This year, Gary and I are honoured to host the family Chinese New Year reunion dinner - a Chinese tradition, where family members gather round to eat and usher in the new year.
We started dinner with lo hei – which is a celebration where everyone gathers around a special salad called yu sang. Everyone uses their chopsticks to help toss the salad, lifting up the ingredients as high as possible, as a symbol of great prosperity in the new year.
Then came the feast, a home made banquet that was really sensational! It was a joint effort, between my mother in law and myself, my dear sister in law Ching Mei and brother Kelvin. We had abalone soup, braised sliced abalone and sea snails (hmmm... an Asian delicacy??), braised shitake mushrooms with oysters and fat choy, curry chicken, sang choy bao, roast duck, roast belly pork with a crispy crackling and pan fried prawns. It was delicious! We ended the night on a sugar high: a lychee dessert plate - Lychee and white nectarine salad on a frangipane tart, home made lychee ice cream, lychee jelly and lychee macarons.
We ate and ate - until our bellies hurt and our hearts deliriously happy.
Here's wishing my dear family and friends, my (Chinese) readers near and afar a Happy Chinese New Year! May the year of the Dragon bring in to you all good fortune, good health and prosperity. Gong Xi Fa Cai!!
3 comments:
Happy new year to you and your family. :) food looks so good. i think better than restaurant standards.
Have a great year ahead. :)
Happy Chinese New Year~~ wishing you to have a wonderful Dragon Year~~~ XD
Regards,
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Thank you Mags :) My mother in law did most of the dishes! Happy CNY to you!
And oh Happy CNY to you too Mr Lonely... hope you're not too lonely this CNY. :)
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