Chinese New Year

Celebrating Chinese New Year with Jen and friends, like with other famous dinner potluck parties at Jen&Henry's everybody usually brings some nice stuff in addition to all the good food already provided by Jen and Henry. I brought in the ever since famous dutch applepie, not a typical Chinese New Year dish but it definitely contributed to the international fusion kitchen feeling.

Jen, Laila and Gerard, another colleague of Minke, Laila is his wife (also a neuroscientist)

This is Jen, besides being friends and colleagues, we share our favorite baking recipes, iPod libraries and good books.

This sticky stuff is a special chinese new year dish, called nian gao, traditionally fed to the kitchen god. Kind of an interesting texture for first tasters like us and impossible to cut or divide into smaller portions.


Jen (colleague of Minke) invited us over for celebration of the lunar Chinese New Year. Here we are all preparing dim sum for dinner, yummie!