Brisbane, QLD


Thursday, July 18, 2019

A FUN DINNER

Every month our village administration put on a dinner for the residents. Each dinner has a different theme. This month it was a Japanese dinner. The reason being a group of villagers went to Japan for a  short holiday. We didn't go because we had been before. Anyway the chef cooked two lovely dishes for an alternate drop. There are 80 people for dinner.
For dinner we had MISO SALMON on SHIRATAKI NOODLES with FINE VEGETABLES. TERIYAKI CHICKEN BREAST & RAMEN.GREEN TEA CAKE with YOGURT WASABI ICE CREAM, SWEET MANGO AND FRUIT COMPOTE for dessert.







Some residents spent time making origami table decorations.

We had a Japanese guest speaker and a demonstration on how to wear a yukata and obi. CEO and two staff members were the models and two residents volunteered to help by following the expert's instruction.

The finished dress called a yukata or summer kimono. Karen on the left is the village manager. Dana on the right is the office manager next to her is our CEO and owner of the village Chiou See. The Japanese lady in black did the demonstration.

Some residents dressed up too.

The high school students who came to help the chef and to do the serving. They are catering students.

Some of the group that travelled to Japan as well as some high school students who help the chef and their teacher and the guest speaker.

19 comments:

  1. Hello, the dinner and themed activities sound like fun. The food looks delicious! Happy Thursday, enjoy your day! Have a happy weekend ahead.

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  2. That looks like so much fun! I love Japanese food!

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  3. What a great idea. I like the fact that the theme had a link to a trip that residents had taken. The food looks delicious.

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  4. Oh, you do have fun there, don't you? The food looks delicious, beautifully presented (and photographed!)

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  5. A nice idea for you all to get together for a meal like that. I've still never photographed a meal prior to eating it though I sometimes remember about half way through!

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  6. Sounds like lots of fun. Yum yum. Hope all is well, t'other Diane

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  7. Diane, this definitely looks fun and the food delicious … lovely series of photographs.

    All the best Jan

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  8. It does look like a very fun event and the food looks amazing.

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  9. Sounds as if you all had a wonderful evening. A lot of chatter know doubt.
    Lovely to see the photo.
    The food look rather good.

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  10. I'm so glad you shared this even with us, it looks like it was wonderful!

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  11. wow this looks beautiful! i loved this!

    Jadieegosh

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  12. A great get-together!!! The meal looked 5-star and the demonstration would have interested me very much. Super idea to get the culinary students involved too. The whole evening looked fantastic!

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  13. This does look like a fun, delicious, and beautiful dinner.

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  14. Thanks for sharing the wonderful photos. Looks like so much fun and the food looks really delicious. Looks like something we might plan to do one day. Have a wonderful upcoming weekend.
    World of Animals

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  15. What a fun event. The food looks wonderful and so do all the friends to share it.

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  16. You do have such fun events where you live, Diane. Unfortunately, the apartment facility we live in doesn’t have any community event exceot at the holidays.

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  17. It looks such healthy food and I'm sure was delicious. A lot of effort was put into the fun dinner and the ladies look beautiful in their summer kimonos.

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  18. that looks like so much fun, and the kimonos are beautiful.

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  19. What a fun event... great way for the travelers to share what they saw and learned .... Food looks delicious.. Christmas in July (in the post above) looked a good opportunity to get together for a nice meal and some laughs, although I agree with you that one Christmas a year ought to be enough, no matter what the season.

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