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HIDDEN · « **on:** December 11, 2009, 07:44:40 PM »

Post your stories of what you do differently on Christmas day as compared to the old country. Is it still snowmen and mistletoe or frangipanni and monkeys.

Do you miss having a real tree or have you replaced it with a banana tree?
I must say I love the lights in Singapore.

Let's lighten up and tell stories of iced gluwein and fried turkey (American which I am sure Steveso will tell us is delicious!)

Cheers

HIDDEN · « **Reply #1 on:** December 11, 2009, 09:41:08 PM »

hi,

Yep, Singapore's lights are great. This year I will be in Perak, street lights and a few fluorescent green plastic coconut trees. They're lit up, blue bulbs. I don't mind as I'm planning on having a Xmas tree outside the house complete with flashing lights, decorations, and there will be a few strings of lights from the front canopy down to the gate posts.

Stock up on Xmas goodies from Tesco, buy RM100 worth of DVD's (still waiting for 2012), air-con on full blast, and new batteries for all the remotes. Heaven.

HIDDEN · « **Reply #2 on:** December 11, 2009, 11:56:38 PM »

I must say that I have never had iced gluvein nor deep fried turkey. From all of the disaster stories tied to deep frying a turkey I wouldn't dare try it. I was born and raised in New York State near the Canadian border (Watertown). We always had tons of snow and frigid temperatures. Every Christmas my father made "Tom and Jerry's" and we had a real tree. It is a little strange for me to hear Christmas
Carols while wearing shorts and sweating in these hot temperatures. Let's hear some other memories from other members.

HIDDEN · « **Reply #3 on:** December 12, 2009, 08:31:01 AM »

Hi Steveso
have you heard of turducken. The recipe absolutely boggles the mind!
That is a serious cold place on the Canadian border. I have a friend from around the Syracuse area and he tells wonderful stories of ice fishing, skidooing and just hanging around.
I am sure Stuurman will give us his favourite gluwein recipe. It's warmed wine with spices. My iced version was a reflection on the tropics.

What's a Tom and Jerry?

HIDDEN · « **Reply #4 on:** December 12, 2009, 09:15:56 AM »

Hi Donohue! Tom and Jerry, are the two guys from California who invented a Gourmet Ice Cream with a lot of flavors, yummy, yummy, yummy. It has been a round for quite sometime. May be over 25 years or so. Don't know to be exact.

Ben

HIDDEN · « **Reply #5 on:** December 12, 2009, 09:32:03 AM »

What we are planing with a couple of friends is a Christmas diner trip around Penang island. Plan is to serve different courses on different beaches during the trip. The last 2 stops we already have: a BBQ on monkey beach and coffee, dessert and after dinner drinks on Tanjung Bungah beach. No gluwein

HIDDEN · « **Reply #6 on:** December 12, 2009, 09:33:13 AM »

Correction! Ben and Jerry was invented in Burlington, Vermont. Donohue you can Google Ben and Jerry and see those yummy flavors of Ice Cream.

Newbie,
Ben

HIDDEN · « **Reply #7 on:** December 12, 2009, 09:43:08 AM »

What a fantastic idea Stuurman. I want to hear all about it when we finally catch up.

Sananton, Ben and Jerry is indeed a great ice cream. Simple idea = great business... some times. But a Tom and Jerry is apparently a Christmas cocktail so hopefully Steveso will share with us the family recipe.

HIDDEN · « **Reply #8 on:** December 12, 2009, 10:14:21 AM »

Hi Donohue, will give you a detailed raport

. I can not take all the credits for this alone, the plan kind of evolved on our last trip to monkey beach with some friends and visitors.

HIDDEN · « **Reply #9 on:** December 12, 2009, 01:00:38 PM »

hi,

I agree with Donohue, that's a really great idea Stuurman. Different courses for different beaches.

Start a company and offer tourists the same. Wonderful concept.

HIDDEN · « **Reply #10 on:** December 12, 2009, 01:16:08 PM »

Tom and Jerry's are hot drinks made with a batter and whiskey and rum. As far as i can remember here it goes.
The batter:
Beat together about 6 eggs and 3 tablespoons of powdered sugar (icing sugar) and a splash of vanila extract. Beat this until the batter is quite stiff, like a pancake batter. You can adjust the sweetness by using either more or less of the sugar.

My father used to make a mixture of 1/2 rum and 1/2 whiskey in a bottle especially for these drinks, but you can just add seperately.

Put 2 or 3 healthy tablespoons of the batter in a mug, add 1 or 2 shots of the booze, fill the mug with boiling hot water, sprinkle on powdered nutmeg and drink.

I also remember going ice fishing and freezing my butt off. A lot of liquid antifreeze really helped.

HIDDEN · « **Reply #11 on:** December 12, 2009, 02:51:19 PM »

Quote from: HIDDEN on December 11, 2009, 07:44:40 PM

Post your stories of what you do differently on Christmas day as compared to the old country. Is it still snowmen and mistletoe or frangipanni and monkeys.

Do different: Jump in the swimming pool

Frangipani and geckos and mosquitoes (and potential housebuyers)

Cooked a roast turkey last year for the first time in ages and wished I hadn't bothered. Imported (very expensive) and NOT good quality - waste of time. So looks like it'll be Christmas Bolognese or something like that this year. I have however indulged, at great expense, in a teeny piece of British stilton which I shall savour with a glug or two of Special Reserve Port

Well it's got to be drunk up - we'll be moving next year.

HIDDEN · « **Reply #12 on:** December 12, 2009, 04:32:05 PM »

Last Christmas 2008 - went to the Valley of the Kings, previous night in Karnak and returned to our Hotel in Luxor (based on the shores of the Nile) to have our Christmas Dinner. All the "khawagat" dressed in National Costumes (Hotel Request) - the Kids looked so cute. Needless to say the Scots got four sheets to the wind!

The Locals (including Cairo - which we liked best) would wish us happy Christmas on the streets, in the shops, even the children out and about - and there were Christmas Decorations and Kitsch Santas, Reindeers and Snowmen everywhere! Obviously every Religion likes a Party! Quite a few Egyptians are Coptic Christians (very close to RC) so we managed to find a Church in Cairo to have the regulation Christmas Carol Concert - Coptic version though!

This year is keep well inside our greenhouse Tardis - overeating and watching "chewing gum for the mind" TV. Would far prefer to be where you all are - eating sate, lumpia, nasi lemak and chendol.

Happy Christmas to you "One and All" - and a Braw New Year.

HIDDEN · « **Reply #13 on:** December 12, 2009, 05:53:12 PM »

a what new year?

HIDDEN · « **Reply #14 on:** December 12, 2009, 07:19:07 PM »

It's one of Djoerk's scottishisms, it means "bustin", "cracking" or just plain dead brilliant.

I'll be having the Christmas ice cream myself, lovely

In the UK I'd be scunnered by boxing day but here I'll be in the pool having a braw time.

A happy Winter festival to ye all and dinnae ferget the first footin.

The dark side will be having gruel

Heres tee us and those like us.

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