Perpisahan, or Farewell party is what we had here last night...
Prepared for 80 people.
Stuff ordered:
35 kenang2an (something to remember us by... Pictures of Shane and I on Merbabu)
10 kg chicken
2 kg green beans
1/2 kg of garlic
1/4 kg of scallots
Hot Peppers
1/4 kg large red - for looks not spice.
1/4 kg thin curly green
1 ons Rawit - HOT
1/2 kg curly red kind - for looks little spice.
1/2 kg tomatos
2 shrimp paste cubes
1/2 kg of Palm Sugar
7 kg of rice
1 liter of frying oil
8 pkg of noodles
6 packages of jello (3 pomegranate flavor)
1 package of coconut powder for the jello
2 kg of boiled peanuts
made 2 'Lazy Daisy Cakes'
2 bags of Emping2 fried crackers
1 mature coconut
2 pkg of Tjankir tea
1 kg of sugar
1 kg of eggs
80 paper box tops and bottoms
80 plastic spoons
80 napkins
80 bags (for a spoon, folded napkin and toothpick)
80 brown waxed paper
80 pre-made compartment plastic
80 decorative tissue for on the top
80 cupcake papers for the small slices of the cake.
We rented 2 long floor mats, 75 glasses and 1 crate of 50 plates.
We ordered the chicken from the lady down the street who kills and cleans them each morning.
We ordered most of the food ingredients from a local little store (warung) who had it bought from the morning market (opens at 3AM - 6AM).
I ordered the box makings Thursday morning from a local place at one of the 2 stop lights in town.
Ibu Tiwi and I (she cooked, I cut :)) began cooking on Friday morning.
I grated my old coconut and then cooked. This was for the 'Lazy Daisy Cake' topping.
Saturday morning we finished cooking and the boxes had to be assembled, the livingroom cleared out, glasses and plates picked up from the neighborhood and food put into the boxes.
Judith - assembling the spoon/napkin/toothpick into bags...
Laura helped sweep the floor. (It was SOOOO dirty from the day before!!) We need the floor space for the food boxes.
Ibu Satyo (my neighbor lady I don't know very well) helped me finish put decorating the boxes! :)
Boxes are cut and preforated, all ready to be folded and stapled! :)
Once the boxes were finished and the rice was finally cooked (That is another story... :) ) we began filling the boxes with the food - in their own little compartment. :)
Ibu Triyani (our pastor's wife) helped finish frying the seasoned/steamed chicken...
The 'party' began at 7. We greeted everyone as they came in. Ladies began coming first, the men waiting out in the street. Shane eventually went out to invite them in. :) A cultural thing I guess... :)
Once everyone was here, the man who we had given the order of events to read them and opened in a time of silent prayer for us each to pray in our own way.
Shane spoke next. It is important to #1: Ask for forgiveness for anything that we have done both on purpose and those we are unaware of.
#2: Thank them for all they have done for us and how they have included us.
#3: To share where we are moving.
Pak RT went next and his speech was the same.. ie: thanking us for our involvement in the community, asking for forgiveness for anything anyone has done from the neighborhood and then he went into length that we are not moving because of anything that was negative towards the neighborhood. :)
When he was about done, we began pouring the hot (should have been hotter - I forgot ALL about heating it up better!!) and it began to be passed out in the normal 'down the line' fashion. Once drinks were handed out, then the plates of 4 snacks - 10 plates of each began to also single file head out to the middle of the floor. A sweet, a salty, another sweet and then a salty...
When it seemed the snack time was almost done, then the event was closed and the boxes were handed out. The 30 boxes with our kenang-kenangan on the top went to the main door and handed to the men as they were the representatives of the household. The non-picture boxes began getting passed for the kitchen to the women and children.
Then they all left.
My neighbors who had helped when we had our 'Welcoming' party stayed to help do all the dishes and clean up. Extra rice and noodle dish were divided and put into 7 baggies. The extra snacks were also divided up into 7 baggies.
Before each of my neighbor ladies headed out the door with their own food boxes, we gave them another bag with one of each of the food bags we had done up.
#1: We don't have leftovers!
#2: (which is REALLY #1 in this culture - is to be a blessing to those who have helped. It is always done this way.)
Shane and I were left with an empty and cleaned up house (for the most part) by 9PM.
Whew!
Glad we did it and glad it is over. :)
All seemed happy.
All but one family and our grandpa next door came. (The family was in Yogyakarta and grandpa was already fast asleep. I have him his box earlier today. :))
