BBQ
Kate organised an American-style BBQ for her English Club and kindly invited another JET and I to join in. We had the BBQ in a park near the mountains. Nice park. Many families there. We found a nice quiet spot near some big trees...for shade! Dunno why they like to have lunchtime BBQs here...guaranteed to get a sunburn!
We grilled home-made hamburger patties and bratwurst sausages and made hamburgers and hotdogs. There were also baked beans, pasta salad and potato salad. The students contributed handmade desserts. The desserts were yummy but there were too many!
It felt a bit strange cos the BBQ pit was used only to grill the burger patties and the sausages and there were so many pre-prepared items like the salads and desserts. Anyway, the sausages were great. Really tasty and juicy. I actually offered to bring something Singaporean along (fully prepared to search for satay recipe online and prepare some, but Kate wanted to keep it American-style).
On the subject of different BBQ styles, Japanese-style BBQs are quite different. They grill lots of vegetables, e.g. eggplant, corn with soy sauce, onions (yuck!), etc, and finish off by cooking a huge tray of yaki soba on the grill.
Kate organised an American-style BBQ for her English Club and kindly invited another JET and I to join in. We had the BBQ in a park near the mountains. Nice park. Many families there. We found a nice quiet spot near some big trees...for shade! Dunno why they like to have lunchtime BBQs here...guaranteed to get a sunburn!
We grilled home-made hamburger patties and bratwurst sausages and made hamburgers and hotdogs. There were also baked beans, pasta salad and potato salad. The students contributed handmade desserts. The desserts were yummy but there were too many!
It felt a bit strange cos the BBQ pit was used only to grill the burger patties and the sausages and there were so many pre-prepared items like the salads and desserts. Anyway, the sausages were great. Really tasty and juicy. I actually offered to bring something Singaporean along (fully prepared to search for satay recipe online and prepare some, but Kate wanted to keep it American-style).
On the subject of different BBQ styles, Japanese-style BBQs are quite different. They grill lots of vegetables, e.g. eggplant, corn with soy sauce, onions (yuck!), etc, and finish off by cooking a huge tray of yaki soba on the grill.
Here are most of the English Club students.
And the kids played frisbee after that. 
It was quite fun and I really enjoyed the sausages but I felt a bit like I was working since I was surrounded by high school students (although they were not my students).
posted by Cindy @ Japan @ 11:38 PM
2 Comments:
At 2:10 PM,
Anonymous said…
i think americans like sunburns.
and what is yaki soba? bbq corn is yummy, but bbq corn with soy sauce sounds hmm.. strange?
At 3:32 PM,
Cindy @ Japan said…
Actually, it's the Japanese who like to have their BBQs at mid-day. Not sure when the Americans do theirs.
Yaki soba is basically like stir fried yellow noodles...something like our hokkien fried mee...but the chap (sauce) is not as yummy, probably cos they don't use lard! :)
Talking about strange, they eat this boiled vegetable (bitter!) with either raw egg or mayonnaise and soy sauce(?!) AUGH!
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