We're spending new year in Bermuda this time, our first here. [Last year, we went back to Singapore during chinese new year.] Obviously, there aren't very many others celebrating it, my only chinese co-worker who married a Bermudian of Portuguese descent will definitely not be celebrating it, he told me so last week. So other than the crumpled yellow dragon flag hung outside chopsticks restaurant, you wouldn't be able to tell it's the all-important chinese festival of the year...
we've tried to introduce a little CNY flavour into our home - despite the lack of apparatus. behind the wii motion sensor, i've placed two clementines (no mandarin oranges here) along with a red packet (from accenture no less!) on the TV, just like how it's done in my in-laws place every year. i've tried to do some sort of "spring-cleaning" this weekend, so the house looks a little more presentable, although for sure no one's going to turn up at our house for mahjong this year.
We even had a modified "Steamboat" reunion lunch today. there was tilapia, shrimp, scallops, clams, napa cabbage, vermicelli, and mushrooms. of course i cheated with the soup - it was ready made swanson chicken stock (low sodium kind). just pour in the pot and boil!! extremely easy to do. and we had the laptop on the kitchen counter, so we watched "TV" (it was a sammi cheng and eason chan show "lady cop and papa crook") while we ate - i think there was 60% semblance to the steamboats we have at home, albeit with less people. hehe.
AND! i've made some pineapple tarts last evening. it took me 4 hours! i ate four of them for supper and ended up with a tickly throat! look at the whole cloves, those make lethal weapons!
we've tried to introduce a little CNY flavour into our home - despite the lack of apparatus. behind the wii motion sensor, i've placed two clementines (no mandarin oranges here) along with a red packet (from accenture no less!) on the TV, just like how it's done in my in-laws place every year. i've tried to do some sort of "spring-cleaning" this weekend, so the house looks a little more presentable, although for sure no one's going to turn up at our house for mahjong this year.
We even had a modified "Steamboat" reunion lunch today. there was tilapia, shrimp, scallops, clams, napa cabbage, vermicelli, and mushrooms. of course i cheated with the soup - it was ready made swanson chicken stock (low sodium kind). just pour in the pot and boil!! extremely easy to do. and we had the laptop on the kitchen counter, so we watched "TV" (it was a sammi cheng and eason chan show "lady cop and papa crook") while we ate - i think there was 60% semblance to the steamboats we have at home, albeit with less people. hehe.AND! i've made some pineapple tarts last evening. it took me 4 hours! i ate four of them for supper and ended up with a tickly throat! look at the whole cloves, those make lethal weapons!
WISHING EVERYONE A PROSPEROUS AND HAPPY YEAR OF THE OX!
GONG XI FA CAI! WAN SHI RU YI!
LO HEI! LO HEI!
GONG XI FA CAI! WAN SHI RU YI!
LO HEI! LO HEI!
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