the last 2011 cny post

wow..... i haven't got one in a while *grin*

 

 

my leftover cup from australia day!!!

 

 

 

 

 

i got lucky this year and came home with an angpau ... one that wasn't given from a family member!! hahaha anyhows....cny is over and am really glad i got to have yee sang twice... the last before chap goh meh (chinese valentine's day & the last day of cny) we gathered to have one more chinese new year dinner for 2011. the usual - heaps of food... so much that a few of us went back another day to help finish it up >_< we went on to have a round of cranium where i know now for sure i can't draw, whenever KT guesses, choose the opposite and you'll have the right answer, and the experienced players failed at the game that night. the laughter comes standard with the game and i went to work the next day with a very sexy voice.

without the "yee sang"

 

you can never have too many chinese new year dinners. although we didn't manage to get any yee sang, there was plenty of food. i am proud to say that my steam prawns were tasty (to me) though it was my first time making it and we had a very nice prawn peeler in clara >_<

 

 

 

the highlight of the night was dessert made by kei. it's weird to pronounce to obviously i don't remember what it is called -_- not only were we all so intrigued while he put the dessert together, we were politely fighting for the extra plates. that couple will definitely be invited for dinner anywhere *grin*

oh and you can't forget the cny cookies that alex brough back.... *happy happy* this is all i get :(

lou arr lou arrr

finally! on the fourth day of chinese new year i finally get to eat yee sang. if we were back home in kl, it would probably be our fifth or sixth one by now. but oh well.... what can we do. we were having our cny dinner with some friends at lotus inn in wahroonga, the restaurant belonged to a friend's family, and didn't really know what to expect since i had never been there before. the yee sang was absolutely delicious, it was so fresh and full of crispy stuff, the kind i like *grin*

 

we had 14 people on our table so we had double of everything including yee sang. the seafood was awesome, the fish was super HUGE (sorry the fish wasn't on my side of the table so i didn't take a pic plus the lazy susan wasn't spinning right) ... if i ever bought a fish so big, i won't even have anything to cook it it. the best part was that the whole fish was cooked really well! o_O and being so deprived of chinese new year cookies, i didn't want to let go of the tub of macadamia nut and almond cookies. oh...how i miss these treats. *fingers crossed* i'll get to lou sang a couple more times....