CNY Reunion

Have been doing this for the passed years since Mom in Law passed away in January 2003.

Gotta make sure or buy all the ingredients in advance, ready to cook for CNY Eve prayers to ancestors and CNY Eve Reunion Dinner.  Certain dishes can be cooked earlier to have a better taste such as Jiu Hoo Char and Acar

Lou Sang! Heng, Ong, Huat

CNY Eve Feast

Whole Chicken Steam

Steam Chicken (marinate with salt) + bruised/slice ginger

Dipping Sauce – parsley/garlic/cili padi/lime/sugar/soy sauce

 

Steam or Blanch Fah Lam

Daun Bawang + Daun Sup

 Sang choy (Chinese Lettuce) 

Jiu Hoo Char

Sengkuang (Turnip) 1 big 1 small

Fah Lam 1

Taucheong

Big onion 1 or 2

Dried strip cuttlefish

Dark Soy Sauce

Salt

 

Acar

Cucumber 2

Carrot 2

Pineapple 1

French Bean 15

Cili blend serai kunyit

Buah keras

Belacan

Rice vinegar

Sugar

Salt

 

Soup

Rosted pork trotter

Ham choy

Salt depends on saltiness of both ingredients

 

 

Curry Pork/Chicken

Slice siong yook or chung chui yook or chicken

Cili blend

Blend Spices – coriander seed, cumin, fennel seed, star anise, cloves, cinnamon stick

Curry leaves

Coconut milk

Salt

 

Assam Prawn

Big/Medium size prawn shell intact

Marinate with assam paste, sugar, salt

 

Treasure Pot – Braised (oyster sauce etc)

Sea Cucumber

Fish Maw

Mushroom

Dried Osyter

Dried Scallop

Abalone

 

I only cook the Treasure pot for dinner.