Chinese tea vs soft drinks

All my four grand children like to drink my frshly brew tea when they come visiting.

After playing they even ask me to brew tea to drink duirng Chinese new year no more drinking tea their favourite drink Pop and vitagen.

Reunion Dinner

The reunion dinner on the eve of lunar new year at home to me is still the best, with married daughter and son and their family coming for the home for the reunion dinner.

I still remember a few year back there was one reunion dinner at a restaurant as I do not want mywife to work so hard cooking for the reunion dinner but after the dinner when we return home it was so quiet as after dinner all chidren went back to their home.

Reunion dinner at our house with all the grandchildren having a good time palying around with so much noise before and after dinner is like music to me, the atomsphere of new year in the house.

Reunion dinner dishes

Free run chicken cook using he same method as taught by my mother.

Fried fish with special sauce and fried vegetables with chicken spare parts normally do not eat any spare parts but the kampong chicken spare parts just too good.

All in we finish about 5 plates of raw organic vege.

Reunion Dinner 020211

Fried crispy prawns with cereals a dish by Mimi as she wanted to less her Mother burden of cooking for the yearly reunion dinner.

BBQ pork and below BBQ pork wiht sea cucumber and fish stomach, mushroom.

Lunar New Year Eve prayer ceremony

This morning wake up by 1630 hrs and leave for the wet market to buy the neccessary food stuffs for prayer in the eve of lunar new year, according to my wife who know how to read the Tung Shi book the time best time for prayer will be 5am - 10am.

By 0700 all the food stuffs offer for prayer ready and first to pray is to the Heavenly Gods.

Offering include 3 cups of Chinese tea, 5 cups of rice wine, boil chicken using free run chicken, according to my mother the chicken must nicely boil without any broken skin etc, this time my wife very happy it is well done. The very early monring rush to wet market is to buy BBQ pork, if later the best choice no more available,a big pomelo, lettuce, spring onion,garland chrysanthemun, nian gao and oranges.

Lunar New Year Eve prayer

After prayer to the heavenly gods, then it is into the house with all the offering, to pray to our the 7 gods, which is pratice by my father, out of the 4 sons I am the only son continue the same prayer procedurs for Lunar New year all all other Chinese practices and customs throughout the year.

Lunar New Year Eve prayer

After prayer to Di G ( earth deities) then next and final prayer will be our ancestors to ask for blessing for the whole year round.