Chinese New Year is just a few days away and I haven’t seriously think what I am cooking. I am expecting my in-laws troop that will be as many as 40 people on the 2nd day and my siblings on the 3rd day.
Actually I don’t need much planning because I am basically cooking the same stuffs year in, year out. My mom has passed on the legacy of Nyonya cooking to my sisters and I and therefore, what I dished out are usually ‘unique’ to my in-laws who are Hakka. Some past relations with a Cantonese mother of a certain ‘friend’ also gave me the skills of cooking Cantonese food.
I have got ingredients for some of these foods and will be making more trips to the market these few days:
1) Combination of steamed waxed meats including sausages, waxed ducks and various types of meats; (Cantonese food)
2) Jiu Hoo Char (turnips with squids) which is predominantly Nyonya cooking;
3) Kiam Chye Ark or duck with salted vegetables;
4) Fish maw soup
5) Pig’s maw (stomach) soup
6) Kapitan curry chicken
7) Hoi See Fatt Choy (pig’s trotter with dried oysters and some black moss) – another Cantonese ‘must-have’ dish
8) Mix vege
9) Fried chicken (Malay style)
10) Sambal sotong (like those serve with nasi lemak)
11) Loh Bak (meat rolls) pre-made by my sister-in-law
12) Spring rolls
Now, my only dilemma is trying to be fair. LOL. I tend to serve better foods for my ‘side’, i.e. my siblings as there are fewer of them. So, I have to sort out from the above, what to cook on each day.
u kena cook for 40 hungry relativrs ???!!!! OMFG!!!! lidat u can run catering company ledi lol
tabik spring to Lilian. can cook for 40pax alone!
Wow! Can I come up to Penang and join in the 40 pax?
*drool*drool*drool*
anyway Happy Chinese New Year Lilian! 🙂