Chinese New Year Eve

* Warning - For those who are overseas and are missing their reunion dinners, please either stop reading this entry or brace yourself for what is to come below... I hope your keyboards are drool proof! : D

Tonight we had our re-union dinner at home in KL. We are blessed to have Daddy's parents here with us. Daddy's brother and sister in-law are Down Under, so we miss them this dinner. As usual, both Grandma and Mummy cooked up a storm (with the help of our Cambodian maid) and we all had a scrumptous dinner. We had curry (prepared by Mummy), pork leg stew (drool, drool), crispy popiah, french beans with shrimp, cauliflower, "lap chiong" with leek, straw mushroom soup and a few other dishes. Yummy! Here are a few pics of the food we had tonight.




















The spread of yummy foods we had...ranging from duck to pork to veggies...






































Lap Chiong (the reddish looking meat) with leek above.

To accompany the meal, we had a bottle of white wine (Similon Chardonnay); fruity and not too dry. It was lovely. The kids did not drink of course... but had their soup instead.

For dessert, we had Fruit 'Agar Agar' (a type of jelly) and Ferrero Roche chocolate (The tray of chocolate was a gift from the Lais to celebrate the New Year. There was also nice BBQ pork, "lap chiong" and oranges in the offering. Yum Yum!)

After dessert, we had a video call with Daddy's brother and sister in-law in Australia. It was good to see them and hear them and exchange news with them. Oh, and Daddy brought out the expresso machine and all had coffee. Now we wonder if we will all be able to sleep after taking our caffiene for the week (?) in one night.

Oh well, tonight being the eve of the year of the Rat, we will stay up late to welcome the new year. MAybe there will be fire crackers and fireworks (?). Fyi, they are banned in Malaysia.

Let us wish all readers of our blog a very Happy and Prosperous (Blessed) year of the Rat. Some say that it is "Mickey Mouse" year but we shall say that it is the Year of the Lord's favour! 2008... a new beginning! God bless you all!