It’s Cookie Season

yesterday was the eve of the Chinese New Year. as is the custom, the family and i pottered off to granddad’s place for the reunion dinner last night. it was awesome - we had steamboat, entirely too much seafood and noodles and the most yummilicious prawns ever. and of course, my favourite foochow fishballs :D and lots of beer. and mandarin oranges. and barbequed meat. and CNY COOKIES!!! wheeeeeeeee.

during dinner, us kids sat around the table listening to our uncle spin tales of the 1960’s and the history of their building. they own a little coffeeshop on Peel Rd, and back in the 80s it used to be the place where all the tai ko’s would go to have their ‘table talks’. uncle was full of stories that night -tales of my dad when he was but a young one, or tales of parangs and severed body parts - and he had us either in stitches or in wide eyed horror.

my mom and i both wore a red top to dinner, and my brothers looked at us weird. “this kind of tradition you all still follow??” they said with raised eyebrows. we had no idea that red was already out of vogue.

there is so much more about cny that i wanna blah about, but the truth is it’s 4pm and i’ve just woken up. i’ve missed half of the first day of Chinese New Year!!! and so i’ve gotta go.. to go do my rounds of angpow-collecting and mandarin orange chomping. heehee.

happy Chinese New Year!

13 comments February 18th, 2007