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Saturday, January 31, 2009

Welcoming the Ox

Happy Chinese New Year!

Since I am doing reduced course load this term, other than cleaning up the house (da shao chu), I had some extra time for cooking and experimenting. Here are some stuff that I did before CNY.

paper cutting

I fried the keropok that He Wei gave

and again, my pineapple tart didn't turn out to be what I expected :(

a pamelo from asian market

my first time pealing the pamelo

This year, we decided to have a Chinese New Year Eve dinner.

group pic

I decided to make 3 dishes:

Yee Sang (ignore the keropok at the back)

Roasted pork

Red wain chicken

and SY was very happy because she finally got her 10 course dinner.

from the front and turning clockwise--roasted pork, spring rolls, red wain chicken, vegetables, prawn and omelet wrap and lastly yee sang at the middle (photo taken by Xeon)

a closer look at the spring roll that SY made

Other dishes that were not in the photo: steamed yam with pork (kau yoke), pig's stomach soup, hot and sour fish, red bean soup and bubur cha cha.

We got a chance to catch up with each other while savoring the delicious food. It has been a while since all of us get together and chat. The food was awesome. my favorite was the fish...gotta ask for the recipe.

Next, it was mahjong time!

The year of the Ox definitely came with some good news and according to the horoscope sent by SY, people who were born in the year of the Tiger will have "tao hua yun" this year too...haha :P