Dear Mum,
I hope that you have had a happy Chinese New Year, and do remember that this is the sixth year of ang pau that I am still waiting on.
I am expecting a very big packet next year. Like an A4 size one.
It was a good but tiring New Year's for us... I was in the middle of working a seven day shift while Karen worked really hard to prepare us a wonderful home-made dinner for a bunch of us on the first night of Chinese New Year.
She really worked her kitchen fingers to the bone, as you can see - there's a fish, braised beef, fried chicken (which became beer chicken after we spilled some beer on it. It was a purposeful accident), some yummy soup, stir-fried asparagus, and - would you believe it - lobak (or ngoh hiang) made from scratch.
We finished off with a wonderful dessert made by Wency, her equally talented housemate. It was a refreshing lychee and mango pudding. Yummy!
Both you and Grace were missed very much this Chinese New Year, and we wish that you were here to try out all these wonderful dishes. We made it as Chinese New Year as we could by buying peanut cookies, peanuts, peanut ice-cream and every peanut thing that we could get our hands on. As you can see, no Chinese New Year is complete without the compulsory lychee and chyrsanthemum drinks from our good friend Yeo Hiap Seng.
I miss your vegetarian dish, though, Mum. It was always a sure sign of Chinese New Year - the fatt choi, the dried foo chook, and the fungi all mixed up with other ingredients I would happily eat but could barely name here. As you can see, we have not upkept the tradition of eating vegetarian on the first day of Chinese New Year. There was at least four different animals on that table that night.
Anyway, have a happy rest of Chinese New Year in Malaysia... I have heard that fireworks are now legal again in Malaysia. Could you please buy some so that we can save it up for when I come back next year in Christmas? It would surely give Santa a fright, and maybe we can steal his presents.
Your loving son,
hK.
5 comments:
hahaha.. arrgh.. wish i can teleport and be there TOO.. :)
Hey about the fireworks being legal, where did u hear that from arr?
dodo
GONG XI.. GONG XI
Missing you all so veli much... Chinese New Year would mean so much more if it was as a family. Lazy to celebrate sometimes. It's the usual wake up, wait for one aunty to come and struggle to converse, then go to another aunty's house. Bo--oringgg... anyway,mummy's A4 sized ang pau for you is inversely proportional to the amount of money inside. It's empty. I used it =P
D - I don't know... I think it was a conversation at dinner that night... someone said that fireworks were legal again... I guess not!
wearniceskirt - Aiyah... boring or not it's still a nice tradition mah... Would you rather be doing absolutely nothing on CNY?
Yeah, we miss you guys heaps too... except for when my sister uses all my ang pau money to buy IKEA furniture!
yes. about the F being legal, i kinda had this conversation somewhere.... :P.. apparently, the police will just "close one eye" for the big shots.. :)
hahah....
can't wait to be home soon.. can't wait...
wei''' i'm coming home soon..say in less than 48 hours.. i'm coming back with ur A3 size ANGPOW packets.. have to queue and "cham char" k..:) :P
Thanks Grace for the lovely top. I'm wearing it to the airport tomolo.. :) hehehe
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