Sha Niu’s Story

At first when my parents told me that we will be celebrating CNY in Australia for 2010, i was so thrown back because I managed to stop that from happening in 2009 but I can’t believe that the idea was still lingering in their minds! While I was too busy plotting of a way to stop that and thinking of ways why i SHOULD NOT celebrate CNY here in Perth, I forgotten the fact that CNY is all about being together as a family.

I like the fact that we’re all together when my mum is whipping up a good ol’ reunion dinner for us. She did told me once that she was very excited as this was the first time she’s cooked reunion dinner for us during CNY because we always patronize the restaurants with the other relatives these past few years and my aunt used to cook in my grandfather’s house last time. I still remember though, my favourite meal was nuggets with rice and soup? AH it’s funny how the simple things like these makes my day so much better back when i was a kid.

Lo and behold! This is what my mum took a few hours to prepare for our Reunion dinner!

Braised Mushrooms with abalone! Got to say I don’t really like abalones because they only have the abalone-ish taste which is abaloneish only wat! I prefer mushrooms still!

Stir-fry Cauliflower with prawns!

Steamed Fish with my favourite bird eye chillies!

This one however hohohoho, we got it from our favourite HK bbq restaurant! I have to take some credit here, because I was the one whom assembled the duck nicely like ones they serve in the nicer restaurants!

I have no freaking idea what you call this in English, but in Malay, it’s sayur kering sup? It’s some dried vegetable we got from the oriental shop and my mummy put lots of dried scallops in it!

Voila! Here’s to a better new year ahead of us! I know, no yee sang this time cause we thought that might as well just stuff ourselves full with the dinner rather than not having any stomach space left for the yummy goodness!

After the super nice dinner, mum surprised us with dessert! It’s snow fungus with dried longans and many many more awesome goodies in it which I don’t know! A sweet ending and that’s just the way I love things to be.

Since it’s the year of the Tiger, I took the excuse to give my nails a little something extra special! I’m out of black nail polish that time so do excuse the purple stripes but I think it turned out quite okay! I used a toothpick so do ignore the fatter stripes.

As I was still on break during the CNY period, I woke up to a house filled with the smell of yam cake! In my head, I knew that it was my mummy preparing for our breakfast in the kitchen. The bliss of having to wake up and having your breakfast served without the trouble of doing anything is absolutely heavenly!

Sometimes I really do wonder, when can I start cooking dishes that taste at least half as tasty as my mummy’s cooking or when can I even start cooking more than ten dishes! I sure do know that I’ve saved down quite a hugee list of recipes from the internet but I never really got the patience to do it whole-heartedly. Sigh the same thing happens to my fashion project in my cupboard. But oh wells, I’m having two weeks break next week and I’ll upload the food my mummy cooked for us on the 2nd day of CNY and I can assure you it’s going to be posted in less than a few days time!