Grandma's Big Day

There is this one day I told my Mom that I missed my maternal grandma's buffet style popiah that we used to have it once awhile. Then Mom and aunts started to plan for a gathering as grandma's birthday was around the corner. If you ask me, I wouldn't know when was my grandma's birthday, all they know is the Lunar birthday.

So, here we go!

You know, it is RARE to see me preparing food and more RARE when it comes to cooking

I'm kitchen-dumb!

Since everybody look busy preparing stuff, I helped to cut the beacon and tofu

This is fun (jakun-ing)

First round of makan!

Those are plates of ingredient for the popiah that you can choose and make on your own

There are sweet sauce, beacon, taugeh, mangkuang, tofu, long bean, eggs, chili and grandma's specialty - PEANUTS!

Other side dishes are mantau bun (the white color one in the picture) eat with chicken rendang, hard boiled egg (the red eggs for birthday), self-made yong tau fu and roasted pork

Get to customize my own popiah

With lots of sweet sauce and peanuts!

Step to step of my customized popiah

Ta-dah!

The master of popiah

My cousin, came all the way from KL to attend this gathering and celebration

Dessert after popiah

I had 2 popiah, a few rendang-ed chicken, orange juice

Then, here come the coffee jelly

I feel like eating non STOP at this moment

When the prosperity buns were out, everyone start to flash their camera and phones

The bun was filled with kaya paste

Yummylicious after heating!

We were guessing how many little buns were hidden inside the big prosperity buns

I guessed 8, and I was wrong

There was 10 inside and 13 outside

23 is the total, I don't get it why this is the total

Here comes to star of the day!

All thanks for having Secret Recipe in Segamat, which is kind of BIG for small town people here

White Chocolate Macadamia

This is the real STAR of the day

Yours truly's grandma!

Celebrating her 79th birthday (following Lunar calendar) with all her children and grandchildren (except for another 1 of my cousin and my brother)

#1 Birthday song

#2 Making wish

#3 Blowing off the candles

# Take 1!

Some of the children and grandchildren

# Take 2!

Love