Chinese New Year 2017

Xin Nian Kuai Le

Gong Xi Fa Cai

Of all the festivals we celebrate, Chinese New Year has got to be the biggest, most extravagant, most elaborate and most important of them all. Weeks before the New Year, we have to do thorough spring cleaning, decorate the house, buy new clothes - red of course, stock up fridge, prepare red packets, go for hair cuts and the whole works.

Even Mum had started preparing the foodstuff from days before the New Year, like all the soaking and chopping etc would have been done days in advance. Lucky for us, we always have reunion dinner at Mum's - all I have to do is bring ourselves and our empty tummies there to feast!

My favourite is definitely the Salmon Yu Sheng. I wish I could have it all year round. I love the taste, the texture, the colour and the symbolism of it all. There's nothing quite like it, really!

Toss it up and toss it high!

Oh the amount of food we ate over the past few days!! 😋

Our family tradition for CNY breakfast - a bowl of chicken mee suah and sweet poached eggs, plus bak kwa.



More food....

I hope everyone had a fabulous long CNY holiday with your loved ones too!