You must be very very old (like me) if you know this song…but it’s just crossed my mind that when one is old, there is not much use getting presents – things that one will never get to use…or even ang paos as there will come a time when one does not need to spend anything at all – those immediate members living together with him or her would see through all of one’s needs. Perhaps we can still give it as a token or to upkeep the Chinese tradition and belief that it brings good luck but I guess that is all one needs when one grows all – good luck and good health wishes and prayers for God’s abundant blessings.
My mother-in-law celebrated her 79th birthday on Sunday…
…and we went out for dinner together – just five of us only, unfortunately – my missus and I and my brother-in-law and his wife, together with my mother-in-law. All the other children and grandchildren do not live in Sibu.
We had the mee sua, our traditional longevity noodles, fried and served with the lightly-fried golden eggs…
…and the Four Seasons…
I love that egg thingy in the dish – very nice and best with black vinegar added. At one time, it was the craze, this dry version of the shark’s fins dish and everyone was going for it instead of the soup version. Later, there were also people who used tung hoon (glass noodles) instead of genuine shark’s fins and of course, that would be much cheaper than the real thing but eventually the novelty wore off and it ceased to be as popular as when it first came into the scene.
I don’t know what this was in that same dish…
Maybe it was quail legs…but perhaps it was frog’s. I tried one and it tasted good – like chicken breast meat but that was it. I wouldn’t want another for the images of miserable legless frogs on wooden crutches kept playing in my mind. LOL!!!
Everything else in that dish was nice including the yam puffs…
…and other than those, we also had these prawn balls…
I think they had honey and lemon in the sauce and it tasted good.
We also had the regular – the midin (wild fern) fried with belacan…
…and the fish maw soup…
…and that was all we had for the dinner – we did not want to order too much as the ladies hardly ate much and that left only me and my brother-in-law to do most of the eating…and besides, we had the birthday cake as well for our little celebration to wish my mother-in-law good luck and good health and may God bless her always.
...STILL CRAZY AFTER ALL THESE YEARS! 