Chinese New Year In Kuala Lumpur & Johor Bahru

Gong Xi Fa Cai!

It has been a while since I’ve updated my blog. I was busy with pre-Chinese New Year errands as well as getting ready for the Chinese New Year.

On Chinese New Year eve, 6 Feb, I flew down to Kuala Lumpur for the Reunion Dinner with my grand mother, uncles and aunts.

My youngest uncle TK, cooked up a feast of yummy food which is impossible to buy from restaurants. This is because the ingredients he used are 1st grade stuff. People will balk at the price if the dishes were served in restaurants.

I really enjoyed my dinner and everyone agreed that it was really really good. But cooking all day was very tiring for my uncle and I suppose it was the love of seeing his guests savouring the delicious food that drove him to toil in the kitchen.

I forgot to bring my camera to take shots of the dishes but manage to get a photo of a monster prawn…it was damn good prawn, and each of us had one each!

Usually on the 1st day of Chinese New Year, 7 Feb, we’ll have open house for our friends and other relatives. However, my grand father passed away last year, so we are not suppose to celebrate New Year for 3 years.

So my grand mother, uncles and aunts flew to Bangkok for a week of holidaying.

We went visiting my other grand mother as well as other relatives, something which we haven’t done before. Traditionally we are suppose to receive guest in my grand father’s house.

Anyway, 2nd day of Chinese New Year, we visited some friends and family which is the norm, and had another reunion dinner at my other grandmother’s house.

On the 3rd day of New Year, my family and I drove to Johor Bahru.

My family and I had our own reunion dinner in JB at New Lucky Restaurant with an extravagant dish “Pun Choi”. This is how it looks like…

As you can see it’s one big mother of all dishes! It has Fish Maw, Goose Web, Deer Tendon, Stuffed Dried Oysters with Fish, Prawns, Sea Cucumber, Roast Pork, Scallops, Giant Garoupa’s Head, Abalone and Smoked Goose. This dish is cooked for a table of 10 persons. There were 8 of us and good thing we managed to finished it without over eating!

I celebrated my birthday in JB too. We had seafood in Senibong. My youngest sister is missing from the picture. She is in Perth starting her Masters in Pharmacy (he he this time I got it right) in University of Western Australia.

Well, apart from eating and drinking, this Chinese New Year I also manage to take a rest for a week from all the work adn vege out watching DVDs of movies which I missed out. Now I’m back in Penang its money making mood!