A little bit…

This is a continuation of my previous post – the bloggers’ get-together. We had all that food  for dinner and eating up all that food would have filled everyone to the brim already but you would not believe what irresistable desserts they brought along with them.

Quay Po made these Asian Food Channel-acclaimed Hokkaido orange cupcakes with whisky vanilla custard filling…

…which were simply out of these world! Of late, I’ve seen a lot of people blogging about Hokkaido cakes, Hokkaido ice cream, Hokkaido mille crepe and I really wonder whether they know what or where exactly Hokkaido is but nonetheless, I really wanted to try them and my wish came true that night, thanks to Quay Po.

She also brought along these macarons with kamquat, chocolate, chestnut, cointreau fillings…

…which were nice too but a bit too sweet for me. I loved the ones with butter chestnut filling that she gave me when I was in KL in December last year more – I could finish off at least half a dozen of those at one go but I remember I had to eat each of them very very slowly savouring each nibble, one at a time. They were really that good, I tell you!

Ping brought her pineapple jam tarts…

…and they were excellent! I wonder if she makes them for sale or not – I certainly would like to order a few tubs to take home.

These were homemade chocolates from Shannon…

They were very different from those usual ones available in the shops. I could even detect some cinnamon in them. Gee!!! These ladies are really great – they seem to be able to come out with things that are really very unique and special.

Jocel brought this acar (pickle) that her mum made…

…but I only tried a spoonful and if you ask me now how it tasted, I would have to say that I don’t really know. There was so much food to eat at the dinner and I had a really heavy lunch that afternoon and an equally heavy breakfast in the morning…so much so that I was literally bursting at the seams and thus, it would not be fair to give any comments on anything that I had that night actually as in my bloated state at that point in time, it would be quite impossible to make a fair and accurate judgement.

Yee Ling brought some cream puffs and she even gave me some separately…

– you can see them to the extreme right in the above photograph. My friend, Ivan, dropped by the hotel to see me that last night there to say hello and I shared those with him and despite their being a bit hard as I had kept them all day in the fridge, it certainly blew him away. They were so very nice and he wanted to know where I got them from.

Yee Ling also gave me a packet of walnut cookies and smallkucing gave me that very same thing that day when I arrived in KL . Gee, it certainly must be the in thing, so very popular! I found them very nice, not sweet and very fragrant and I think the rough texture was the result of the crushed walnut so very generously used in the making.

Jocel gave me the coconut biscuits from Sungai Lembing, Pahang (left) and the sesame seed coated ones…and I am really  quite lost as to who gave me the chocolates in the middle of the photograph. Was it you as well, Yee Ling or was it somebody else? Maybe it was from Peng whom I met for the first time when she came to Sibu with Quay Po around the middle of this year?

These came from Quay Po…

…that I know for sure – a designer t-shirt that she brought back all the way from the US, a box of Italian biscotti and packets of herbs for cooking chicken and for bak kut teh.

Last but not least, little sprouts brought me these…

…tambun biscuits and Hakka dried beef.

I don’t know if I’ve missed out anything or anybody…and if I have, do accept a thousand apologies from me! There were simply too many things and too many people and my head was spinning like a record and the fact that this old man’s memory is failing him certainly did not help that much. But I really must extend my sincere thanks to everybody once again for taking the time off and the trouble (and forking out the money) to join the dinner, for bringing all the things to share and also to give to me – I truly am greatly indebted to you all. Do hop over to Sibu sometime so that I can have the chance to reciprocate and return the generous gesture and warm hospitality. Thank you, thank you, one and all…