It is always so much fun to be with Tito Ralph.  He is so spontaneous, so adventurous and just always full of energy and joy! Happy Birthday to our dear friend!!

We celebrated Tito Ralph’s birthday in his soon to open Hotel and restaurant, Hotel Vino.  It is a 4 floor building – Restaurant on the ground floor, Training center on the 2nd floor and hotel room on the upper floors    

Wine dispensers 

Wine Training Center or it can be a private room / area for functions 

8 rooms on the upper floors 

Tito Ralph always has his family complete in all his celebrations…..and we love them dearly

and of course his many loyal friends… 

 We had a delicious dinner

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The gang got together to celebrate the forthcoming arrival of baby girl Rianna!  

It was again another excuse for us to eat our favorite meal together, fondue!  If there is one thing in common with the group, it is our love for fondue!  Every single one of us love fondue and nothing can be more fun than to have everyone enjoying each other’s company at the same time enjoying the meal…I must admit that as the meal started, I could not listen to Raul as he was telling us stories about his F1 experience in Singapore, I was too engrossed on eating the fondue! and I think the others were too 🙂

I specifically bought these black fondue plates for our fondue dinners only to find out that it is a bit too small to fit the rice… you will be shocked at how much sate rice we can eat when we are eating fondue.  But nevertheless, no one wanted to change their plates and instead used them still

My cook prepares all the fondue sauces:  

Top:  Bernaise and Peanut butter – Bernaise being the most popular so I have to make 5 times the amount of this sauce compared to the other sauces

Bottom:  curry, tartare and spicy catsup

They let me prepare the sate rice and fondue sauces and then everyone else brings something so it is pot luck:

 Bulgin and Lils – Beef and dessert -Frozen brazo de Mercedez

Pael and Yvonne – Wine and Ostrich – it was our first time to have ostrich and it was a good and healthy addition

 Raul and Jeanne – Pork

Anto – Chicken – though we missed Anto who could not go last minute 

 Eds- her famous chocolate chip cookies

We do not use fondue pots in my house because it might get too smoky indoors and since we are a big group.  So we have my cook prepare everything already.  It works well for us because we get to eat it right away and not wait for it to be cooked.  The plates have to be refilled 2 or 3 times!   

After dinner, Yvonne had some baby shower games prepared!

Game # 1:  Measuring the wasteline of Mommy Lau 🙂 

Game # 2:  Daddies have to put on the diaper of their babies/stuffed toys!  🙂  Of course Raul was the best at it!  

The weird looking ( monkey wrapped in a diaper ) one was made by James who obviously does not know how to put on a diaper 🙂

Game # 3:  Question and Answer by Daddy and Mommy  

Traditional opening of presents  

We are all excited for Rianna and our next fondue dinner!! 

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