Despite the heat, I couldn't wait to get together with the Brunch Bunch again - this time at Minnie's home in Puxi. She put on a fantastic barbecue spread for us, and was fearlessly slaving over the hot coals while most of her guests were holed up in air-conditioned comfort. Thanks Minnie - you're a star!
Ada, Minnie, Mimi, John, Martijn & Joanna at the Minnie's brunch
It was good to meet up with the regular crowd, and also make some new friends. There was John from Scotland, Martijn from Holland, Ada from Singapore, Nils from Germany via Luxemborg, Minnie & Yvonne from Hong Kong, Mimi & Cynthia from Taiwan and Bob from Qingdao. The cosmopolitan mix of this city continues to amaze me! We also had a pair of 14-month twins from Taiwan who are real darlings. They ate what was available and entertained themselves while the adults ate and chatted.
Our youngest guests (twins!) enjoyed the barbecue spread too...minus the champagne, of course
Our hostess prepared a fantastic spread of honey soy chicken wings, shrimp kebabs, beef steaks and ribs (which were better than Tony Roma's). There was also a vegetable risotto, green salad and fruit salad. Yummy...great work, Minnie! There was also plenty of champagne and wine to soothe our parched throats on a very, very hot summer afternoon. It's such a hard life *wink*
Martyn lighting the Turkish nargile and Aunty Jo-Jo caught having her first puff!
Apart from the food, the entertainment was also good fun. Once the twins had left to take their afternoon naps, the adult fun began! Minnie brought out a souvenir from her most recent vacation, a nargile, or Turkish water pipe. Flavoured tobacco is filtered through water and smoked from a hose. It was love at first puff! I loved the apple-flavour of the smoke, but it's quite addictive so I stopped after five puffs...or maybe it was six...or seven...but who's counting?
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