The 5 Curries of the Apocalypse
After a week-long relaxing Chinese New Year holiday, we were given another day off the following Wednesday for no reason that any of the TAs could give in English.
To make the most of the free time, Pascal decided to invite the TA's and teachers up to our house for a curry. Understandably they were a little anxious that it was going to be a 6 hour waiting game again... but we assured them that this time, everything was going to go like clockwork.
T-3 days... on the Sunday evening, Pascal started cooking some lamb curry, allowing the juices to fully marinate the meat. Chic peas in the fridge soaking in water.
T-2 days... I helped Pas cook up some chicken and onions for a spicy tomato rogan josh style curry, while he rustled up a sweet and sour ginger and lime sauce.
T-1 day... on the Tuesday night, we made the chic pea curry with probably more chilli than recommended... the dishes were looking hot!
T-6 hours... that morning we went shopping for last minute food and veg... fried up some onions to put in the rice, added a heap of shrimps into the sweet and sour sauce... and had a long and deep discussion about making another curry: meat or veg?
Pas called meat and meat it was... a chicken tandori: it was pretty much ready by midday.
T-3 hours. Nick arrived and helped roll out the 2 dough balls i'd rolled into chapatis and naan breads. 72 pieces in all!
T-0 The TAs arrived on time and to our surprise everything looked like it was going to be ready on time. The main issue was heat: we had 2 hobs, a gas burner, an electric oven and a microwave to heat 5 curries, 2 pans of rice and a plethora of breads... but with a bit of balancing and luck... we pulled off the perfect
Indian. 25 turned up in the end... so it's a good thing we made extras.
After dinner, one TA spotted Twister in the corner and dispite being full of curry, everyone was eager to play. Possibly as they'd not played it before or more likely that they were losing the capacity to make sensible decisions after May's (Linda's sister) onslaught of sweet wines.
After this, the fall from dignity continued as we were introduced to a card game whereby the person with the king can order 2 other people to do something (however humiliating). I'll let the photos do the talking.
Who knows where this game may have ended... but sadly as the clock struck 9 in the land Yuanlin, all of the TAs had to go home... leaving the four boys (Nick, Tim, Pascal, me) to wonder at the nights events.
Pascal was leaving in a few days, so we went down for one last game of pool for old times sake to round off the entertaining night.
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