Happy Lunar New Year!

Happy New Year everyone! I wish everyone a year of abundance in God’s grace and love for the year of the dragon! Loving Chinese new year! My friends are playing mahjong with my mom right outside my room as we speak! Been eating so so so much it’s ridiculous! Not the best week for my new year’s resolution if you can recall.

The feast began the night before CNY… with dumplings at home! Loooooooooved it. I’m an absolute sucker for dumplings. Would love to do a dumpling-eating competition with friends :p

Sweet soup dumplings with sweet potatoes. Used to love these things, but not so much anymore. Maybe it’s because this was served right after the ridiculous amount of dumplings I ate.

*ahem*… This is me busy with wrapping food… Can you guess what it is?

It’s lin-go wrapped in spring roll wraps! Crispy skin with soft, sticky, gooey lin-go inside – absolutely amazing. Amazeballs.

You know what though? As much as I love CNY, that time between meals are quite awkward. Basically as a Chinese person, if you don’t play mahjong you’re just sitting around with your relatives munching on snacks which totally ruin your appetite (and significantly reduces the amount of calories I can consume at dinner!).

So, having spent a few days with my family, I spent 年初三 with my other loved ones – my family from church. Had an absolute blast watching an old Stephen Chow movie, which we saw last CNY together… some sort of tradition maybe? We also had a lot of food. Hear this, we had:

• Cheese – left over from NYE, I think
• Mulled wine – someone felt like it
• Pun-choi which we ordered
• White turnip cakes
• Lin-go
• Osmanthus Cake
• Not one, not two, but three cakes for a birthday – we just really love her
• Too much pistachios along with other sweets that go in those red boxes
• Left over fried rice
• Some kind of roast chicken
• Pork cheek skewers
• We were also supposed to have kimchi which our friend forgot to bring

Yes there was what, 14 of us? – but still, that’s a lot of food.

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