Happy Chinese Moo Moo Year

25 January 2009 @ My Home

It was Chinese New Year Eve. I'm sure most of the houses are cleaned up and decorated with red and golden ornaments to welcome the year of Ox.


Greetings cards are not very popular nowadays. But to keep the tradition going, I still send out cards to my close relatives; and vice versa.


Some families would have lion dances at their houses and play firecrackers. In my house, there're only two mini lions my mom bought.


Just like any other Chinese families in the world, I had a sumptuous reunion dinner on the very last day of Rat. For as far as I remembered, every year I'll have my dinner with my parents, brothers and the youngest uncle, who is still a bachelor.

白斩鸡 (White Cut Chicken?) - a must

My mom would prepare all the food for the night, and all of them taste great!

Ginger Duck - something new for this year

Vege with shrimps - ah, some greens...

腊味 (preserved food)

Steamed Fish - 年年有余 (year year got "fish" abundance)

Chicken Soup - Smooth sail in everything (in hakka)

50 percent of the dishes were added the "smelly-vege" aka Yin Sai and all they bring out the aroma of the food. Mmmmm...

I guess smelly-vege-haters won't be able to enjoy this meal if they were invited. Haha!


26 January 2009 @ My Home

It's the first day of Chinese New Year! Usually on the first day, my family and relatives will eat vegetarian.

My uncles, aunts and cousins from my dad's side will come to my house to have dinner together. Here's what my mom prepared for the day.

Mixed Vege - a must have on every Chinese New Year

Mushrooms and Abalone - 包发啊！(sure rich ah!)

White Tofu

Fried "Shrimps" - It's actually fried cauliflower coated with flour [Nice!]

Hou Si Fatt Choy - Good things happen and get rich
[what's with getting rich in every dish? lolz]

"Mutton" Curry

Vege Soup - No meat used to boil the soup but still taste very good

My mom's the best cook the in the world. Her dishes never fail to open up everyone's appetite.

To my surprise, 90% of the food were finished up, after 2 rounds of eating. I'm really glad that there isn't much leftovers coz there won't be enough space in the refrigerator to store them.

With all these eating... I'm getting fatt-er and fatt-er everyday. Well, I wish you who is reading this here as fatt as me lah! Billy, out.

Happy Chinese New Year!
May the Year of Ox Bring Us Health, Wealth and Prosperity!
FATT AH!!

*sigh* more eating later for 开年...