Thursday 26 January 2023

Food On The 3rd & 4th Day CNY 2023

On 3rd day of CNY 2023, I cooked black vinegar pork leg for lunch.
I served half portion for lunch because there were only 3 of us eating. Younger son went out for lunch with his friends. I kept the other half portion to be frozen for another meal.
Broccoli and carrot and I used some of the egg white left behind from another recipe.
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4th day CNY 2023, elder son will be returning to work in the city after breakfast. We thought of having breakfast at the dim sum restaurant nearby our house.
When we saw the overflowing crowd at the dim sum restaurant, we changed our minds and walked over to the opposite food court. There, we were told that the steamed buns were all sold out.  Elder son ordered curry noodle while hubby and I shared a plate of braised pork noodle.
Braised pork noodle.
I didn't take photo of son's curry noodle.
We don't light firecrackers but we do have a pot of blooming orange firecrackers in our garden.
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Simple home cooked dinner on 4th Day CNY 2023. 
Son's favourite: Fish paste & minced pork patties.
Hubby's favourite: Stewed chicken feet.
Cooked napa cabbage with carrot.
I added a can of abalone (received as a gift). There were 10 small abalones in the can. Sad to say that the abalones, even cut into small pieces were all very rubbery. This is the first time I come across such rubbery abalone.
Yellow cucumber + carrot and pork bones soup.
The weather is usually hot when we celebrate CNY but for this year, it was an exception. For once, we are enjoying nice and cool weather throughout CNY 2023.

Sound the trumpet!
Come to the joyous celebrations at full moon,
new moon, and all the other holidays.
(Psalm 81:3, The Living Bible-TLB)

27 comments:

  1. Your orange firecrackers are beautiful and yay for family being there!
    But chicken feet I just cannot imagine to eat, LOL... is there meat on them at all, I wonder?
    I think here they´re thrown away... (which is a shame then actually).

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    1. To most Chinese, chicken feet is a delicacy. Plenty of collagen on the chicken feet.

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  2. No pork leg for us this year. Price of pork keeps rising, ASF everywhere. Hard to buy pork here these days, down to once a week only.

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    1. Agreed, price has gone up for pork. Looks like I wouldn't need to buy meat, fish or prawns for a while because I will need some time to clear the stock from my fridge.

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  3. My mil cooked vinegar pork trotter for reunion dinner. Occasional rain over here, so not too warm.

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    1. If I do laundry, I need to catch the sun in the morning. It usually rains in the afternoon or late evening.

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  4. Your plant co-operated for this CNY. :)

    I haven't come across rubbery abalone before.

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    1. This is my first time getting rubbery abalone. Ended up no one eats the abalone.

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  5. Braised pork noodle looks really good. Not a fan of abalone...they are tasteless.

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  6. Your son's dish, Fish paste & minced pork patties looks very good but your hubby's dish, Stewed chicken feet it's not for me. Have a nice day Nancy.

    Cruisin Paul

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    1. Thank you, Paul. Understandable about the stewed chicken feet. Lol!

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  7. Nancy, it strikes me how many days they allocate to celebrate the New Year.

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    1. CNY is celebrated for 15 days. But these days, it is not practical to celebrate the full 15 days.

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  8. Hello Nancy :=) A good selection of meals, none of which I have ever tasted, but can imagine I would like the fish paste and minced pork patties. Your flowers are beautiful.
    All the best.

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    1. Thank you, Breathtaking. Have a great weekend.

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  9. Lots of good foor, you have been enjoying the festival! Hugs, Valerie

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  10. The pork patties look delicious! I'm glad you got to spend some time with your son.

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    1. Thank you, Ginny. Even with all the cooking, I enjoyed very bit of it because I am cooking for the family.

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  11. I hope you and your boys have had a wonderful visit, you certainly fed them well!

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    1. Thank you, Mimi. Yes, we had a wonderful time together and I do enjoying feeding them. Lol!

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  12. Ricos fideos de cerdos y el favorito de tu hijo se ve muy bien. Te mando un beso. https://enamoradadelasletras.blogspot.com/

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  13. Toda la comida se ve muy buena. Besos.

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