Hot Pot
I went to my friend’s house few weeks ago and helped her baby sit her 3 year old while she went to school……mumu loves to pose and plays pretending…hehe…very cute, isn’t she? she might become an entertainer when she’s grown up…
Amusing thing happened right after my friend left for school, mumu told me she wanted to poo…I thought, oh that’s a piece of cake…since I often play with her and I know that she can clean up by herself after she pee….
She asked me to wait by her side when she poo, she sang songs for me, she even “created” some songs about me and Rico, very adorable…. =)
Then mumu asked me, " Caroline, do you want to look at my poo?" uh oh.. I asked her……"Why do you want me to look at it?" She said, "my mom always check on my poo…" okay….
I will not go into the detail, but after she’s done, she asked me to clean up after her….I have never in my life clean up a baby’s poo, let alone a 3-years old’s poo…so, mumu is my first…haha….and she’s a very nice girl, after I was done cleaning her up, she said thank you to me….
Then we played for a while, mumu showed me some dance movement that she has been learning from her dance class…then, after Rico came from his work, my friend and her husband got home too, we started to prepare dinner together…they have been inviting us for hot pot dinner for quite some time but we never had time to match our schedule…finally, that day we can meet and had a great time having hot pot while enjoying each other’s company…and it’s a perfect day to have a hot pot too, because it’s very cool and cloudy, while just few days previously were hot and humid…
So, here is how my friend made her "infamous" hotpot…
First, she sautéed garlic, green onion and ginger, and add the chicken with bones to make the seasoning base for our hot pot…
Then, she sliced some bamboo shoots, clean up the octopus and slicing some mushrooms and tofu…
We had two types of hot pot, red and white base, the red one is hot and the white one is not hot…I love the spicy ones best….
On our individual bowl, we put chopped garlic, mixed of soybean paste, sesame oil, vinegar and cilantro for our dipping sauce….
As shown on the pics below, we had 2 different kinds of mushrooms, 3 types of tofu, octopus, tripes (babat), and also LAMB….yes, I never liked lamb before, but this one is great, didn’t smell at all…yumm…
Overall, I would rate our dinner 9 out of 10 scale…it was great….we also had beer along with the hot pot, it was a perfect combination… =P
