This year, instead of serving updated Chinese fares or the regular cookies (everyone's so sick of these during the festive season), I've decided to go unorthodox - serve them cheese. It's very un-Chinese to have cheese but I suppose globalisation has somehow made everyone aware of what the other side of the globe is eating habitually...
A selection of cheese available from Malaysian supermarkets: a Brillat-Savarin which is an extremely "onctueux" or creamy cheese that started life as a 72% fat content (!), a camembert, a Le Russot - another well ripened cheese with a mild taste and a peculier rusty crust, an 18 months-Comté that I brought back from France for some textural difference, a Danish blue cheese and a cream cheese Boursin with garlic and herbs (my favourite though in France this is never considered a real cheese).
a tray of goodies to help with the tasting...
Homemade chocolate truffles.
Oven-baked Tiger prawns - really huge ones given by a friend (about 400g each). They were marinated with herbes de Provence and oven baked with some garlic oil and Ementhal cheese.
Another savoury dish: slow braised pork belly in white wine.
a simple salad with vinaigrette
a Tiramisu to end...
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