My papa and mum baked almost 10 types of cookies for Chinese New Year this year. On the eve of CNY, papa cooked a feast for the reunion dinner. My older brother and his family from Singapore went back to Ipoh, so did my younger brother from KL. We only joined them on the first day of CNY.
On the third day of CNY, papa cooked all the CNY dishes that my late maternal and paternal grandmas used to cook:
Clockwise from top: Braised stuffed dried oysters with black moss (Ho See Fatt Choy), waxed meat and cured sausages, sauteed leek with roast pork, lotus root and pork ribs from the soup, abalone braised with black moss (Pau Yue Fatt Choy), braised stuffed mushrooms with black moss (Toong Koo Fatt Choy), steamed cod fish, sauteed lettuce and steamed chicken in the center. Many of the CNY dishes have black moss (fatt choy) in them as the word 'fatt choy' in Cantonese means PROSPER, which is an extremely auspicious word, especially during CNY.
It will be another one year before we get to dig into these CNY dishes again and I am already starting to miss them now 😋💗
On the third day of CNY, papa cooked all the CNY dishes that my late maternal and paternal grandmas used to cook:
Clockwise from top: Braised stuffed dried oysters with black moss (Ho See Fatt Choy), waxed meat and cured sausages, sauteed leek with roast pork, lotus root and pork ribs from the soup, abalone braised with black moss (Pau Yue Fatt Choy), braised stuffed mushrooms with black moss (Toong Koo Fatt Choy), steamed cod fish, sauteed lettuce and steamed chicken in the center. Many of the CNY dishes have black moss (fatt choy) in them as the word 'fatt choy' in Cantonese means PROSPER, which is an extremely auspicious word, especially during CNY.
It will be another one year before we get to dig into these CNY dishes again and I am already starting to miss them now 😋💗