Friday, April 6, 2012

Day 97 - Pe Khai's surprise birthday lunch at Yarra Valley

What an absolutely gorgeous day today was! 30 degrees and sunny, it turned out to be the perfect day to make a trip to Yarra Valley. Pe Khai's birthday isn't until next week, but since it was the Easter long weekend we decided to have a surprise birthday lunch for him at De Bortoli.

Birthday La Belle Miette macarons from Joanne in the prettiest of colours were my breakfast on the go.
Macarons from La Belle Miette
Specially printed menus - but Pe Khai still had no idea of the surprise celebration - it took him a good minute to realise after looking at the menu properly!
Pe Khai's special menu
The food was lovely! Antipasto to start - parmesan biscotti, fior di latte, veneto salami, school prawn fritti (yum), estate cured and marinated olives and roast red peppers.
Antipasto, De Bortoli
Followed by house cured and smoked salmon with spiced yoghurt, baby beets, peas and micro radish.
Cured and smoked salmon, De Bortoli
Main was the incredibly tender, melt-in-your-mouth 15 hour slow cooked beef with braised faro, baby spinach and pine nut gremolata.
Slow cooked beef, De Bortoli
With a vanilla panna cotta with local berry salad for dessert.
Panna cotta with berry salad, De Bortoli
It was a beautiful day to catch up with family, and play with my niece as well as Chiang and Fenella's 3 month old daughter, Janelle.
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Happy birthday Pe Khai!
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Good Friday indeed!

7 comments:

  1. Looks like your brother had a wonderful surprise birthday celebration Sammie! :)

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    1. Yeah it was a great day :) amazing weather too!

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  2. ba.... thankyou so so much hsin. your post make khai and me smile and infact jumping too!!! that was such good photos taken. all about JJ smiling and her cute gesture that i can see every day but im not able to take photo of. big big hug.... TQ sweetie!

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    1. Hehe I'm glad what made me smile made you guys smile too! We really enjoyed ourselves, it was such a great day! JJ was in a good mood that day :) ps. the rest of the pics from that day are now on Flickr in her album!

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    2. muaks!!! glad that you all enjoyed. it make the 1st time host gain experience and do better, next. :)

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    4. Looking forward to the next one!

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