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Pineapple nastar rollis our family's favorite CNY cookie. Without fail, we will bake pineapple tarts every year for Chinese New Year. Over the past few years, I have been using this recipe and have made slight amendments to further improve it.Some minor changes that I have made to improve the...
2016 will herald the Year of the Monkey and to celebrate the arrival of the Chinese New Year, Hubby has been getting creative preparing some monkey "art" for around our home this festive period.If you are observant you will remember during Dec 2015 my blog displayed a "BabySumo Santa" avatar and likewise my...
Welcome the Year of the Monkey with festive favorites with your family and friends at Five Sen5es, The Westin Kuala Lumpur's authentic Cantonese Restaurant. For the Chinese, the Lunar New Year revolves around five blessings, namely, Longevity, Riches, Peace, Wisdom and Virtue.From 2 to 21 February 2016,...
Welcome the year of the Fire Monkey with family, friends and relatives and savour the delectable festive menus at Lai Po Heen, Mandarin Oriental KL from now until 29 February 2016.Join in the ritual of tossing yee sang for prosperity, good fortune and health - there will be 5 yee sangs available here,...
This Chinese New Year, Celestial Court in Sheraton Imperial KL will be featuring 4 exclusive prosperity 9-course set menus in conjunction with the Year of the Monkey, with reference to the legendary story of the Monkey King, namely "Journey to the West, Eastern Sea Palace, Celestial Gatekeeper and Uproar in...
My next favorite celebration after Christmas is Chinese New Year. We had our first CNY review for the year at The Eatery in Four Points by Sheraton, Puchong earlier this week.Welcome the Year of the Monkey with a reunion buffet dinner on 7 February 2016 with tasty dishes such as sun dried oyster dumplings,...
Nu Sentral put in a lot of efforts and thoughts in decorating the mall. The theme is "Olden Golden KL". It looks like the 50's to 60's era.
During the CNY period, we will serve prawns quite often, due to its Cantonese name 虾 "ha" sounding like laughter "ha ha ha" and thus symbolising happiness. But mainly because we are a prawn-loving family! When my kids see prawns, they get super excited and they will not be shy to ask for more ("peel more...
Happy Birthday everyone!Today, the 7th Day of Chinese New Year is known as "Renri"人, or everyone's birthday. Yee sang is traditionally eaten on this day for continued wealth and prosperity.Yesterday, Hubby and I went on for a spot of daytime dating after running some errands in Bangsar.
On the forth day, after our breakfast/brunch at my sibling's place in Sg. Buloh, we packed up again to continue on with our journey down south. Need to stuff up our stomachs, expecting our drive to be a very LONG one since it was a Sunday.... Bought-from-Ipoh dry wanton noodles....And prepared...
Over the weekend, our relatives came over to "bai nian"拜年(CNY visiting) so I decided to make a salmon yee sang for us to toss together. Last year's Lucky 8 scallop yee sang was a huge hit with my family (and I got very good feedback from readers and friends who made it), so for this year's...
I had never traveled out of town before during CNY but this year is quite different. This is the first year that my mom is not around to celebrate CNY with the family. Without her during this festive time, the feeling is just not the same anymore. Something is still missing and it looks like we siblings...
Lunch at my in laws for Hoi Leen..(Ushering in the 2015 Chinese New Year) Reanaclaire at work....Seeing is believing....HahaaaaSoon it is ready to be served!!! The table was soon filled up with good food plus the hands that helped to serve...Yes, do note the difference...Serving and preparing...
Now mom is not around, I will make it a point to visit the eldest sibling from this year onwards... We siblings may be busy with our own family matters day in and day out that we do not have time to gather with one another on normal days. I feel that it is important to have a family reunion ....
Hello! How are your Year of the Goat Chinese New Year celebrations going so far? Goat or meh (get it?)? We had a full vegetarian day on the first day of CNY. One of the auspicious dishes that we made was braised mushrooms with broccoli and fat choy.Cooked a vegetarian feast on 1st Day of CNYFor this dish, I...
A man performing wushu during a dragon dance performance at a commercial centre in Malang city in eastern Java island on Feb 19, 2015, during the celebration of Lunar New Year. - AFP picBEIJING: Fireworks illuminated the skies across China as millions around Asia ushered in the Year of the Sheep today,...
First day of Chinese New Year! Started off with a Big Bang! My Voice! And I hope I don't have to do that again... really embarrassing and not something I am proud of..... I have to write this down so that I will not repeat what I have done in future... Forgive me Kids! I am really sorry for what I...
Chinese New Year Eve is today... Wednesday 18.2.2015.Started the day by waking up as early as 9am and out from the house by 11.30 to have the first meal of the day in Hollywood, Canning Garden... Everything was sold out by then except for the Indian curry rice. No mind... good to have rice that would...
Wishing all readers and friends a very Happy Chinese New Year in this Year of the Goat. May you be blessed with an abundance of wealth, fortune, longevity and good health in 2015. And not forgetting lots of good food :)Welcome Year of the Goat!Huat ah!Goat Xi, Goat Xi!Photographer: My mumLocation: The...
Last weekend, we met up with a good friend for lunch at Hokkaido Ichiba / Kita No Zen in The Gardens Mall. We ordered our food, chatted away, food arrived and we ate our lunch and then we got talking about CNY and yee sangs... and I said "Hey they do yee sang here too, wanna try?"Japanese yee sangWe ordered...
