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CNY in Far Far Away Kingdom

Here comes a proper post finally. This is gonna be a super long post with lotsa pictures. Sorry if you find it hard to scroll. Haha. But I wish to keep a copy of these pictures in my blog. =) Happy Chinese New Year everyone! Though today is like the 18th day of the new year dy. It's my first chinese new year away from home and it was indeed a memorable one. Memorable in terms of many things had happened and I felt really grateful that those not-so-good things had finally come to an end now. Feel myself have been through a lot actually. Probably cause I am away from home and so make things slightly worse. Or probably a lot worse I would say. Haha. Have been calling home very frequently lately, hopefully my family wont get annoyed. =))))) But hearing their voices really makes everything way better. =) So this was my CNY in 2011....

Decoration by the house creative director


Malaysian feel =)

I am one who doesnt eat cookies back in Malaysia. But somehow, this year when I don't get to eat, I crave for them. And I have lovely friends who share =)

These two are homemade fried crabsticks and seaweed by Wen. Yummy!

And here goes the house 7A reunion lunch for Chinese New Year!

Chicken herbal soup with mushrooms and scallops and our very own four season!


My favourite chinese leaf with scallops and ginger onion fish.


Then our man tou with dong po rou and tong yun as dessert.

This was for decorative purpose.

And this was how much food we had in actual.

THE DAY BEFORE FIRST DAY OF CNY
Venue: City Road
Time: 7.00pm



Lou sang!

Super duper yummy dumplings by Winston and braised pork belly by my ah ma!

Vegetables


Winston's herbal chicken soup and limited edition sweet and sour fish


Very own steamed chicken with malaysian style chilli


Super big tong yun with peanut filling

DAY 1 OF CNY
Vegetarian meal during lunch


Dinner
Venue: May Sum
Time: 7.00pm


Teepanyaki with my self designed dessert plate


With greetings from green lion =)

DAY 2 of CNY
Venue: House 7A
Time: 7.30pm



Prawn Noodles with Yetshin!

Dessert session
Venue: Greenfield Road
Time: 9.00pm

I will remember this day. Definitely will. And everything I ate that day would remind me of the incident. I did not choose to go London because of this gathering. Because of the crowd. Because of my friend who came all the way from Birmingham. Did I make the right choice? I believe so. Cause I think everything is fated to be.

Fried sweet potatoes balls. And can't believe I could eat the sweet potato & sticky rice cake here.


Zi Kai's mochi with nutella. =)


Wen's fried seaweed.


It's very crowded. Attendance rate : very satisfying.

It's like famine when we wanted to try tong shui. 4 types of tong shui! And gambling as usual.

DAY 9 of CNY
Venue: Nottingham & Malaysia
Time: Nottingham(4.00pm) Malaysia(12.00am)

Time to bai ti gong =)


DAY 10 of CNY
Baking session

Cake made on request. =) Glad that it din turn out bad.


Wen's steam cake. Nice! And it's alot!

DAY 11 of CNY
Venue: Bonzai
Time 1.15pm

Celebrating Siaw's birthday

From the restaurant


Birthday boy's seafood don


Happy birthday Siaw!


DAY 12 of CNY aka Valentine's Day
Venue: QMC and House 7A
Time: Candle-light Dinner at 7pm


Can I count these as my valentine's prezzie? Lol


And the candlelight dinner and real present =)


Evonne's super yummy and now famous tortilla =) And spicyMAX peanut utter pasta.


Guest of the day, Kai Yee's cheese baked mushroom

DAY 14 of CNY

Baked this for Siaw's real birthday. But FAIL. Sad. But he still ate it. Though he also said fail. Lol


Next, group's discussion.
Venue: Claude Street
Time: 2.00pm


Herb spaghetti. Nice. But super big plate. Haha

DAY 15 of CNY aka Chap Goh Mei
Venue: Claude Street
Time: from 7.00pm to 7.45pm to 8.15pm


Seriously tempted to throw mandarin orange into the lake. Haha. And Jelly from Mich!=)


Appetizer


Fu Yong Tan and Celery with mushrooms by Ann!


Secret recipe of Sweet sour fish by Leslie with JooLian's belacan beans


Super nice prawn with herbal steamed chicken by Leslie also


Another secret recipe of tom yam alike squid by again Leslie with ah ma's braised pork


See the amount of food? I wud say this meal is of restaurant standard. No joke. SUPER yummy! Leslie you could be chef if you don't wanna be a pharmacist =P


After 90mins. Still. A lot!


Tong Shui! Fu Chuk Barley with ginkgo and sweet potatoes with green beans and sago!

Yes. It's again all bout food. Nice and yummy foooooood! This is what Chinese do during new year don't we? Eat and eat and eat. Good sign. Shows that we have enough food throughout the year. =) Happy bunny year! May this be a prosperous and healthy year to you, with all your dreams will be fulfilled!

Okay time to study for my dermatology test. =D Signing off!