An expat's Christmas!

in christmans •  7 years ago 

I wish you all had a merry Christmas surrounded by your family and your loved ones, and still have some leftovers to eat from the dinner (I do haha). It s been more than five years that I live in Taiwan and almost as many Christmas that I spent far from my family. It's definitely the hardest time of the year to be far from your family but I take comfort on the proximity that Video calls can bring despite the distance, and in my "Taiwanese family" with which I love to share the French culture and cuisine during the celebrations.

We had some good childish fun preparing the Christmas tree together:

.. and enjoy l'apéro (apetizers) : french saucisson and pâté (dry sausage and canned meat fraudulently imported in my luggage, shhh), tapenade (cream of olive), with good Belgium beer and some locally made French bread.

For entrance, some smoked salmon and leek pie

Follow by a duck confit and its mixed fried vegetables, all of this toasted with some good wine ;)

Since I am a living French cliché, I had to buy pretty much all the kinds of cheeses that I found in Carrefour:

It was then time for the Christmas iced cake and a good cup of champaign:

Before enjoying the gift exchange and have some good fun altogether =)

Hope you all had a great Christmas and you still feel full =D
Best wishes from Taiwan!

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Merry Christmas. Ingredients like those French specialties are super expensive in Costa Rica. Glad you get them in Taiwan. Now I am hungry. :D

Yes we do have a lot of Carrefour (French supermarket) here, so its relatively cheap =D
You re welcome to come here to eat some when you'll be a crypto millionaire ;)

Merry Christmas to you all. :) You people are looking just wow. Amazing . I wish I would there among you haha. Just kidding. Thank you

You re welcome to come visit Taiwan then ;)

Looks like a lot of fun!

It was =D

Christmas with family is the best, you didn't snap the full table just the empty plates, that is unfair. You didn't keep a bite for me lol. Want to go to Taiwan someday. Love your family, happy holiday and happy New year in advance

I still have some leftovers if you want ;)
We were 6 to eat and I cooked for 12 haha

merry christmas and happy new year :)

Wish you great ones too!

Happy crimiss and god bless u and live a happy life

Best wishes to you too!