Chinese New Year 2012

it’s the first chinese new year that we had together sine we got married.

for me, there’s nothing much other than to get ang pau (oh wait, that was before i get married. now i dread it!), eat till you get sick, meet up with family members and also small time gamble. haha!

other than the fact i’m married now (and i have to clean up the house), CNY will always be the same. as always, i will not be able to have reunion dinner with other family members as i will have errand to do on the eve.

this year, we decided to cook a grand lunch all by ourselves.

yes, the portion above is only for two of us!

‘loh hon zai’ (will never forget the chinese cabbage!), oatmeal prawns, steamed salmon, ‘gu lou’ pork and lotus root + peanut soup!

the dishes above taste great! not bad at all as it was the first time fatpig cook the dishes.

it’s a good start for the water dragon year!

and also, i wish everyone HAPPY CHINESE NEW YEAR! HAVE A GOOD YEAR AHEAD!

tiring journey on CNY 2011

yes. nuff’ said as the CNY holidays are on thursday and friday. not to mention tuesday was FT Day which makes it a long holiday for ALL malaysians.

both of us are unfortunate to only go back to Perak on thursday although both of us had taken a two days of leave prior to that. but due to some errands, we are only able to leave KL on the 1st day of CNY

which means we are courting trouble…

the moment we paid the toll, we encountered a ass-wrecking jam. ass-wrecking in the sense that my ass will definitely feel numb after the long hours of stuck in the jam.

 

jam jam jam till we can’t see the end of the line. most of the drivers were non-chinese as the chinese would have went back to their hometown at least a day before CNY

in fact, it was so jammed that PLUS gave the drivers the permission to use the emergency lane! before that, there were staff standing under the hot sun directing the drivers too. but we did not take the risk back then as we did not know what were they trying to convey.

after being stuck in the jam for half of the journey, we thought it was the end of it after the highway was cleared.

little that we know two days later we encountered the same highway jam on the way back to KL. this time is worse as PLUS even dismantled the barrier and created a counterflow to ease the jam.

heck, even the toilet in the R & R were jam. you know there is something not right when you see guys queuing up for their turns to ease themselves and some of them went to the palm oil plantation as they couldn’t hold on any  longer.

all in all, that’s a great eye opener.

not to mention ass-wrecking. haha!

“Reunion Dinner” 2010

Notice that quotation marks in the word Reunion Dinner?

that’s because i there are only two people in the Dinner – GF and i.

that is quite normal for me coz i will be alone on eve and the 1st day of CNY as everyone had went elsewhere during that period of time. as for me, i will be going out only on 2nd day.

well, after a hiatus of more than a month, i guess i have to find something to blog so that this blog will remain active. haha!

since, no one is going to cook, the great chef aka GF will orchestrate the dinner for two.

from these ingredients, i think you will know what is the meals last night:

which, magically become these :

lotus root and peanut soup

lettuce cooked with garlic and oyster sauce

pork marinated with HP Sauce

we decided to omit fish these year as previous years’ of experience told us not to cook it again. yes, we suck at cooking fish. haha!

and once the table has been laid, feast your eyes on our reunion meal!!!

looks a bit too much for a dinner for two, right? nah… we managed to finish it. but there’s still some soup though.

and wait, before you mention that we did not cook curry chicken (top left) earlier, let me tell you. yes, we did not cook those. it was leftover from the lunch. haha!

dinner will be served with 100plus and beer. CNY is not complete with 100plus. as for beer… not really for me. i don’t really drink. that carlsberg is only for garnishing. i did not really drink it until 4 hours after the dinner. haha!

we end the dinner with dessert which is dragonfruit. not very sweet though. a bit of sour to me.

and with the dinner, we ended the year of Ox with a prosperous tummy!!!

anyway…

HAPPY CHINESE NEW YEAR AND I WISH YOU ALL A GREAT AND ROARING YEAR AHEAD!!!!! ROAR~~~

p/s: pig, thanks for cooking the pre-CNY dinner for me for the past 3 years!