Have a Ball!

It's new year's eve! The last of bit 2011. Squeeze every last drop of fun from it and embrace 2012!

Thursday was also a day off for me, so I brought mum to the market to shop for some Winter Solstice dinner ingredients. Dragged the kid along too. Never a morning person. Actually went to his house to carry him into the car (his pregnant mum tak larat carry that 16kg bundle of naughtiness). Slept all the way to the market. Even refused to change out of his pajamas. Had to give him my Medusa stare. The CNY atmosphere in the market had already began to pick up. Lanterns, decorations, biscuits and songs everywhere. But I have yet to see the illegal fireworks. Ate a simple breakfast of soup noodles and headed home. Mum boiled the tang yuan and made the ginger-gula melaka soup. Just ate a few for tradition's sake. Being his usual unadventurous self, Cyan just sniffed the glutionous rice balls and refused to eat them. Would rather scoop them up with his hands than put them in his mouth. :S. Lepak at home until lunch time, when mum announced that we would be eating out, to which Cyan responded:

"Poh Poh not cook lunch ah? so louyah de"

Kids these days. Brought him to Restoran Yoon Ping. Ordered their Hakka noodles and stewed soya sauce chicken rice. The noodles were OK, but the minced pork was horribly salty and the meat felt a bit reput. Ugh. I also hated the charsiu sauce. Not worthy to be their signature dish. The rice was much better. Washed it down with a cooling cup of lemon juice with sour plum. Back home I watched a few episodes of the new "Journey to the West", a mainland China production. Just needed to make sure the kid got out of my mother's hair while she prepared for the big dinner. Mum outdone herself again. We had lotus root soup with kudzu root and wai san, fried siakap with thai sauce, steamed kampung chicken, mixed vegetables, steamed cod fish and steamed prawns with rice wine. Actually managed to finish everything! Whoah. Also opened a bottle of red wine, but it wasn't very good. Sigh, another year older!

Clear Noodles

Winter Solstice Dinner

Comments

Sharks said…
You are always surrounded by good dishes~ like to read your posts regarding foods...hmmm, so envious, haha!

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