The F1 cuisine club is still the best club a girl like me can be in. Although I must admit, it's not always that great when you are trying to keep the ever expanding waist-line under control, but a little treat once in a while can't be that bad can it?
The Chinese F1 is always a favourite of mine. I've always had a bit of a soft spot for anything Asian, because when I was younger (for some strange reason) people thought I was Asian. When people think you're a different nationality or culture, I suppose it creates a bit of interest in you. Instead of being annoyed when random Asian tourists stopped me in the Kruger National Park when I was an primary school, or being told by Asian visitors that I reminded them of their daughter, I became fascinated by it.
I began learning a bit more about Chinese and Japanese culture, I gained an interest in Asian cuisine, Chinese, Japanese and Thai. For a short time in my life, if you asked me to cook supper, the only thing I was willing to cook for you was sweet and sour chicken/pork or stir fries.
I suppose because of that stage, that's why I love the Chinese F1.
This year, The Future-Sister-In-Law and her Boyfriend were the team who catered, and they are making a name for themselves and a team to be reckoned with.
The spread which they served up to us was as follows:
The Starter - Tempura prawns and vegetable spring rolls, with sweet chili sauce.
The Main - Sweet and sour chicken with Asian coleslaw, stir fried noodles, and basmati rice
Dessert - Fortune cookies and white rabbit sweets
The starter was perfectly crispy, and as expected, both the spring roll and prawn went fantastically with the sweet chili sauce.
The main was very yummy, with the Asian coleslaw something refreshingly different and textured.
Pudding was a great end after two filling first courses, and fortune cookies are always fun. We all insisted that one another share their fortunes, and laughed at the ones which sounded either quite truthful, or completely out of character.
All in all, another extremely successful day.
