CNY 2013 Celebration!

A quick post on my CNY 2013 celebration! I literally feast my way through the month of Feb 2013...lol!

The preparation of the celebration started with spring cleaning and simple decoration at home! Followed by marathon baking of CNY goodies! Thanks again to Roger, Sharon and Sandra for the goodies you gave me and hope all of you enjoyed mine too!  

My CNY Bakes 2013!

A sum up of my 2013 CNY bakes! This year CNY came late so I had more time to bake. Started my baking marathon about 2 weeks before the celebration. 

This year I had baked 8 varieties of goodies which include pineapple tarts, macadamia nut sugee, butter cookies, cashew nut cookies, chocolate chips cookies, green tea snow balls, London almond cookies  and bak kwa cookies! Very productive indeed! Hope it was well received and enjoyed! 

Aspiring Bakers #15: Auspicious Dishes for CNY (Jan 12) ~ Roundup

Finally, the CNY celebration has finally come to an end, so have you been enjoying the celebrations and non stop feasting...Well just hope that all of you have a fabulous CNY 2012 that give you a good start at the beginning of the Year of Dragon. It's also time to do a round up for Aspiring Bakers #15 - Jan 12.

As we believe many of you were tied up with activities during the festive period so we had extended the closing date till yesterday (06/02/12). Glad that with the extension, entries started coming in though responses were not as good as baking theme but still not too bad. A total of 95 entries were received! Thanks Small Small Baker for giving me this opportunity to host and all the participants who make this event a successful one. I enjoyed it tremendously and been drooling at all the dishes every night when I checked my emails....lol!

The CNY menu looks really sumptuous! Don't you think so… we have received a good selection of recipes for starters/appetisers, soups, main dishes, vegetable dishes, rice/noodles and desserts. Do come back again if you need ideas for preparing a homecooked feast!

Chinese New Year Day 7 Lunch & Lo Hei

On Day 7 (人日) of CNY 2012, I played host and invited my close friends with their families over to my place for lunch. Quite a norm to do so and always the last stop is my place. We cooked some simple stuff and ordered some items.  

A simple and yet enjoyable lunch... glad that my guests enjoyed it! So what's on the menu, enjoy!

CNY 2012 - Day 1

On first day of CNY, is always a stay home day for me. As usual we prepared lunch for our visiting relatives. With Aunt around, everything were whipped up quickly. Yeah... thanks Aunt!     

A simple lunch with some left over from reunion dinner.

CNY 2012 - Reunion Dinner

On the eve of the Chinese Lunar New Year, every family would gather together to have a wonderful meal at home or in restaurants. This is known as the reunion dinner and is the most important family meal for the Chinese. This year we had steamboat at home for our reunion dinner.

The preparation of the dinner started early in the morning. While aunt was busying in the kitchen, I was decorating the house for CNY. All ready to welcome the Year of Dragon by noon, then I joined my aunt in the dinner preparation.

Happy Dragon Year! Gong Xi Fa Cai Everyone!

Wishing all my readers A very Happy and Prosperous Chinese New Year! Great health, luck, happiness and of course good food throughout the Year of Dragon!

PrimaDeli's Fortune Pineapple Tarts

Usher into the Year of Dragon with PrimaDeli's Chinese New Year goodies! This year PrimaDeli is bringing back its much loved pineapple tarts in three selections - Fortune Pineapple Tarts, Pillow Pineapple Tarts and Divine Pineapple Tarts. Among them, the Fortune Pineapple Tarts are more unique as they are individually packed in auspicious red organza bags to retain freshness. An elegant and perfect festive gift to give and receive. Click here to view PrimaDeli's Chinese New Year promotional items!

PrimaDeli's Fortune Pineapple Tarts are available in all PrimaDeli's outlets at $1.60 per bag.

Post CNY celebration at home

20 Feb 2011

Invited my buddies over to my place for lunch, a post CNY celebration. My friends love our cooking and always look forward to the meals we prepared. Let's take a look at what we served for lunch...some prepared by me and some by Aunt.

Abalone Chicken Porridge

A mixture of calrose rice and Thai fragrant rice, give a thick and smooth texture porridge. Aunt used a whole chicken, dried scallops & abalone broth to boil the porridge to give a very rich and flavourful porridge. She also added pacific clam in. Very delicious! Most of us took at least 2 bowls.


