The girls woke up very early this morning, despite hitting the sack past midnight last night. They were looking forward to follow koong koong and granny to the wet market @ Kg. Simee. Though the wet market has never been a place that I like to go to, I want my kids to get used to going to and to get used to eating at such places. Surprisingly, my 3 fussy city gals did not complain a wee bit! Not even when we passed by the stinky and wet section where raw chicken and fresh seafood were sold. After doing our marketing, I brought the girls to our regular hair salon to have their no-frills cheap and good hair cut, which cost me only RM22 for their hair-cuts 😀
We had breakfast at a popular fishball noodles stall and had to wait for a long time to be served. After breakfast, we bought some fruits, snacks and tong yuen / tang yuan dough. It is very rare that the girls get to celebrate Dong Zhi in Ipoh with my parents. This is the second time that they get to do so 🙂
Check out Sherilyn and Cass with some life chickens in coops, waiting to be slaughtered. Poor birdies 🙁
We had dinner at Kok Thai restaurant tonight. Actually, we did not know that this year’s Dong Zhi festival falls on 21st of December. Normally, it falls on 22nd December, which is my eldest brother’s birthday. I only found out that Dong Zhi 2013 is celebrated today (21st Dec 2013) in Facebook at around noon. As my dad was busy cooking kaya (coconut jam) the whole afternoon and did not have the time to cook up a feast for us, we ate out. Also, I spent the entire afternoon with Alycia at a shopping mall and was her Santarina, buying her shoes, swimsuit, clothes and books. She felt so loved and special.
Here’s wishing all my friends and blog readers a very happy Dong Zhi festival! Did you indulge in tang yuan this year? We will only have our tang yuan and home-cooked feast tomorrow 🙂
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Happy Tang Yuan to you …
I don’t know that the date for Tang Yuan celebration changes every where, I thought it is fixed at 22 Dec … well… since I have some pandan leaves and gula Melaka, I will make the tang yuan on 22 Dec .. better late than never …
Show us pix of your tang yuan! 🙂
Hi, I am one of your silent readers in Houston. Winter Solstice this year fell on the 22nd according to this article. http://www.ecns.cn/2013/12-23/93761.shtml. I have three girls too and we also made tong yuen!
Hi Su
Good to hear that I have a silent reader from the US 🙂 Did you have to make the dough from scratch or it’s readily avail. in supermarkets in China Town?
I had to make the dough from scratch. We are blessed to have a big Chinatown about 40 miles away where I can get groceries. There’s also a Vietnamese grocery nearby if I need something in a pinch. My husband is also from Ipoh…Canning Garden!
Ooh, Canning Garden – famous for chee cheong fun with mushroom sauce! I’m sure he misses Ipoh very much – the best place on earth for hawkers fare!