Taking a break from posting about my CNY`s holiday.
Its been sometime since my cutie doggie,BoBo appeared in this blog. Still remember her? Hehe...
And, this is some of the funny expression of her....
~~Hmmm?? You taking a picture of me?? ~~
~~ Miss BoBo is here...Good morning, class....~~
~~ Im done, mama....Im ready to take my shower~~The continuation of my CNY holiday...
3rd day of CNY :
I spent my day at home as mum said that it was a bad day to visit relatives and also friends. This is because on this day , its known as " chek hau"(cantonese) where if you visit others, you and that person will keep arguing all year round.
4th day of CNY :
Spent most day at grandma`s house and as night falls, we went to downtown for CNY`s open house at Campbell Street, Penang.
So many people..wana walk also very hard..
Open house means got free food and drinks....
Some of the CNY`s tit bits and kuih...
Got fried rice and bee hoon
Some of the very old old type of flyers..According to my parents, those are the cinema listings on show for the people around in the 70s. its like we looked up on the newspaper for movies and last time, they used to distribute the flyer with sypnosis. So cool...
Ancient type of radio and "CD player" Hehe
Trishaw man and passanger...Look at those details...
Paper cutting using red packets...
Paper lanterns...
The food...
and more food....
Soup...
Some part of the mess that we made...CNY celebration begin on the 1st day of CNY :
It was a kinda boring day for me. Did nothing except sending mum from temple to another to pray. Then my uncles came over to our house to "pai nian".
Fast forward to the 2nd day of CNY :
Its the day where chinese said "kai nian" (open year) where wedded daughter return home to "pai nian". So, early morning, we get ready to went back to grandma`s house and we ate lunch there. Then, mum and dad fetch grandma to relatives` house and i stayed back to help around in the house.
Then, at night, we went to another "belated reunion dinner" with my paternal family as most of my aunts from KL, Japan as well as Singapore came back. Thus, its sorta family reunion or gathering.
Although we were having dinner at a hotel restaurant, but the service was like a fast food chain. Reason : the hotel restaurant was fully booked and by a certain time, the table that one occupied will need to past to the next customers. *sweat* The food that we`re having :
1st dish: Lou Sang at 19:07 pm
2nd dish : Shark fin soup (but i think its more of "fan si" ) at 19:17 pm
3rd dish : Rebus (boiled?) prawns at 19:20 pm
4th dish : "Hou Si Fatt Choy" (oyster mushroom etc) at 19:30 pm
5th dish: Fish at 19:36 pm
6th dish : Glutinious rice at 19:40 pm
7th dish : Honeydew sago at 19:59pm
8th dish : Fried "nian gao" at 20:03 pm
Basically, we sapu-ed the whole dinner within 1 hour. Superfast!! However, the time for the adults was not enough. So they decided to go to the hotel where my aunts` staying to continue their "grandma"`s story until 11 ++ pm.
My CNY celebration began 2days earlier than usual. This is because I had my earlier reunion dinner with my maternal family at my 2nd aunt`s place on the 24th of January which is the 29th lunar calendar.
Had the usual traditional must have dishes like the prawns, chicken, lobak, lotsa veges, mushroom, fishes, soup and rice. Haha..!!!
My grandma is a rather tradition kinda lady as u can see in the picture that we must have our rice in a bowl rather on the plate.
Parts of the dishes
Rice in bowl
