Happy Chinese New Year
Happy Chinese New Year and a warm welcome to the Year of Dog! Woof woof!
There is always a lot of food to prepare before CNY. There are chilli, jiao zi, ngoh hiong to be made, cashew nuts to be roasted and food for the next few days to be prepared, especially when fresh food products will be scarce for the next few days as the markets will still be closed.
Based on the Chinese tradition, all family members are supposed to come home no matter where they are to enjoy reunion dinner together on Chinese New Year Eve. And Chinese always tend to spurge and enjoy all the best food during this special occasion.
There is a tradition of eating steamboats during the New Year. This is so that the entire family can huddle together to enjoy steaming bowls of soup and warmly cooked food during the cold winter.
Personally, I don’t understand the rationale of eating steamboat in tropical Singapore, especially when our weather is so warm and humid, but my parents always insist on having steamboat every year. Furthermore, I’m not really a person who likes delicacies, thus I can never really enjoy a meal that is made up of prawns, abalones, sea cucumber, fish maw and such.
Well, I know there’re more food to look forward to for the next few days of the Chinese New Year, which I think is going to be the nice “simpler” fare of fried qiao zi with salad sauce, fried ngoh hiong, curry, fish, and a few other dishes which I can’t remember. Oh yah, and the whole lot of CNY goodies to savour.
