Chinese New Year 2012

除夕。Eve.
Reunion dinner with father's side. Instead of the usual steam boat at home, we had our reunion dinner at a restaurant in Kepong. The dish we had is called "Pun Choi" (盆菜 - literal meaning: basin-vegetable).

Poon Choi includes ingredients such as pork, beef, lamb, chicken, duck, abalone, ginseng, shark fin, fish maw, prawn, crab, dried mushroom, fishballs, squid, dried eel, dried shrimp, pigskin, beancurd and Chinese radish. Poon Choi is special in that it is composed of many layers of different ingredients. It is also eaten layer by layer instead of "stirring everything up".

In a way it is still like steam boat just that we ate from top to bottom layer by layer instead of stirring everything in the pot.

First layer.

Second layer, revealing the roast duck.

Third layer.

Fourth layer. The mushrooms started popping out.

Final layer: some greens.

Done!

What's a chinese dinner without rice?

After finishing up everything we went to my aunt's house to hang out a bit while watching some CNY programs on TV. I think we were supposed to stay till midnight but we were too tired so we went back around 11-ish.

Yes, more mandarin oranges.

Almond cookie.

Siblings.

When the clock struck 12 fireworks and firecrackers were everywhere... I think we witnessed 5 fireworks going on at the same time. We used to be one of them as well but I guess as you grow older blowing up fireworks/firecrackers starts to lose its appeal.

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初一。Day One.
Lunch @ mum's side. It was an open house at my uncle's with catering and all that so we were eating non-stop from noon till 5-ish, felt extremely bloated after that. There's so much food but there's only so much you can eat #firstworldproblems lolol.

Mummy dearest getting ready.

Roast lamb. There were 5 of these and they tasted SO GOOD. How to resist you tell me?!

Halal catering so the muslims could enjoy the food as well.

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The times when I wasn't eating, I was either watching Australia Open, taking a nap, or reading Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult because I wanted to finish reading the book asap (highly recommended btw, couldn't put the book down once I started reading). Mm, I enjoy being anti social.

I don't know if it was because of the over eating or the entire container of prunes I ate, I had massive (as in massive MASSIVE) diarrhea the next morning.


10 course dinner with mum's side tonight. Growing sideways as we speak ):