Happy New Year !!!
How is you CNY celebration getting on ? Still snacking on your CNY goodies and groaning about the extras kilos from all those feasting ? Join the club.....If you are not good for you. (With me shooting a dirty look at you !)
The above picture is a shot of a snack I got for the CNY; vacuum freeze dried Thai durian chunks.
Yup, durians as if there is not enough 'heaty' food around me. It was a 'just try it, loh ' since it is something new ( green coloured) on the supermarket shelves which were crammed with the usual red and gold (yellow/brown) coloured cookies. Instantly drawn to its colour.
How it taste like ? OK, nothing great, the infamous smell was not over powering at all unless you pop one into your mouth or keep it sealed in a container. I 'm sure you'll know what I mean. It's hard, a slight crunch to it , well duh, it has been freeze dried. #1, my only durian kaki/buddy says he prefer it to be left unsealed. Then it'll get a bit softer and more like the real fruit itself. One thing for sure is that it sticks all over your teeth and it 's a cavities nightmare ! Brush.... brush.... after it.
Next, I know I have posted all these pictures in my FB , so skip them if you want to.
Could someone remind me not to do it again !
I was so busy that I even forgot to get an appointment for a mani/pedicure. In the end I found someone who can fit me in and it was only an express one.
I was so busy on the eve ensuring there was enough soup, food on the table that I did not take much pictures on that day.
On the first day it was at my SIL's place for lunch, snacking on more CNY goodies , then it was time to go house calling at our elders.
Second day a repeat of the first except it was at my place with only Mother. We had most of the dishes she used to prepare for CNY. Such as - the following shots will tell you.....
Yau Yee Chow
Preserved meat and duck on arrowroot, steamed.
Zhai Choy- A vegetarian dish with fatt choy
so that we can be fatt (prosperous)
and not FAT !
Golden Nuggets - OK this is not her traditional CNY dish.
It is just something easy to prepare...
= my dish. :)
Prawns for some
Ha..Ha..Siew
After all that it was another round of visiting this time with H's sis.. See all those goodies calling us on the coffee table ?
This is the first time we took a family shot with all of us inside it. We have grown and in dress size too !.
This is the first time we took a family shot with all of us inside it. We have grown and in dress size too !.
Gong Xi Fa Cai !!!!!
4 comments:
That's all we get here is Thai durians, the whole fruit. Corrine always buys them and get me over to eat. She says is better than no durian. There's hardly any after taste to it, not even on the fingers like how Scully snubbed me when I offered her the cookies on my durian-ed fingers!!!!
BTW, who was your gopher on your 2nd day preparation? Especially the Yau Yue chau, goodness, still remember how much were there to cut, and had to be really fine too!!!
Haa.. I can still remember that smelly fingers incident. :)
What is a gopher ??
And our standard dropped coz I'm the cook.
Gopher means your slave lah!
Standard dropped even with the sifu around??? Cannot be....
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