The main reason for our extra holiday trip to California was to see Ben's Granny who was visiting from Hawaii. It's a crazy/neat thing to see my little blond-haired Vera next to her Chinese great-grandmother! She turned 97 on New Year's Day and it was such a treat to be there for her birthday dinner...
All her favorites were served: chicken feet, longans ['dragon eye fruit'], fresh water chestnuts and a surprisingly [sorry, I'm always suspect of these things] yummy jello/cream cheese dessert. We also had some regular chicken parts, Rosie's delicious green papaya soup, Auntie Lettie's delicious pancit, and another amazing green papaya salad. It's really pretty cool to be part of this family and have been introduced to such wonderful culinary traditions.
Vera tried out the chopsticks on her own! She actually ate a good amount of noodles, shoveling them in just so. Pretty cute: all the aunties were quite pleased :)
2 comments:
The feast looks amazing...and I am so impressed with Vera's use of chopsticks!! Hooray.
you ARE so lucky. I wanted thai tonight with the hope of finding something papaya on the menu -but alas its quarter til midnight and jessica still isn't back from her call to the hospital -re:newborn baby. i guess it means the baby had to be taken into custody.... this is probably more appropriate for an email but i got going...
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