On the first day of the Lunar New year, we visit my grandmother in the morning and after that we will go home to prepare for the gathering later on in the evening. Usually for the first day of the Chinese New Year, we will invite our relatives as well as frens to celebrate the New year with us in the evening.
The below pictures are the dishes that were prepared for the evening. Actually the preparation took place from morning till the evening else how to prepare so many dishes in the small kitchen.
The above is a mixed vegetable dish which is a stir fired of lettuce, cabbage, tao pow, 'wood ear', mushroom and carrots.
The above dish in the centre consists of 5 dishes ( like cold dish) . The black egg is the centuary egg and it is usually eaten with young ginger. The red colour meat next to it is bak kua, which is actually BBQ pork. There are many verisons of it so we purchased the mince meat one as it is softer and they do come in a circular shape. It looks like a coin. The dish in the centre is the eggs fried with shark fin. The other two dishes are the jelly fish in spicy sauce and the fruit salad.
The next dish is the braised sea cucumber with scallop, clams and fish maw. This dish always goes well with rice provided you like seafood as the stock base is also using dried scallop.
The dish above is prawns stirred fired in sweet and sour sauce.
The dishes at the top of the picture starting from the left is mushroom cooked in chicken soup base. The next dish which are all the fired stuffs include fishballs, fried spring roll and Lok Bak which was home made. Unlike the Lok Bak found selling outside where the filling is minced pork, this version uses the whole strip of pork marinated in five spices powder and roll in a beancurd skin. In this style, the flavour is trapped in and you can enjoy the riches of the pork and five spices flavour.
The last dish above is the minced prawn with fried bread. The external is crispy and the filling maintain its mositure. However this is really a fattening dish as quite a lot of oil is required to be used during the frying so that the colour will appear golden brown.
It was really a great day, full of fun and was a great opportunity to talk to old friends who had started work and hence usually not much of chance to converse during working days.
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