Thanksgiving 2.0

As soon as we’re getting into the Christmas cheer we realize it’s still November and Thanksgiving has not even happened yet. So us Americans realigned our priorities and continued to plan our 2^nd Annual Thanksgiving Day Feast for Foreigners (I just made up that name).

All the grub

Last year in HK we used the university’s restaurant grade kitchen facility to cook for about 20 people. This year we upped our game a bit by cooking in a world-class Tietgen kitchen for roughly 24 people. Turkey isn’t popular meat over here so everyone was eager to not only eat Turkey, but see how we were going to manage to cook a whole one! Along with our normal 20 casseroles, we also introduced Denmark to Hot Wing dip and shipped in canned pumpkin for pumpkin pie and cookies. Let's just say that country will never be the same again.

The set up

Us girls

It was another successful feast and we cook a trip around the table to find out what everyone was thankful for this year. It was a great excuse to get several different groups of people together. We had both Debbie and my’s kitchen mates, Andrew’s flat mate, Nils, and part of the HK crew. We also forced people to pick numbers for seats in order to sit next to someone they didn't already know. It was a blast and completely delicious. And actually not as many leftovers as you’d expect given the amount of food prepared.

Trio celebrating another success with probably Fisk

Kitchen 14.6

Just after our big celebration, we had two more of our fellow Hong Kongers come visit the stunning city of Kobenhavn. Yvie and Meli. They had just flown from Amsterdam so they had quite a few unique stories upon arrival. We had an extremely limited time with them so we hit the highlights! Nexus bar at school, The Little Mermaid, homemade vegetarian lasagna, a bit of shopping on Strøget and then the bar. We all had a great time in the city dancing and partying all evening then it was back to Austria for the girls!

Playing BezzerWizzer at Nexus

The Little Mermaid

Out for the night