To some people, the Chinese are probably the world most greediest gluttons. Every Chinese New Year, you can see hoards of people buying food stuffs like there is a famine or some emergency food shortage coming. I too have wondered where those extra cans of foods, mountain loads of oranges, hills of cookies and cakes […]
If I am read correctly, Hungry Ghost Festival falls on August 1, 2008. It is the first day of the Chinese seventh lunar month. It is the time when some Chinese believe that the souls from the netherworld are let out of their underground world and allowed to roam on earth. That’s why you will […]
Tomorrow, 4th April is the real Ching Ming festival. However, my hubby and his siblings had Ching Ming for my in-laws yesterday. He brought home so many pigs, ducks, chickens, cakes and fruits until my fridge couldn’t accommodate. Ching Ming festival is basically the clearing of our ancestors’ graves. Ching Ming can be carried out […]
My four sisters-in-law are back to their most favourited season of the year. Ching Ming or the annual clearance of the graves fall on April 4th every year. They are now planning how to fit into the annual homage to their parents’ grave and their own inlaws’ graves. The amount of phone calls they made […]
I don’t know to be proud that they think I am so dependable or be pissed that they think I am doormat superwoman. Never mind, Chinese New Year is only once a year
If you are a Penangite and are a Hokkien or at least some relations to Hokkien folks, this is one of the must have dish for Chinese New Year. Almost every home has it. But, the difference is in the flavour of the dish. Some of my relatives cook this but they taste just flat […]