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Work are going to a Malaysian restaurant in a nearby town for our Christmas dinner. This strikes me as a slightly odd idea, but there you go. My suspicion is that said restaurant will do dishes from its usual cuisine better than traditional [sic] Christmas food. OTOH, the pudding options were a tropical fruit salad, Christmas pudding, or cheese and biscuits. This means that my Christmas dinner selection is really rather strange:

Starter: A ramekin of slow cooked lamb served with roti chanai segments and Malaysian coleslaw
Main: Medallions of beef flavoured with aromatic lemon grass, mild chilli, and coconut milk
Dessert: Christmas pudding, served with double cream

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Ooh, tasty!

Pete's work do on Thursday is at a Thai place, so I guess the traditional turkey meal isn't as popular as I thought...

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I'd far rather have something interesting like that (with the exception of the Christmas pudding) that traditional [sic] Christmas dinner. For my works Christmas meal I managed to advoid all the usual Christmas food: starter soup, main roast beef, dessert chocolate and pear tort.

But Malaysian sounds much nicer.

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IMO home cooked traditional Christmas dinner type meals can be very nice esp as our roast dinner on a Sunday, if we even have one, is always a pale imitation due to time and money constraints. However, I agree that I'd go for something interesting like you did sigisgrim, they're usually not great roast dinners at work dos (the exception being one of our local pubs which has now sadly shut down, they did great work dos), and anyway if one is having a Christmas dinner on the 25th (or perhaps several with different relations on different days) you certainly don't need any more for the work do.

I don't think your non-trad Christmas dinner venue is that unusual, emperor, and you can often get twice the amount for half the price (and very nice food, too) at a lot of these Indian/Malay/Thai style restaurants. Trad Christmas dinner, eaten out, is ridiculously expensive round here, but we have toyed with the idea of going to one of the Indian restaurants instead and may well do next year. Have fun!

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If traditional[sic] roast turkey was the only option for a Christmas dinner (or indeed any other meal) I would think very hard about bothering of attending. I have yet to have a roast turkey meal that was worth the effort of cooking and eating. I find the breast meat dull and uninteresting and I don't particularly like the flavour or texture of the other meat. Usually the only meat I find worth eating are the sausages and and bacon. The bread sauce is always on the boring side of anaemic. And I don't particularly like cranberries.

Very often mass produced traditional[sic] Christmas dinners use reconstituted turkey instead of proper roast turkey which just makes it even worse.

I'm sure that many people enjoy roast turkey, but I just don't. Cooked in many other ways turkey is fine; indeed, for example, I quite like the things that Highlander does with chunks of turkey.

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Indeed, turkey is overrated. I doubt I'll be having anything approaching a traditional Xmas dinner. I expect the most likely meal will be a packed lunch atop a blue mountain - that is assuming the sucky weather doesn't linger. I'm currently inside a large cloud.

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Wow, that's, er, special. (-:

(I had turkey twice yesterday!)

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How odd that the ethnicity of the cuisine shifts so dramatically between mains and puddings!

No reason why it shouldn't of course.

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I always have traditional turkey at work dos if I can, because it's my only chance to have it. On Christmas Day we go to Alex's family, and they do a vegetarian roulade, which is very nice, but isn't turkey; and on Boxing Day we go to my family, who usually cook pork because they had turkey the previous day.

Your Malaysian Christmas dinner sounds yummy, but I wouldn't like to have it for Christmas dinner unless I could be sure of getting a good turkey at some other point during the season.

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Do you mean that this year you're off to Alex's family, or that you have Christmas with them every year? (Maybe you explained this already back when I had the Great Christmas Debate, it just struck me as a little odd)

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Sounds yummy. I went out to a 'Christmas' lunch with my Yoga class, to a local Chinese that did 2 courses for less than £6! And the food was really good, despite being so cheap.

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Mmm... roti canai! I don't think I saw lamb once on the menu in Malaysia (though occasionally mutton was around) and I'm intrigued by what they're styling as Malaysian coleslaw. Do say that you'll report back on what you actually have, as I'm absolutely fascinated.

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I'll try to - I make no promises, though, as I fear my memory may be fogged a little by the booze!

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