Just in time…

Melissa came home on Friday afternoon…just in time for the Chap Goh Meh (15th Night) dinner to mark the end of the fortnight-long festivities to usher in the Year of the Horse.

Again, we just had something simple – steamboat…

…for the three of us.

My missus made some fish balls and meat balls and I bought some beef balls from a  supermarket here and some quail eggs and we still had some of the bamboo clams that I bought for Chinese New Year and the giant freshwater prawns…

…from my brother-in-law in Bintulu.

They say the head is the bad part – where all the cholesterol is but I must say that it is the most delicious…

…with all that yummy gooey stuff in it. Other than those, we also had some fish maw, fresh baby corn, mushrooms and green vegetables – that was all.

I also made this simple salad with some leftover cabbage…

…and bits of hard-boiled egg, boiled prawns, sliced shallots and croutons that I made from a loaf of bread that I had, stuffed inside the fridge and nobody seemed to want to eat it.

With our traditional family salad dressing, it certainly tasted great…

…and we finished the whole lot in no time at all.

So, that was it for another year – around this time next year, the Horse would be galloping away, giving way to the next animal in the Chinese zodiac – the Goat/Sheep.