Two days…

Gosh! We’re already into the 3rd Day of the Chinese Lunar New Year. How time flies!

Well, we did not do much on the 1st day – we had the traditional Foochow mee sua first thing in the morning…

…for longevity and prosperity and it being a  Sunday, we went to church, all dressed up to the nines in our new clothes…

…and then we dropped by my parents’ house…and after that, we went to visit my in-laws but they were not at home. It did not matter much as they would be coming over for dinner – we usually invite them over in the evening of the first day…and other than the dishes I had featured in my previous post, we also had this very intoxicating kacang ma chicken…

…and this dish of freshwater prawns fried with cheese and garlic…

…that my missus cooked.

I got up early in the morning the next day to fry this tom yam mihun…

I actually added a lot of sotong (squid) and prawns but somehow they all shrank and were hardly visible under the mihun.Well, it did not matter much as everyone loved it and said it was very nice.

In line with the kampung theme for my Chinese New Year treat this year, I cooked some tempoyak (fermented durian) prawns…

…something that many were tasting for the very first time!

I also cooked some cincaluk (fermented shrimps) fried rice…

I did not put too much cincaluk in it in case there may be some not that accustomed to the taste and smell but I did prepare this cincaluk dip (with thinly sliced chili and calamansi lime juice added) and placed it by the side for anyone who wanted more for that extra kick.

For the vegetable dish, I had some fried tapioca leaves and sweet potatoes…

I used some ready-pounded sambal that my missus had in the fridge but I think there wasn’t enough so at best, it was just all right – could have been a lot nicer, I think.

I was going to cook some terung dayak (Dayak brinjal) but it was already 10.00 a.m. and my phone had started ringing. There were people on the way already so I had to abandon the idea and make do with what I had to serve…

Gosh!!! Everybody must have loved what I served as in no time at all, everything was finished – probably, this was something different from the usual fare of curry and stuff that they would normally find in other houses and by around 2.00 p.m., there wasn’t much of anything left for those who came later.

Huai Bin dropped by at around 5.00 p.m. with one regular reader/commenter, Grace and a few of my ex-students…

…so they just had to make do with the cakes…

*My friend’s awesome fruit cake all the way from Auckland, New Zealand – one slice of that and you will fail your breath analyser test… LOL!!!*

…biscuits and stuff – that was all I could offer by then.