Summer Picnic at Derby Reach Edgewater Bar Regional Park

A few family friends gathered for a picnic in summer. We had such picnic for many years.

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This year, we had the picnic at Derby Reach Regional Park. The picnic spot is at the Edgewater Bar. Derby Reach is a large park. One of the family who attended the picnic brought their bicycles and did the 12km trail ride to Fort Langley.

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Ben and I were there about 12:30PM and we were the first family to arrive. Fortunately, we were able to find a picnic table under shades.

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The picnic area is just steps away from the rocky beach of the Fraser River. A train track is located across the river and during our stay, at least four or five trains passed by. There is a camping area just beyond trees at the right end of this spot.

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This group of friends are mostly ex Malaysian or Singaporean. So, the food that we brought were mostly south east Asian style. I made curry chicken. (more…)

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Potluck

The Richmond Chinese Free Evangelical Church Praise Dance group celebrated the end of the session with a potluck.

Here were the food from the potluck. Thank you everyone for sharing the yummy food.

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Appetizers: Garlic Toast, Marinated Beef Shank.

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Various salads.

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Braised Beef with Daikon, Braised Pork Skin with Meatballs. (more…)

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U-Pick Strawberries at W&A Farm, Richmond

The praise dance group from the RCEFC went to pick strawberries after the praise dance session on a Thursday morning. Thanks to Angel for organizing this field trip.

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June is the strawberries season but according to the farmer, this year’s season arrives early. We went to pick the strawberries in early June and was told that it’s almost end of the u-pick season.

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We went to the W&A Farm on the corner of No.8 Road and Westminster Hwy for the u-pick.

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I had not picked strawberries for a few years and I noticed that the price had gone up. It’s $2.50 a pound now. (more…)

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Christmas Celebration Dinner at RCEFC, Richmond

I was invited to the Christmas Celebration Dinner at the Richmond Chinese Evangelical Free Church on No. 5 Road on 13th Dec.

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This year, 160 people attended the Christmas Celebration Dinner.

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The dinner started with the recognition of immigrants to this great country. For this dinner, there are people who has been here for as short as 6 months to people who has been here for 50 years.

A special gift was also granted to a participant whose birthday falls on 25th December.

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The program of the night started with performance of the choir. Angelica voices filled the hall.

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Dinner is served. This year, the dinner was catered by a restaurant.

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We started with a cream soup and dinner roll.

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The main was spaghetti with turkey and ham and steamed vegetables. (more…)

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