Add mushrooms.

Boil pasta with brocoli.

Put onions, mushrooms and brocoli into sauce and cook with fish.

And this is what u get.

Its really GoOD.

And then it was our turn...

Fried rice and bah ku teh.

We put chicken floss on top of the rice...

Oh.. and I burnt plastic while cooking. I added the rock honey into the soup and left it near the stove so the plastic got burnt and the whole kitchen stinked. We had to open the window to let the poisonous gas out.. i was so paiseh.

Morwenna was very amazed at how chicken can turn into floss that looks like the PULP that she made from trees! Pulp and chicken floss really resemble each other. Really. Should have taken a photo of her pulp.

And then we had green bean soup for dessert. They have never tasted sweet soup before and I think Lucie didn't like it... but Morwenna finished the whole bowl that we served her! Good girl, Morwenna. and she ate 2 plates of fried rice too.