Chinese New Year at Home

After 3 years, I am finally home for reunion lunch and celebrate Chinese New Year. Throughout this festive seasons, I get to EAT & EAT & EAT, SHOP & SHOP & SHOP! It has been a great horse year, which I have gone through transition periods of adapting the hot weather and also start working. I hope that Goat Year will be even better, full of gratitude, prosperity and happiness.  I would like to mark and share about the wonderful traditions and beautiful moments of my family celebrating Chinese New Year. 

Every CNY, my brothers and I will bake our own Cornflake cookies and this year we even made "REBEN Bia".Reben Bia is the first bottle on the left photo which has ribbon shape, "bia" basically means biscuit. The difficulty of making this biscuit is that you really need to control the heat very well when you deep- fried it. I like that everything during this festive season is red in color, even the calendars. 

Every "nian chu yi", first day of CNY, mummy will cook us a dessert  "hua kai fu gui" for breakfast, blessing us sweet days for the whole year.

We traveled back to Kelantan every CNY. Papa and mama will kneel down to gave "angpow" to my grandma. Look at the beautiful smiles of my parents and ahma. Papa mama will gain for forgiveness and wish ahma stay healthy and happy. I am touched by the actions of my parents. A simple action of kneeling down open up your heart and letting go your ego.

Every year, even though I am not at home, I will still get angpows from my parents and relatives. This year, I am grateful to get not only angpow from papa but also the blessings of my parents. Parents are always the one that worry you the most, I feel it. I eventually get older but I feel like I am always their baby girl.

How can we miss out this, the most popular item for CNY- Steamboat !! We dine out at Zi Wei Yuan Steamboat at Raja Uda, this was my first time here. We had fried fish steamboat, and added on with other ingredients. The soup was so good with milky and sour taste, but slightly a bit salty. The traditional way of using charcoal to heat up the big wok of steamboat is interesting. We have less time for each other, as everyone has their own study and work; but whenever we gather in a round table, there is so much joy and laughter. 

"Bai ti gong" is the most lively event throughout CNY. I took a nap before going to ahma house, cause I know we will be staying late till around 2am. You need to listen up to this, I seriously think that BM lang must had a prosperous horse year, cause there are around 10 fireworks and a lot of red crackers just around Sri Rambai area. We pray to the Heaven God and make offerings to ensure "fu gui ping an", prosperity and peace. 

Today is the last day of CNY also known "chap goh meh" , "yuan xiao jie". There are still fireworks going on, but I choose to take a rest and spend some time for myself. I visited temple early this morning, did prayer to improve my luck in this goat year and also be a vegetarian today. I took a afternoon nap, washed my clothes, and blogged in my little room. P.S , I like migu so much- the pink bun on the right. yummy ! 

Once again, gong xi fa cai! Happy Chinese New Year! I wish each and everyone of us stay healthy and happy throughout the year of meh meh. 

Love, 

Yvonne