Chinese Reunion Dinner

Once you are married, is the tradition your reunion dinner will no longer be with your own parents and siblings according to Chinese custom. Unless your families members are in the same town, lots still practiced reunion with your husband's family members and also your own family members which can be done earlier. 

Being in the busy city, if family members hardly see each other, the reunion dinner holds more meaning of feasting together while catching up with each other.  

Normally my husband's family will have the same tradition food yearly as the feast for the reunion dinner.  In the morning, I would be busy preparing all the tradition food for ancestor worship.  The dishes being Penang Hokkien will be Jiu hoo char (stir fry yam bean with shredded dried cuttlefish and pork belly) , Kiam Chai (pickled mustard green) soup with roasted pig trotter, steam whole chicken, azzam prawn, acar (pickled of cucumber, pineapple, carrot and french bean), curry chicken or pork.  Besides the traditional food, we will have stew abalone with fish maw, oyster and mushroom.

For those whose parents are outstation, they will have to travel earlier back to their hometown in order to back home by eve of Chinese New Year for the reunion dinner.

But nowadays, since both husband and wife are mostly working, lots have chosen to have their reunion dinner at restaurant instead of homecooked meal. This is also due to parents are of old aged and no longer can dish up so many types of food for the celebration.

This is the beginning of the next 15 days which Chinese celebrates for their Chinese New Year, giving red packet to the youngs and singles, also to the elderly relatives or friends, visiting each other.

 

Jiu Hoo Char

Abalone stew oysters & fish maw

Azam koh prawn

Curry Meat

Acar