Vào cuối thứ bảy, Ming Ming (Trang), Qi min (Linh), Shirlyn (Sen), Jennifer (Lan) và Sharon (Hoa) nấu ăn ở nhà thầy Minh. Chúng em bắt đầu nấu ăn lúc mười giờ. Chúng em rất vui vì chúng em nấu Gỏi Gà cho các bạn.
Before the arrival of this D-day, we allocated the preparation work among ourselves. Sharon and Ming Ming bought the cooking ingredients from the supermarket while Jennifer helped to buy the ingredients from the wet market. Thanks to Qi Min, she woke up early on Saturday to steam the chicken. Not forgetting our creative Shirlyn and Jennifer, they thought of a lot of ideas for the decoration of our dish. (P/s: I love the tomato rabbits! Cute!!!)
The chicken breast meat has to be steamed beforehand so that we could start off with the salad making immediately when we reached thầy Minh’s house. The de-freezing part of the chicken took forever, and it is really annoying when the chicken is still solidly frozen when you are in a rush to cook it :P The chicken meat was steamed for around 40 minutes to make sure it was thoroughly cooked and off we went on our journey to thầy Minh’s house.
The time when we reached thầy Minh’s condominium, the place was already packed like sardines. Enthusiastic students could be seen squeezing at every nook and cranny of the house, preparing for their dishes. Fortunately, we managed to occupy the dining table and start working without further procrastination =)
We started into a frenzy of cut, chop, skin, slice, shred the veges! We had cabbage, carrot, basil, mint, lime, green onions and cilantro(Chinese parsley). Thanks to the combined effort from our efficient team members, we were done with preparing the veges real soon :D Also not forgetting our most important ingredient of all—the chicken. The steamed chicken was shredded using just two forks. Next step: MIX ‘em all up!
After mixing all the ingredients together in a big mixing bowl, we started preparing the garnishes. We began to line the serving plate with lettuce. After that, we made a whole family of rabbits out of cherry tomatoes!
The tomato rabbits differed in sizes and the baby rabbit even had its own basket (made from an orange with cô Bích’s guidance).
In addition, we also had small roses made from tomato peel. It was not an easy task to “peel” the tomato as the skin tended to break easily. Fortunately, some of our group mates managed to do it. Thus, we had some pretty little roses accompanying our salad! :D
The above picture was how our salad looked like when everything was put in place!
After all the preparations, we were almost all set and ready for judging! So we brought our yummy sauce and salad down to the swimming pool area to wait for the other teams to finish up. While waiting at the poolside, it was picture time of course! And finally when the judging was about to begin, we mixed the sauce and the salad and TADA!!! Our authentic Gỏi Gà!
The judging table was soon filled with all the other groups’ beautifully decorated dishes. Cô Quỳnh's , Cô Bích and Cô Lê were the judges and when it came to our team, we were all nervous and all eyes were on the judges’ expressions! Thankfully, they liked our Gỏi Gà because we added lots and lots of herbs!
After the judging was over, we were finally able to taste all the dishes that our classmates prepared! On top of that, there was chicken noodle soup (Phở Gà) that was prepared by our tutors. We enjoyed the sumptuous food and we were glad that our salad dish was finished as well.
It was definitely a fun cooking experience and everyone sure put in effort! =D =D =D
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