Most families would opt to have steamboat on reunion day as it is easier to prepare and there’s a variety of things which can be cooked in a steamboat. Moreover, steamboat makes everyone sort of contribute to the cooking process and in between, while waiting for the ingredients to cook, family members can have a good chat. That’s the positive reasons which is making steamboat a more and more popular choice here.

 

Usually every year, we will buy a few large fish, prawns and other seafood directly from the fisherman in the village and then cleaned, "dissect"/cut, freeze it and unfreeze it again before we finally have steamboat. But because without the skill of "dissecting" and a really sharp knife like those fishmongers have, it was really hard work.

 

 

 

So how did we prepare it this year? If you are wondering where we get such big plates to display all the ingredients/why did we put it all so nicely??? We actually catered it from a restaurant. All was provided for…from plates,bowls,spoons,pots,portable gas stove and even ketchup and of course the main steamboat ingredients and two kinds of soup (clear soup and tomyam).

The only thing we did was to go to the shop in the afternoon to collect everything. We ordered 3 sets for about 20+ people. There were definitely extras and we continue eating it the next day! 

 

Easy right? Everything prepared for and we only had to set it up and put all edible stuff to boil. Save precious time which is spent on bonding with family members and eating!!! :D