The Seasonal Blog: BBQ Party At Lychee's House

I went to my Lychee’s house to have BBQ with my friends last Christmas Eve. It has been some sort of a tradition that we do every year. We have been doing this BBQ party every year since we were Form 1. Well, it’s not actually a party because it was always the five of us who went to the party which comprised of Liew, Meng, Calvin, Lychee and me. It might be a little different this time because we might be going our separate paths after this year. Lychee will be going to college or matriculation just like what his father had planned for him. The rest of us might be going to further our education in Form 6. Anyway, who can predict the future?

We did the BBQ just like what we did during the previous years. All of us contributed something to the BBQ. Lychee bought the chicken wings, Liew bought some bacon and sparkling juice, Meng bought more sparkling juice, Calvin bought hot dogs, pork balls and chocolates while I bought black seedless grapes.

Hey, who curi makan!!! Why so few left in the end.

We arrived at Lychee’s house at around 7 p.m.. Unfortunately, we just realised that we were out of “huo zhong” (the thing you use to light up charcoal). With no “huo zhong”, we tried using newspaper as an alternative to light up the charcoals but to no avail. The newspaper won’t burn long enough to light up the charcoal. Even if we shrivel them up, the flame isn’t big enough to light up the charcoal. Then, Liew suggested we burn the charcoals using the gas stove at the kitchen until they are lighted up. However, that will consume a lot of cooking gas. Then, Lychee’s dad brought some candles as a substitute for the huo zhong. ~Sigh~. Why didn’t we think of that sooner? Well, the candles worked perfectly and we successfully lighted up the charcoals. It’s not easy task to light up the charcoal. After the charcoal started to burn, we still need to fan the charcoals to provide sufficient oxygen for the charcoals to continue burning. Otherwise, the fire will be extinguished after some time and all our efforts would have been wasted. We took turns to fan the charcoals.

Ooo, fire spirits. Heed my calls. I, Calvin, command thee to rise.

After the charcoal started to burn immensely, we started our barbeque. We started off with the chicken wings as they need more time on the fire before they are edible. The BBQ is self-serviced. That means if you want food, barbeque it yourself. Then, we put Liew’s bacon on the fire. Yum Yum. The bacon tasted really good. It’s one of my favourite foods too. After that were the hot dogs and pork balls. Then, we settled down and chatted while enjoying the grapes that I bought. We talked about many random topics. Then, Liew recommended we fry some eggs on the plate if we were still hungry. Lye agreed and wanted to tried it. However, as we know, eggs will stick on the plate if you fry it without putting some oil on the plate. So, he only fried it until it is half-cooked. That means the yolk is still liquid. Liew told Lychee that the half-cooked yolk is good stuff and insisted Lychee to suck it but Lychee can’t stop himself from feeling disgusted by the yolk. Hey, even I dislike half-cooked eggs. What happened next really made us laugh until our stomach hurts. Liew told Lychee that if he doesn’t want to eat it, he will. Then, Lychee told Liew that he’ll eat it on one condition. He proposed that Liew sucked half of the yolk and he sucks the remaining half. In Chinese: “Ni si ei dien, wo si ei dien” Hearing that not only made our hair stood up but we also felt so disgusted. Oooo man, it was so disgusting to hear that. Liew immediately gave back the egg to Lychee after hearing that. At 10 p.m., we packed and cleaned up the place.