Chinese New Year 2012

So here it is...a better late than never post of Chinese New Year in Malaysia. It's long overdue for me at lieast, since it has been 10 years since I last celebrated CNY in Asia. On the eve of the festival, we went over to my grandma's house for the reunion dinner.

The pic on top is a dish that is eaten once a year during CNY particularly in Singapore and Malaysia. It's called yu-sang and it's essentially a mixed, pickled fruit salad. Because my grand-aunt and grandma do not eat raw fish (which is traditionally eaten with the salad), we opted for jellyfish instead. The tradition is that the salad is tossed by everyone in the family, with everyone proclaiming a wish for the new year and the idea is that the higher the toss, the better. So as you can imagine, it becomes a very noisy and even more messy ritual.

Here's Kent and I posing with the yu sang on a very big plate!

Mixing the yu sang:

The rest of the food served that day during the reunion dinner. From the top row, left to right, we have stir-fried leeks, asam prawns, brocolli with "tunku" and "fatt choy". At the lower row, we have roast duck, a version of the Nyonya "Pong Teh" chicken and sweet and sour fish.



And of course, the new year wouldn't be complete without a pic of the two "golden oldies"; my 96-year old grand-aunt (left) and my 94-year old grandma (right).

Have a good water dragon year!!