Today I will be sorting the things required for Reunion dinner on Wednesday. The menu is firstly "Suan"leeks with meat/eggs/ bean curd as mum said leeks so that we have money to count and bean curd as "dao guann" in Hokkien means official so if we eat this dish, we will have promotion and such in our ranks. The second dish is "Fa Cai hao shi". I will cook oysters with fa cai and da bai cai. Maybe to add in the " Jin zhen, fou pi". Third dish is the fish with spring onions and mushrooms. Fish means "nian nian you yu" abundance in the coming year. must remember to keep the fish head and fish tail to tomorrow so that everything "you tou you wei".
The fourth dish we will be having is the broccoli with you yu ( cuttlefish). You yu means there s extra left over so must eat also. The fifth dish I wanna cook is the sweet and sour prawns. To have prawns so that next year we will all be happy and gay. "Ha" means prawns in Cantonese so that is a must to stay "xiao ha ha" next year. I will be cooking some "jiao zi" as the shape looks like gold ingots and eating them means having more money for the next year. The desert for the new year will be "tang yuan" so that we will always be together. "Tang yuan" is round and it symbolises "tuan yuan". I will try to recall what to eat for Chinese new year. In fact some said to eat bao yu( abalone), long xia (Lobster)and yu chi ( shark fins) to have wings that soar. That will be expensive ingredients.
I have bought red date tea and ba bao cha to be eaten for first day of Chinese new year but I have not bought the Mandarin Oranges and Pomelo. Seems like there s no pomelo here. The Mandarin oranges I must try my luck at the shop here. The pineapple I bought seems to be too ripe too. might have to buy another one. I bought so many goodies but we will only be around till 3rd to finish the food. 4th we will be back in Singapore.
In fact, according to Yun Long zi shi fu, today is the Chinese new year already. Rat year begins today rather than on the first of Chinese new year. What do you think?
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