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)

Pickled Vegetable And Roast Pork Bones Soup

No morning walk on this Saturday morning because there was a light drizzle.

Morning sky at 7:45am.

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For breakfast, we wanted to try a new place that a friend recommended. The name of the coffee shop is Sunrise Restaurant, a corner shop. When we were checking in, we were informed that drinks will not be served for dine-in. There were only 4 tables for dine-in.

I ordered flat rice noodle (koay teow) with curry.

Hubby ordered pig stomach pepper soup with mixed noodle (yellow noodle with koay teow). In the bowl were pieces of pig stomach, a meat ball and a chicken foot.

We also ordered some of the fried stuffed ingredients for sharing. These were all freshly fried.

A heavy breakfast for 2 people.

After breakfast, we went home to make our own black coffee (kopi O).

During rainy season, lots of mushrooms are sprouting out.

These mushrooms were found by the roadside as we walked past.

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Simple home cooked dinner for 2.

There was a packet of roast pork bones in the fridge. I bought some salted or pickled mustard green (hum choy) to make soup with the roast pork bones. Ingredients used: roast pork bones, hum choy, carrot, tomatoes and pickled sour plum.

This was our one dish dinner with steamed rice.

We love this soup very much.

Sometimes I will boil this soup with duck if duck is available.

My white bitter gourd plants growing in a pot in my garden.

Pursue peace with all people,

and the holiness without which no one will see the Lord.

See to it that no one comes short of the grace of God;

that no root of bitterness springing up causes trouble,

and by it many become defiled;

(Hebrews 12:14, New American Standard Bible-NASB)