Paper Wrapped Chicken

Used to be a popular dim sum item in the earlier days. Now is not so commonly seen. My aunt has a very good recipe and I had made quite a few times in the past. My friends love it too so I decided to make some. Will share the recipe in my next post.


The marinated chicken with spring onion and shredded ginger were wrapped in the paper (specially for frying) and deep fried. The chicken was flavourful and juicy. Yummy!


Puffy Prawn Fritters

Made this again as my uncle love it very much. Kept singing praises since he had it on reunion dinner.


See recipe here.


Fried Bee Hoon with Canned Stewed Pork Ribs

See recipe here.


Valerie's Durian Rolls

Purple Sage Catering

11 Feb 2011

We were invited to boss's house for CNY dinner last Friday after work. It's another annual affair and the caterer for the evening was the same as last year - Purple Sage. Food qualities were generally not bad with more hits than misses but I didn't like the way they presented the buffet spread. I find it pretty messy and not appealing. Hence, most of us preferred the food served from the chefs at the live stations. Fresh, piping hot and all tasted very good. Prata, tempura and laksa all fared above average. I didn't take many photos as I was busying with majong...lol and the lighting was very dim! Only manage to snap some photos of the food when I arrived where the sky was still bright at 6 plus in the evening.

Peach Blossom Menu @ S$60+/Pax
Chef - S$200+ ea, Service staff - S$80+ ea

Live stations with chef:1. Roti prata complete with Dhal curry

2. Assorted Tempura Prawn and vegetables

3. Purple Sage's Laksa with prawn slices, beancurd, beansprouts in thick rich laksa gravy.


Buffet table:1. Aupicious Combo
Marinated topshell with onion, ginger flower & plum sauce / Jelly fish with mango salad top with crispy cuttlefish / Marinated baby octopus with sesame / Chicken terrine with carrot, enoki mushroom & superior aspic

2. Fish Maw Soup

3. Double Boiled Chicken with Ginseng

4. Stir Fried Crispy Prawn with Salted Egg Yolk

5. Deep Fried Fish Fillet with Mango & Peach Chutney

6. Steamed Tofu with Shitake Mushroom, Dry Scallop & Egg White Sauce

7. Wok Fried Scallop with Celery in Crispy Yam Ring

8. Steamed Jasmine Rice with Chinese Chicken Sausage & Shitake Mushroom

9. White Fungus with Gingko Nut & Red Date

10. Festive Mango Mist


www.purplesage.com.sg

CNY 2011 Day 6 - 开工大吉!

8 Feb 2011

Start work on the 6th day of CNY! A tradition to invite lion dance troop to bless the workplace on the day and follow with a catered buffet lunch with 'Lo Hei'. DeliHub Catering under Neo Group is always the preferred halal certified caterer for their quality food and consistency. That's explain why they has been the caterer for this day for the past years. Over the years, we tried many other caterers on different occasion but most of us still preferred Neo Group.

CNY Menu - S$13.99 per pax

1. Fa Cai Yu Sheng
2. Deep Fried Platter
3. Butter Prawn
4. Curry Chicken
5. Sweet & Sour Fish
6. Loh Han Chye
7. Fried Rice with Silver Fish
8. Fried Hong Kong Noodles
9. Mini Chocolate Eclair
10. Sago Honeydew
11. Fruit Punch


DeliHub Catering
6A Wan Lee Road Level 3
Singapore 627938
Tel : 6515 0020
Fax : 6515 0607
Email : enquiry@delihub.com.sg
Operating Hours
Mon to Thu: 08.30am to 20.30pm
Fri to Sun: 08.30am to 19.00pm


Year of Rabbit 2011 - Tong Tong Chang!



Counting down to Yuan Xiao (元宵) - last day of CNY 17/2/11

CNY - 1st day of Rabbit Year 2011

3rd Feb 2011

This year was a very quiet CNY for me. Most of time I was at home. Didn't do much visiting and not much festive mood too. Only on the 1st day of CNY we did some cooking for the visiting relatives. It's a norm for us to cook lunch on the 1st day of CNY. This was what we prepared ...

Kimbap, Pepper & Salt Chicken, Prawn Fritters, Balachan Beehoon, Fish Ball & Mini Abalone Soup.


A simple Korean fare for my uncle's family who's dropping by for dinner.

Spicy Korean Rice Cake, Saba Fish, Hot Bean Paste Pork & Clam Soup, Escargot.

