Posts under ‘Chinese New Year & festivals’

Recipes for Chinese New Year cookies

ShareMy son came into my room, asking me if I have any good recipes for cookies. Well, I told him, go Google it. Your ma’s recipes are all online. Just google malaysiabest cookies recipes and you will find them.
So, here are some of the recipes which I have tried and tested.
Melting moments [...]

Steamboat before Chinese New Year

ShareI love steamboat. But my whole family don’t. So, they hate going to steamboat restaurants. One will say the steamboat smell cling to the shirt. One will question why they need to cook their own foods. And the husband will asked, “Why don’t they just cook noodle soup with all [...]

Chinese New Year traditional cakes – Bee hive

ShareI had made this bee hive cake before but it was too tedious. So, after one attempt, the brass mould is getting mouldy. In fact, I cannot even remember where I stuffed it.

Many years later, I have one kid who likes this bee hive cake. Otherwise, this is never a feature in [...]

Chap Goh Meh and pengat sweet ending to Chinese New Year

ShareI have not been posting much because too much eating has left me so filled and I just cannot bring myself to write about foods anymore. I think all the Chinese who celebrated Chinese New Year knows the feeling of being too ‘jelak’ from eating the rich and flavourful foods meant for Chinese [...]

The only big meal I cooked for Chinese New Year

ShareI think every families should have an aunt somewhere who not only likes to cook, she likes to do a ‘one leg kick all show’. One of the gatherings my family have was at my eldest sister’s home. She lives in a semi-detached home so there is plenty of space to house all [...]