Come Chinese New Year, members of the family would come home from near or far to sit down together at one big table for the reunion dinner. Unfortunately, this year, Melissa has just left for Sungai Petani some three weeks ago and would not one to go through the hassle of travelling home and going back there again even before “the seat has become warm”, so to speak and my brother and his family overseas have never made the trip round this time of the year. Thus, there were only my parents and my sister, my missus and me this year.
When she was in Penang a couple of weeks ago, my missus bought some pai tee (top hats) shells so I cooked the filling and we had that for the dinner…
She cooked her ngor hiang (five spice meat rolls)…
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…and also this fish fillet and fish maw vegetable combo…
…and this was the steamed chicken and abalone soup that we had…
Even though she doesn’t eat duck, she cooked this lor ark (braised five-spice duck) and eggs…
…for the rest of us to enjoy and she also prepared the salad that we usually have and everybody loves…
All in all, it was a delightful dinner to bid goodbye to the old year and welcome the new one…in the hope that we would be blessed abundantly with health and happiness in the days ahead.
...STILL CRAZY AFTER ALL THESE YEARS! 