BBQ 101

While most of the urban citizen of Kuala Lumpur clearing off their leaves and counting the days for New Year, I am here in the office stuck with loads of work…

Mak is still in my house, will be off to Melaka this afternoon to join Pie and his family…her so-called favorite son…that is what we describe him as…of which at certain extend I think is very true...sound a little bit bias and unfair if Pie reads this (heheh sorry bro). Yeah…we always feel that Mak loves him more than us, mak gives him extra attention bla bla bla. It hurts when we were young, but at this age, it does not hit us as much as before. Dah besar la katakan hehe. Thank God that she has got no idea what a blog is…or I will end up pujuk-ing her for the rest of my life.

Mak came down to KL on the 27th. I didn’t have any plan laid for her…nor any birthday celebration planned (her birthday is today actually). To cut the long story short, we made an ad-hoc plan, with the rest of my sibling’s OK, to have a BBQ at PD.

Booking was made, food bought from TESCO a day before, and we even bought a new BBQ pit. So we set to PD with rombongan Along (our bro jambu Abg Li, Aiman, Amirul, Akmal the-Mr. Sam-seng with his bibik) from Batu Pahat, Pie (Lynn & Izzul si-pipi-labuh) from Melaka, Adil (Su & yet-to-be-born Irshad), Dik Nur and Dik As together with Jimi & me from Bangi.

The scenery from the apartment was great indeed…the sea-view unit. We could feel the cooling breeze, lepak-ing at the balcony having mak’s meehoon while enjoying the sunset. But the facility and the service Corus Paradise Apartment gave us was disaster. Heater was not working, the floor was sticky that somehow forced us to buy Ajax Fabuloso to mop it, not even a body soap or a single tissue let alone towel and few other basic things equipped.

By ignoring all those, we headed up to BBQ lot by the sea that cost us RM30 right after Maghrib and the year-end doa without realizing that starting up the fire with the so-called ‘high-quality’ charcoal took us ages. We reach the place 5 min pass 8 and had our first grilled lamb at almost 10.30 p.m. Gosh! I almost die because of the hungriness.

Since this is our first ever BBQ experience, here some few important tips that I need to remember for the next BBQ:

Lesson no 1:
Always start early, at least by one hour, so you have time for fire preparation and allow coals to catch fire.

Lesson no 2:
Bring some old newspaper to compliment the fire starter.

Lesson no 3:
Appoint only one person to buy and marinade the meats. You will end up having the incomplete set in consequence of one of the persons appointed fails to show up or doesn’t have time to buy their portion.

Lesson no 4:
Invest in a big torchlight to have a good lighting…utmost important! Otherwise, you will never tell whether your meat is raw, medium, well-done or tooo well-done.

Lesson no 5:
Never quit! Never surrender! That is what Captain Buzz Lightyear says in Toy Story. In another word…be patient. We would never have the opportunity to experience the yummy lamb and scrumptious grilled chicken if it’s not for Along. Kudos to her for giving us such a ‘motivation’ and ‘encouragement’ ekekkee. X sia2 belajar psychology dulu ehehhe.

An early birthday surprise for mak that night, as a small way to show our appreciation towards what she has done all this while…

With all the lessons gained from our PD trip, I look forward for the next BBQ and most probably be somewhere after Jimi and I move in to Precinct 8…