Happy Oink Oink Year to all my dear readers! 🐷🐷
We just got back from Ipoh today after spending 4 glorious days celebrating the Lunar New Year with family members. Traffic was rather smooth when we returned to Ipoh on Sunday (eve of CNY eve) and unbelievably smooth when we returned to KL today. We left Ipoh at 9 a.m. and reached KL in under 2 hours, inclusive of one toilet stop. Praise Lord for no reverse exodus gridlock on the highway!
We took hundreds of photos while we were in Ipoh. I’ll let the photos do the talking!
Kids and I tried the egg-balancing act on Li Chun day (eve of CNY) but only Cass got one egg standing. No luck for me this time. The year old twinsies were pretty cooperative with instructions to them not to touch the eggs; they sat patiently and curiously to watch us girls balance the eggs.
Papa whomped up a storm for us on the eve of CNY with a nine course dinner. I felt so much love and warmth having all my family members seated on the dining table savouring papa’s yummy home-cooked dishes.
Steamed cod fish, stir-fried ‘siew yoke’ with soy sauce and Chinese cooking wine, the Yong family’s special Hakka stuffed dried oysters with fish paste and minced meat with ‘fatt choy’ and braised fish maw with abalone.
Blanched lettuce with fried garlic, steamed chicken, braised arrowroot with ‘siew yoke’ and dad’s yummy dipping sauce for the steamed chicken.
Steamed homemade Chinese case-less sausage (made by my aunt) and waxed meat, blue pea Basmati rice, braised pork belly with yam and David Beckham’s Haig Club whisky. Dessert was cherries.
Mum received a set of plates as housewarming gift from one of her friends when she moved in to our very first family house in Moonlight Park, Ipoh but she only unboxed the set of plates and used it for the first time almost 48 years later! And the plates are still in pristine condition!
On the first day of CNY, we had to wake up early to prepare ourselves to reach the Yap’s family house to receive the Lion Dance troupe at 9 a.m.
Lunch was vegetarian.
The girls with their aunt W (hubby’s cousin) who is the same age as Alycia.
When we got home to my parents, we had another round of camwhoring and ang pow giving ceremony with my parents and brothers.
My super duper adorable twin nephew and niece.
For the first time in their lives, the girls and their cousin had the chance to play with firecrackers at their grandparents’ home. They cavorted on the road and squawked each time a firecracker was lighted. Living in a condo, the 4 city girls hardly ever have the chance to play with firecrackers. I grew up playing with firecrackers every CNY and even dared to light up those long red blasting Chinese firecrackers.
After warming up, Cass finally had the courage to light up the rocket firecrackers.
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