Ma has an annual Mooncake dice game w/ her old classmates every year. This year Pa couldn't make it (Sy Association officer duties), so I subbed for him. The "Gang" (a number of whom I've met and travelled with) met at what was formerly the Hancourt restaurant at Annapolis Street in Greenhills. Halfway through the 8-course meal most of us were already feeling full. (Senior citizens don't need much, really.)
As for the dice game we played for cash and hopia bought from Salazar's Bakery. Every ang bao won also netted you 1 hopia of various sizes (bigger prize, bigger hopia). Eventually we ran out of hopia and started giving away the dinner leftovers and unopened cans of Coke. (Like I said, they didn't need much.)
I didn't do too bad, especially compared w/ Ma's game (tip: toss dice w/ only one hand). My biggest prize was from getting 2 sets of triples--3 ones and 3 fives. While Ma didn't make back her thousand-bucks-per-head buy-in (x2), we did end up w/ a lot of hopia and leftover chicken and abalone soup scooped from a coconut.
All I did was show up, eat some seafood and left w/ almost 900 smackers. It was the low-end version of Paris Hilton being paid just to show up at a party. (Only w/o the venereal disease and subsequent sex video.)
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