Celebrating Chinese Novel Year
Jumat, 21 Januari 2022
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yee sang as well as prosperity dish of oysters as well as fatt choy
Thank you lot for all the good wishes! Hope everyone had a wonderful long weekend of feasting at home, restaurants, friends as well as relatives' homes. I was downwardly inward Singapore for the festive celebrations.
lap mei fan alongside crispy crusts, tender waxed meats as well as aromatic fried garlic
It was a quick weekend trip that kicked off alongside luncheon at an one-time household unit of measurement favourite - Hua Ting at Orchard Boulevard Hotel, only off Orchard Road. Here nosotros ordered traditional must-haves a.k.a. yee sang, lap mei fan (waxed pith rice) as well as nien gao.
prawns fried alongside lily bulbs as well as asparagus
I had fun noting downwardly how dissimilar things are done inward Singapore vs Kuala Lumpur eateries. Here you're given seperate chopsticks (longer ones) to attention you lot toss the colourful vegetable strands for yee sang. It way a longer arm stretch but don't worry, it nevertheless gets messy equally nosotros must The waitresses are eloquent when they are prepping yee sang for you lot to toss - every improver of an subdivision is followed past times a prosperity or proficient luck saying.
the gorgeous sunflower agar agar made past times my auntie
Even the lap mei fan is dissimilar hither - the waxed meats are tender when bitten into (no difficult lap yoke or waxed meats) as well as they seperate the crusts from the fluffy rice. I didn't know that chip or else I would convey held out for the crispy burnt crusts - 1 of my favourite bits of lap mei fan. They too add together fried garlic into the rice, giving an added fragrance as well as aroma. We too had a prawns fried alongside lily bulbs - no postulate to peel ones since nosotros were all lazy to instruct the fingers dingy as well as a Chinese prosperity dish, fresh yuba or tofu pare stuffed alongside an assortment of goodies such equally oysters or hoe see, fatt choy as well as Chinese mushrooms. Dessert was nien gao - they brand a pumpkin version that tasted weird, belike because I am to a greater extent than used to the traditional versions which I liked fried alongside a sparse slice of yam.
cookies galore - honey letters, kuih bangkit, pineapple tarts as well as curly bamboo alongside cherry blossoms
No Chinese New Year's Day celebration volition move consummate without cookies as well as nosotros convey an assortment of nibbles that you lot can't resist - homemade pineapple tarts, peanut cookies that melt inward the oral fissure when you lot popular one, crispy keropok as well as arrowroot crisps made past times my auntie, large pineapple balls as well as crispy shrimp rolls from Le Cafe inward Singapore, kuih bangkit from Bengawan Solo, milky tasting dragon biscuits from the sisters who run the wantan noodles stall inward Jalan Batai, almond rounds, honey letters from Tong Kee as well as etc!
yellow skinned dragon fruit to refresh the soul
To residuum off all the unhealthy feasting, nosotros did travail to a greater extent than or less salubrious measures similar eating loads of fruits - juicy Tasmanian cherries as well as these gorgeous yellowish skinned dragon fruits that yielded refreshing flesh that was non cloyingly sweetness compared to the commons pinkish skinned dragon fruits. Traditionally the start solar daytime saw us cooking "chai", an assortment of vegetables to my mother's instructions. Even the fried beehoon was pseudo vegetarian alongside the luxe addiction of abalone (we didn't convey whatsoever eggs!). All this was paired alongside rendang tok as well as rendang Perak I bought from my favourite Shah Alam lady. Simply yummy materials that nosotros stuffed ourselves silly. I reckon the kids (my twin nephews as well as niece) had the almost fun, equally they got to swallow everything inward sight (cookies, Nespresso chocolates, H2O ice cream, fruits as well as etc!). More pictures are institute inward my Flickr set.
So how was your celebrations? Anything eventful???