Reunion CNY Dinner 2023

I have been missing in action after my last post on the 18th January, 2023 and that is about 4 days. I had to do the last minute spring cleaning because the cleaner woman's daughters were sick and couldn't come. I had to do the last minute shopping plus getting ready some Chinese New Year snacks.

Here is wishing "Happy, Healthy & Prosperous Chinese New Year 2023" to everyone celebrating the Chinese New Year.

Crunchy home fried arrowhead chips or nyaku and imitation crab sticks on the left and toasted cashew nuts.

The above 2 types of Love Letters were bought. On the left is love letters with peanut butter and chopped almond filling.  On the right is love letters with chicken meat floss filling.

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The following were all gifts from friends.

Cashew nut cookies and pineapple tarts.

On the left is Almond Florentine and on the right is Seaweed Crisps.

On the top is Chocolate nut cookies, on the left is Chicken biscuits and on the right is Pistachio nuts.

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Simple home cooked Reunion Dinner.

Fried Prawns

Roast Duck ordered from a restaurant.

Yee Sang or CNY prosperity toss salad dish ordered from a nearby restaurant.

The vegetables were all hidden underneath the crunchy stuff.

Blanched Ipoh beansprouts with garlic oil, oyster and soy ssauce.

Left over salted vegetable + roasted pig leg soup from lunch.

Reunion dinner 2023.

We had left over roast duck for the next day.

Ushering in the CNY 2023 with this beautiful Adenium flower, a gift from a friend.

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Breakfast this morning, Monday 23rd January (2nd day CNY).

Most of the coffee shops in our area are closed for 2 days and only 2 shops are opened and they were overflowing with customers. In the end, we went to a Mamak shop for a relaxed breakfast to avoid the crowd.

I ordered tosai with plain water and hubby ordered roti canai with teh tarik (Forgot to snap photos) Elder son ordered the above roti canai sarang burung with kopi ais. Younger son still sleeping in his room.

Visit Perak mural for Monday Mural.

Linking to Monday Mural.

Stay on the path that the Lord your God has commanded you to follow.

Then you will live long and prosperous lives in the land

you are about to enter and occupy.

(Deuteronomy 5:33, New Living Translation-NLT)

Lunch At Restoran Eipoh, Ipoh

Usually at this time, most of us will be busy spring cleaning our houses or making Chinese New Year biscuits or cookies.  As for me and my friends, we put aside some time to meet up for lunch before the Chinese New Year celebration. We had no planned venue for lunch so we were waiting for someone to suggest a venue. Someone suggested Restoran Eipoh which is not out of the way for us, plus we also wanted to buy some biscuits which is somewhere nearby.

Kong cheen sang meen or pre fried wanton noodle.

Everyone enjoyed this noodle.

Sing chow beehoon or Singapore fried rice vermicelli.

This was a disappointment because it was dry and lacking in ingredients except for some beansprouts and pieces of fried egg.

Deep fried salted egg yolk prawns. This was good.

Baby choy sum sauteed with garlic.

Total cost of lunch = RM85 for 4 people.

That comes to about RM20.25 per person.

After lunch, we stopped at Sin Eng Hoe Confectionary because a friend wanted to buy peanut candies. All were sold out and we were told to return at about 5pm for the new stock. We ended up buying some other items.

Instead of peanut candies, I bought the above fried rice crunchies at RM5 each packet.

1 packet of sachima or sak kei ma which is a kind of sweet snack. This packet has almond slices and sesame seeds added to it - RM9.90

This is the original plain sachima - RM7.90

A friend wanted to buy neen koh or sweet glutinous rice cake in the Pasir Pinji market. I accompanied her into the market and I too ended up buying a small size neen koh. This stall is selling the neen koh at RM28 per kilo. This small one that I bought costs me RM11.20.

If you love someone, you will be loyal to him no matter what the cost.

You will always believe in him, always expect the best of him,

and always stand your ground in defending him.

(1 Corinthians 13:7, The Living Bible-TLB)