19.02.2010

GONG XI FA CAI!

i guess it's not too late for me to wish all of you happy chinese new year, because it will be celebrated for the whole 15 days until Chap Goh Mei. my new year was great (except for the black-outs) and wishing you a blessed new year too!

as usual, our reunion dinner was home. this year, i happily volunteered myself to prepare the soup of the day ;) because mom will prepare pak cham kai and i can have the chicken broth for the soup.. and that's easy.

these are the ingredients i prepared for the soup:

japanese tofu, cut into small pieces..cut them just like how you cut leong foon

black fungus, cut into thin slices

grated carrot

filament stick, also cut into thin slices

first, heat the chicken soup, put in the carrot and black fungus. bring the soup to boil to soften the carrot and black fungus. then put all the salt, sugar or any extra seasonings for the taste before putting in the tofu. when the tofu is in, stir the soup slowly and pour in corn flour mixed with water to thicken the soup. after getting the perfect consistency, pour in beaten eggs to make it more presentable.

the soup of the day :)

we had our yee sang which consist of seaweed, carrot, stripes of cuttlefish snack, filament stick, cucumber, jelly fish and raw salmon, pumpkin seeds all over them, sesame seeds on the jelly fish and sweet and sour sauce..

for dinner, we had:

pak cham kai

stuffed mushrooms with broccoli

fried prawn

khiu nyuk

fried pork with sweet and sour sauce

fresh seaweed salad

chu kiok (pork leg cooked with dark soy sauce)

it was also roddy's birthday, on that day, so we bought 3 small slices of cakes as a surprise for him..

Blessed Birthday! :)