Posts Tagged ‘Chinese New Year’

Chinese New Year 2012 – family lunch

Happy New Year! Kong Hei Fatt Choy! We get together for our family reunion lunch at my parents’ home on Chinese New Year eve. We begin the meal with yee sang, a raw fish salad (in Chinese, “yee” means fish, “sang” means raw). Yee sang is eaten by many Chinese Malaysian families at new year […]

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Chinese New Year 2009 – visiting relatives

I can’t believe I missed posting this! The morning after our family reunion dinner, we “kids” got together again to go visit our relatives for Chinese New Year. Of course, this involved more eating – I didn’t have breakfast that morning, as I knew we’d be eating nonstop as we visited everyone. :) First stop [&hel…

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Chinese New Year 2009 – family reunion dinner

My family celebrated Chinese New Year last weekend with a delicious family reunion dinner. This year, Mum cooked just one of the dishes – the must-have chap chye, which consists of cabbage, mushrooms and other fungi, beancurd skin and vermicelli. I’ve loved this dish ever since I was a child. We were all very pleased […]

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Belated Chinese New Year family dinner

My folks had been away on holiday in Malaysia since mid-January. They got home on the 15th of February. We all got together on Thursday last week after work for a Chap Goh Mei/belated family reunion dinner, to celebrate Chinese New Year. My cousin AM, her hubby C and little daughter E were at dinner […]

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Chinese New Year Reunion Dinner, 2006

Happy New Year! This year my sister CherryRipe was over from Sydney to be at the family reunion dinner. Since Mum and Dad were away at Christmas and we didn’t have a roast turkey, Mum decided to roast a turkey for Chinese New Year. She managed to buy a turkey for quite cheap (post-Christmas prices!) […]

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