Gong Xi! Gong Xi! Honestly, this year not much mood for Chinese New Year... why? Because I didn't get to buy lots of new clothes to wear. Well not that I buy lots of clothes every year but at the very least the whole set from top to toe, in and out that can last at the very least 2 days. The main reason is because I'm now 8 months pregnant and I'm not willing to spend so much on maternity clothing which I know I will not wear after I deliver. In the end, I only manage to get a pair of shoe, a denim skirt, legging and bra.
Every year, on the first day of CNY we have a fixed set of routine to follow. We will wake up early and get ready for our visiting. Usually, we will not have breakfast at home first but this year because I get really hungry when I wake up so I decided to have breakfast at home. My in-laws also prepared breakfast which consist of mee sua soup which I didn't eat and choose to have bread instead. Little did I know that it is a tradition for Hokkiens to have mee sua on the first day of CNY to represent longevity. Oh well, as I mentioned in my earlier posts, I am still having my set of breakfast ie orange juice, milk, papaya so with all that somehow mee sua just don't seem to fit in. More over, I really don't fancy having noodles for breakfast. The only Asian breakfast I can take is Roti Canai or Nasi Lemak.
Anyway, after breakfast we left the house and headed towards Klang. The first house that we visited is our 5th grand aunt's family. She's a very warm and kind hearted lady. First thing she offered is to have breakfast again! She fried some vegetarian bee hoon and boiled barley with gingko nuts and longan. My FIL continue chit chatting with the rest of the family while hubby and I watch TV in the living room. My SIL managed to catch up with us and all we do is just watch tv and wait for the green light to leave for the next house.
Second house that we visited in Klang is 1st grand aunt's family. This year they are mourning but we still visit just to see how she's coping with the lost of her husband recently. Again, the younger generations will have our own little session while waiting for my FIL comforting our grand aunt. The topic in this house was how she manage to clean all the figurines without a maid. Imagine the amount of display items she has we have estimated that if she cleans it one a day it will take her more than a year!
At about 11.30am we adjourned to 7th grand aunt's family. Every year, they will have an open house luncheon. Therefore, we are there every year for lunch. The lunch is prepared by their house maid and at the same time they also cater Satay which is delicious! The must have is the chicken pie... yum yum! I used to love the sambal sotong but somehow this year I'm not sure whether is it my pregnancy or my taste bud has changed as I find it too spicy for my liking. After lunch, is time to go home to rest and get ready for dinner.
We used to eat out for dinner on the first day of CNY. However, since last year we all have decided not to because we are all very bored with the set menu offered by chinese restaurants. We decided to have pot luck. I cooked chili mussels with garlic bread. My eldest SIL cooked shepperd's pie while my 2nd SIL cooked lamb stew. We also had imported roast pork from Philippines. All of us agreed that all this are much better than the 10 course dinner. The kids enjoyed a few rounds of X Box Kinect till the extend that they do not want to go home.
Second day of CNY, we have lunch at another relative house in Shah Alam. Usually, this family will have open house for dinner but plans changed this year. Anyway, we had fried "rice cake", porridge, fried tang hoon, loh bak, pie tee and for dessert I had sago gula melaka. As for dinner, we just had simple dishes at home.
Third day of CNY, again we went out for lunch with more relatives. We went to Rakuzen in Empire. One of the relatives also brought some fried 'new year cake' with yam. One of my favourite food during CNY besides from all the pineapple tarts, kuih kapit and fried arrowroot chips. As for dinner, we planned to have BBQ. Unfortunately, it was pouring really bad and we had to change our plans. We end up cooking the marinated meat on the stove and we used the hot plate to cook some bacon to preserve the heat for the cooked meat. Even though our plans changed at the very last minute we all still enjoyed ourselves. My eldest SIL made some really good salad! Well I must say she have not failed in any of her salad! While my second SIL made jacket potato. Haven't have them for ages! Reminds me of my favourite from Oliver Sandwich. Jacket potato with sour cream and bacon bits! Lovely!! As for dessert we had mango puding with nata de coco and ice cream potong.
Fourth day of CNY, we decided to have something light. We decided to go Alexis in Gardens to have lunch. I ordered a caesar salad while hubby ordered his favourite Alexis burger. I also ordered bread and butter pudding as my dessert. Yummy!! My FIL also joined us for lunch. He ordered a smoked salmon sandwich. After lunch, we went into Robinson for a walk before we head home and rest for dinner. We had dinner at Green View in SS2 with some relatives. We had their specialty which is 'Sang Har' Noodles. We also ordered some lala, chicken, suckling pig, sea cucumber and steam cod fish.
After the fourth day, things start to mellow down. We decided to head back to Subang to stay over and because I took leave for 2 days I make full use of it by resting at home! Phew.... what a week it was!
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