Two weeks ago, RL, a good friend, called to let me know that we would attend a celebration of our friend Ah Sin Fatt, who had been honoured a Datukship. A BIG congratulations to him and his family!!
Since moving here 2 years ago, I frequently heard about friends' friends who were honoured with a Datukship. I was curious to find out more about the 'Datukship' - from sources I understand it is an an Award of Honour given by The Sultans and Head of States in Malaysia. I found these two rather interesting and informative sites:
http://datukmalaysia.blogspot.com/
http://thedandelions.wordpress.com/2008/10/18/to-be-a-datuk-debunking-the-myths-of-the-conventional-approach-of-attaining-such-titles/
Back to the celebration of our friend Ah Sin Fatt: We were to celebrate over a Chinese dinner at the Lucky Plaza at Seremban 2 @ 7.30pm. The menu:
Since moving here 2 years ago, I frequently heard about friends' friends who were honoured with a Datukship. I was curious to find out more about the 'Datukship' - from sources I understand it is an an Award of Honour given by The Sultans and Head of States in Malaysia. I found these two rather interesting and informative sites:
http://datukmalaysia.blogspot.com/
http://thedandelions.wordpress.com/2008/10/18/to-be-a-datuk-debunking-the-myths-of-the-conventional-approach-of-attaining-such-titles/
Back to the celebration of our friend Ah Sin Fatt: We were to celebrate over a Chinese dinner at the Lucky Plaza at Seremban 2 @ 7.30pm. The menu:
The appetizer: The lobster salad
It was empty! I missed out!! I was 20 minutes late!! That evening I could not find parking. The parking lot was jam packed - usually it is not a problem to find parking even on a busy evening. I wish somebody had warned me... you know, I had to walk more than 450 meter on a hot evening... I nearly died!!
Second course was a bowl of Herbal Fish Stomach soup aka Fish Maw soup with one scallop, one Chinese mushroom, one chicken wing and two cranberries. Friends explained that this soup would do me good if consumed while hot! Believe it or not, it it suppose to give you smoother skin and is an excellent source of collagen. Of course I did not want to miss out on having even more beautiful skin ;-) so I gobbled down the soup... very delicious!!
Third dish: a stirfried mixture of mushrooms, vegetables and pork shoulder
Fourth dish: steamed pomfret with light soy and spring onions. It was extremely fresh and sweet.
Very well done!
Fifth dish: Fresh fried Bok Choy
Sixth dish: Chinese fried rice with shrimps, peas and bacon. Quite delicious.
The last dish of the evening: the colorful fruit platter served nicely in bite-sized pieces. It included the purple dragonfruit, red watermelon, yellow mango and pale green rockmelon.
Local and guaranteed fresh!
Right after finishing the fruit platter, everyone around the table got up and started leaving. I was wondering what was going on that called for such a sudden departure... upon asking, I was told that dinner is done so it was time to go home!
And so I followed the crowd out the door... else I would be left sitting alone at the table! That was the end of the evening - the Chinese Malaysian way ;-)
Malaysia Boleh! Thank you very much.
