My friend, Yudi - an Indonesian Chinese living in Jakarta will be driving back to his father home in Palembang for reunion dinner - that is about 12-14 hrs drive. Wow! what patience he has...
Around this time in China, it will be the biggest migration of people the world has ever seen -around more than 10 million people are going back home for their reunion dinner. Because of this year's bad winter storm in China, many travellers are stranded at train and bus stations. This happen to be China's worst winter storms in 50 years. At Guangzhou station alone, more than 200,000 travellers are stranded with no hope in sight of making the audous journey back home for the reunion dinner.
In Singapore, 2007 has been a good and prosperous year - people are having bigger bonuses and are willing to splurge on their Chinese New Year reunion dinner. This year most expensive reunion dinner at $5,888 a table offered by Hua Ting restuarant in Orchard Hotel.
This nine-course meal will be prepared by the Hotel's award winning master chef Chan Kwok and boasts of top-grade ingredients in its dishes.
- Live Australian lobster "lo hei" yu sheng
- Roasted golden suckling pig
- Double-boiled supreme hai fu shark's fin in shark bone cartilage soup
- Sauteed sea whelk with seasoned greens and preserved olive in golden cup
- Braised Australian dried abalone (10 heads) with top grade fish maw and fa cai
- Steamed live Pacific mouse groupa or live double-headed wrasse so mei in superior soya sauce
- Braised noodle with fresh scallop in XO sauce
- Double-boiled bird's nest with rock sugar
- Chinese petit four
- Costing: Singapore dollars 5,888 for one table
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