Reunion Dinner CNY 2011 - Part II

2nd Feb 2011

Beside the 'Pen Cai' from TungLok, we had fish head steamboat, broccoli with scallops and fried puffy prawns too. Though rather easy to cook up but we were still very busy on the eve, actually was Aunt more busy...lol! I only helped to set up the table and fried the prawns. We managed to get the dinner ready before everyone arrived.

Yusheng @ TungLok

The dinner kicked off with the Lo Hei. I bought additional salmon sashimi for the yusheng. It's really appetizing to start off with this.


Crispy Puffy Prawns

This was a crowd pleaser. Everyone give thumb up for this. I will post up the recipe later.


Broccoli with Fresh Scallops

Fish Head Steamboat

Aunt is very good at Fishhead steamboat. Simple and delicious. Red Grouper Fish was unbelievably expensive during the festive. We bought it at S$60/kg and the plate of fish fillet cost me S$120! I think was my first time paying so much for fish from the market. However it was worth as the fish was very fresh and tender.


Dessert - Fresh Durian

What's an indulgence...lol! My brother contributed the durian for dessert but most of us were to full to eat after all the food.


CNY 2011 Reunion Dinner @ Home

Reunion Dinner CNY 2011 - Part I: TungLok Premium Treasure Bowl Takeaway Trio

2nd Feb 2011

Our reunion dinner this year was at home again but not much preparation needed. That's because my uncle ordered a premium 'pen cai' from Tung Lok at The Paramount. The premium trio package includes a 'Pen Cai', Prosperity Salmon Yusheng and Kampong Chicken with ginger paste. A complimentary Fried 'Ying Yang' Glutinous Rice with Preserved Meat was given for every takeaway trio ordered.

Premium Treasure Bowl (Pen Cai) takeway trio - S$598.00+ (for 10 persons)

The sauce for the 'Pen Cai' was packed separately. Pour it in and heat up together before serving.

The packaging was really nice. The earthern claypot and gift box were specially designed for the 'Pen Cai'.


16 auspicious ingredients:
Fresh shark's fin, 6-head abalone, whole dried scallops, fried fish maw, pork shank, sea cucumber, scallops, prawns, dried oysters, smoked duck breast, black moss, bailing mushroom, shitake mushrooms, bean dough, lotus roots & chinese cabbage.

The ingredients were all nicely braised and fresh but the sauce was just too sweet. Would prefer it to be more savoury instead. The one at Lam's tasted so much better even though not so many type of premium ingredients but these were so expensive. Is it worth to spend so much on a pot like these...? Hehe... I think CNY is all about indulging! Anyway thanks to my uncle for the treat.


Kampong Chicken with Ginger Paste

Chicken was another disappointment too. Too bloody and a bit undercooked though we enjoyed the ginger paste.


Complimentary Fried 'Ying Yang' Glutinous Rice with Preserved Meat

A mixture of brown rice and glutinous fried to perfect texture and very flavourful without being too oily. Nice!

www.tunglok.com

The TungLok 'Pen Cai' is available from 15/1/11 to 17/02/11 while stock last at all TungLok Restaurants (except Garuda Padang Cuisine & Ruyi). Vegetarian verion is available at LingZhi Vegetarian Restaurant.

Wishing all a Happy & Prosperous Rabbit Year!

Wen's Delight 祝福大家在兔年里, 新年快乐, 突飞猛进, 顺顺利利, 心想事成, 身体健康！

HAPPY LUNAR NEW YEAR TO ALL!




A sum up of my bakes for CNY 2011...

Kueh Lapis



Chocolate Chip & Macadamia Nut Cookies



Green Tea Marble Cookies



Jam Cookies



Golden Pineapple Balls



Sugee Cookies



Cashew Nut Cookies



CNY 2011 @ home!

CNY Gathering at Boss's House

20th Feb 2010

Another tradition of the company I work in is that my boss will invite all employees to his house for a gathering during CNY. This year caterer was Purple Sage. It's a hotel style buffet with live station serving Sushi, Mee Siam, Prata, Tempura, Tea Tarik, Rojak, Chocolate Fountain etcs. I dropped by for awhile so only manage to try some of the food and snap some of the live stations photos while the caterer was setting up.

Purple Sage
Live Stations - Sushi/Rojak/Mee Siam/Cocktails/Prata/Teh Tarik/Tempura

Buffet Table - Roast Beef/Mixed Vegetables/Seafood Roll/Fish/Butter Rice/Assorted Petit Cakes/Chocolate Fountain










www.purplesage.com.sg