Every year, my in law without fail, will celebrate this special day. Since on the actual day, we don't celebrate it "seriously", so they decide to do another one yesterday ie: Sunday night, whereby Monday is their off day, so they can stay up late.
We had a last minute BBQ at home and invite some close relatives over to enjoy the food, and eating moon cakes. Now let me show you what we had last night.......
mother in law bought these beautiful and "big" lantern!
pork belly, mushroom, sausage wrap with bacon.......
prawns.........
ribs!!!!!! ready to serve.......
we got pork satay, prawns, chicken wings on the grill.........
Chef of the night was my hub......
closer look of the prawns......
ribs on the plate..... this is a hot items, finish fast!!! I only had one stick!
some fruit salad....
another batch food on the grill.....
All the food are finish fast, we don't know why. Everyone standing at the tables, once the food on the plate, it gone just within a second. It's now you see, now you don't! No kidding!
The sausage below, i took one on my plate and i was helping hub putting the food on the grill, as his "assistant", when i turn around, my sausage was gone! Lastly, i manage to try one on my sister in law's plate. :)
it may look ugly, but it sure taste good!
this is how the plate look like while everyone still waiting for the food to be ready...
belly in the grill......
After everyone finish eating, then it was hub turn and sister in law and my turn, we sit on the table, eat slowly and enjoy the food, no one "fight" with us for the food. Kids playing inside the house while waiting the rain to stop. Yes! It rain heavily while we had BBQ, lucky we got "shade" to hide from the rain.
Some of my hub aunties and uncles, they start play mahjung, while we "young" one, light up the candles and lanterns, sipping tea and eat moon cakes. Now my boys are older, they are no more interested to play lanterns, they are more interested in playing candles!!!
some of the lanterns....
this is how my boys love to play, light all the candles on the floor. This picture i took on the actual night. :)
Everyone had so much fun, my boys too. I let them play till almost 10.30pm, this morning they nearly cannot wake up for school. ^o^ By the time we finish clean up, it is almost 11.45pm, and those playing mahjung, they still continue till 1am!!! *yawn*
This is how we celebrate our moon cake festival this year. How about you? Do you have a great one?