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Well I didn’t really have any plans so when my great aunt called me up and said I should come over for dinner on Christmas Eve, I agreed.

While I was sitting around, I was presented with this bowl. What could be in these shiny wrappings? Candy? Yum!

But wait, what is this? This isn’t candy?

Oh no, it’s meat! Strange preserved beef products shaped into cubes and wrapped in shiny paper. It’s a trick! Oh well.
Dinner ended up being Chinese food, which was actually pretty good. Here’s a blurry photo of the spread:

And to follow it up, a less blurry version of the fried fish. It was a little bizarre to have dinner looking back at me.

All said, I enjoyed it a lot. It’s nice that they thought to invite me over so I wouldn’t be sitting around at home, as I likely would have otherwise.

The music was… Christmasy, that’s for sure. It was this sort of generic mall-sounding music, heavy on what I assume are synthesized instruments. That and the fact that there were these strange instrumental-only versions and we only had one CD so I heard it all many times through the evening. I tried to record some but it didn’t really work out. I also didn’t manage to get get any of my great aunt singing along. That surprised me. But I guess she takes a class where they sing popular Western tunes, and lately they’ve been on a Christmas kick.