Need suggestions for food items for < 30 pax

[Jennifer]

Many thanks for the various suggestions.


Last Sept, I ordered a mini buffet for min. 20 pax from Eatz catering. The food was not well received and we ended up with lotsa leftover.

The asparagus wrap sounds a good idea.

I checked out Golden Pillow ytd, the website mentions to re-heat via microwave oven. If no microwave oven how to make hot?

Today’s has a receipe for tray bake curry chicken. Looks very easy to make. Basically it involves marinating the chicken pieces with the pre-mix curry mix overnight, then cut up potatoes, carrots, cauliflowers, dash with olive oil n salt, put inside a roasting tin with the chicken pieces on top, bake for 1 hour. No need for coconut milk or evaporated milk or yoghurt.

Qn is: does it taste good???

[Jennifer]

buds:

Got post cny for KSPs oso anot? :drool:

I always drooled over your meal descriptions. U organise one lah.

[Nebbermind]

If the elder lies are the more traditional in taste, they may prefer things like soon kueh, Sui Jin bao, non-fried tim sum such as Siew mai, har gao, mini bao (actually the famous ones always come in mini size :rotflmao: ). Young ones may enjoy thE diff types of puffs tim sum.


Finger food allow people to mingle around and chitchat. If cannot finish can also easy 打包.

A pot of braised pork belly/trotter/knuckle with chestnuts mushroom fatt choy...(quite a traditional cny dish in my family)...may also appeal to the older folks.

[cherrygal]

I attended a rich men’s lunch party before and as the rich men were all older folks, they actually got the servants to prepare a respectable Teochew Porridge feast like those at hotel buffets. You could easily buy or whip up the stuff needed for a porridge buffet.


You could include some dimsum items like what Nebbermind suggested as well.

[cherrygal]

Agree with Nebbermind that older folks are more traditional in taste. They either like Nonya stuff or typical Chinese dishes. Cannot be too hard or dry either. At buffets, my dad will only touch the laksa / mee siam, pau, dimsum etc and DESSERTS.


Don’t forget to include a nice dessert like chendol or bubur hitam.

[Funz]

Haha, good that you mentioned porridge. I bucked the trend and served porridge at a few of my family gatherings since there are now more elderlies. It was a hit.


Chicken porridge with toppings like shredded chicken, abalone, century eggs, you tiao.
Raw fish salad
Kong Bak pao
Jiao zi/guo tie

[buds]

Cherrygal, I love bubur hit am. :drool:


Funz, description of details for porridge buffet sounds scrumptious too. :drool: Gives me good ideas to set up for the babies/younger ones as well in future especially since the adults normally love my spicy dishes.

Jennifer, sorry.. didn't realize that \"oven\" part. Err.. we normally don't need reheating. It's wolfed down super fast once it arrived and this is normally for small gatherings of 3 to 5 families. :oops:

[Funz]

At my last gathering I served fish beehoon soup. Haha. Kill 2 birds with 1 stone, the old ones and the young ones. The rest were happy to take a break from all the rich food they had over CNY.


Prawn noodles & laksa used to be my favourites for gatherings but the old ones are conscious about cholesterol so cannot pull that menu out so often.

[heyhoe]

I need suggestions, 5 vegetarians and 5 non-vegetarians are planning to come to my place over the weekend. Any easy stuff to cook for them? :scratchhead:

[ammonite]

Grill/bake veg and marinated tofu on higher shelf of oven, put kebabs/chicken/fish on lower shelf. Check if the vegetarians can take onion and garlic before you grill the veg.