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Chinese New Year 2012 – family lunch

30 January 2012
Roasted pork belly, Chinese New Year 2012

Happy New Year! Kong Hei Fatt Choy!
We get together for our family reunion lunch at my parents’ home on Chinese New Year eve.
We begin the meal with yee sang, a raw fish salad (in Chinese, “yee” means fish, “sang” means raw). Yee sang is eaten by many Chinese Malaysian families at new year as ...

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Dim sum at Northbridge Chinese Restaurant, Northbridge

25 January 2012
Steamed prawn dumplings (har gow), Northbridge Chinese Restaurant, Northbridge

We’re meeting my friend Charlene for dim sum breakfast. All I’ve had since waking up is a cup of tea, and I am ravenous. Charlene has been telling me all about Northbridge Chinese Restaurant’s deep-fried soft shell crab and I can’t wait to taste it for myself. By the time we arrive in Northbridge, ...

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Caleb’s first birthday party

16 January 2012
Caleb, 1 year old

Photos and stories from my nephew’s first birthday party.

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Christmas 2011 – family lunch

26 December 2011
Baked ham, Christmas 2011

My family’s Christmas lunch, featuring garlic prawns, filo cigars, baked ham with pineapple, roast beef, trifle and Elvis Sandwich macarons.

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Mum’s Hokkien mee recipe

24 October 2011
My mum's hokkien mee

Whenever we have a family get-together, I hope my mum will cook up a batch of her hokkien mee. To my delight, more often than not, she walks in with a big pot of noodles.

My mum’s Hokkien mee

I’ve had lots of requests for my mum’s Hokkien mee recipe since my recent post about my ...

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Ruby’s 4th birthday

5 October 2011
Echidna ice cream cake for Ruby's 4th birthday

It’s my niece Ruby’s 4th birthday and we’re celebrating with afternoon tea. This year, she’s crazy about pink. She’s had a pink party with some of her school friends earlier in the week and there will be more pink treats and surprises for her this afternoon.

Welcome to Ruby’s house!

Ruby’s grandma isn’t well ...

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Fathers day family afternoon tea

21 September 2011
Afternoon tea

“I’m hungry,” my niece Ruby whispers, as she plays with her cutlery.
“So am I,” I whisper back.
She giggles and we grin at each other.

Ruby, waiting for food

It’s fathers day and we’re at family afternoon tea. We don’t really celebrate fathers day as such, but we’ve got a few treats for the dads in our ...

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New York Times spicy, supercrunchy fried chicken

5 September 2011
New York Times fried chicken

Jac made “spicy, supercrunchy fried chicken” for lunch with friends at our house recently. The recipe came from The Essential New York Times Cook Book: Recipes for a New Century (2010).
The recipe begins:
Ready for a tip that will change your life? You don’t need to deep-fry chicken: you can shallow-fry it ...

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Family lunch, Jac’s first roast duck a l’orange

31 August 2011
Duck a l'orange

We hosted a family lunch recently at our home to celebrate Jac’s mum Pattycakes’ birthday. Jac loves to cook for company and had a great time planning and preparing the meal. I helped her with recipe research and the boring stuff like setting the table on the day. :)
Our starter dish was prawns sauteed in ...

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Quiz night food

22 August 2011
Jac's savoury eggs

A couple of weekends ago, Jac and I went to a quiz night with my siblings and their partners. It was a fundraiser for Jac’s hockey club.
We all brought food, of course.
Jac made her savoury eggs (some people call them deviled eggs).
Jac’s never written her recipe down – ...

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