One for the Memories
The Happy Grandparents
Home Cooked Ngoh Hiang with Minced Pork,Water Chestnut,Carrots,Flour,Salt and Secret Ingredient Sauce
Claypot 'Pan Chai' with Abalone, Fa Chai, Duck's Feet, Mushroom, Roast Pork,Lotus Root from East Ocean Restaurant
Mushrooms with Chicken Feet
Chye Sim Vegetables
All around Singapore and the world, families are gathering for the Annual Reunion Dinner a time honoured tradition where the people relinquish the problems of the Old Year (Rat) and look forward to the New Year (Ox). This New Year, the world is in the grip of a Major Depression and analysts and economists are united in fortelling the grim future.Nonetheless, optimistic Chinese people are carrying on and though there might be some belt tightening, such as not eating out in swanky restaurants and opening thousand dollar bottles of wine, the Reunion Dinner is still a must.
This year, as with last year, the Dinner is held at my house and my wife,May, will go all out to produce 'fine Chinese cuisine'. This year is no different. She specially made the Ngoh Hiang (fried with secret special ingredient),Tom Yam Prawn and the Mushroom Stew -prepared over 2 days to bring out the flavour. Add to that we ordered the special 'Pan Cai' or Claypot and the Roast Duck from top Restaurant East Ocean Teochew Restaurant. To offset all that protein and gout inducing dishes, we also had some humble Chye Sim fried with garlic.
Andrew doing his Robot Dance
The small talk is normally centred around the kids schoolwork and their antics. This year, the elder boy Noel was just reprimanded for throwing an egg (yes) and a stink bomb over to the neighbours, my brother's house. After dinner, there was some entertainment by Andrew performing a robot dance and my niece Hannah, mimicking him as an Egyptian princess.
I anticipate several days of eating at various relatives houses so I would put it in the category of 'carbo -loading' and I would attempt to run off or burn it off at the earliest opportunity.
HAPPY CHINESE NEW YEAR EVERYONE !!
3 comments:
how does ur elder son usually behave at home?is he very grouchy or mature?
"This year, the elder boy Noel was just reprimanded for throwing an egg (yes) and a stink bomb over to the neighbours, my brother's house"
I am a parent too. i am very concerned of my son, Eugene because he is very naughty like noel. Noel is very naughty that he threw egg and fart bomb at his neighbour. I think you should make sure that he learns his lesson if not it will be very bad when he grows up. Eugene like noel is a very naughty boy. Anyway i have learned a lot about teaching children fom this website.
Hi i am a parent of noels friend and my son told me that you fought with your own SON in the basement how do you answer to this??
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