Chinese New Year Feast

Chinese New Year festival in Malaysia is a joyous occasion for all Chinese. Loved ones and family
members from far and near get together once a year to 'catch up' on one another on this very
important day. A Reunion dinner is planned on the eve of Chinese New Year with lots of
sumptuous food meticulously prepared days before the eve of Chinese New Year.

Many household still prepare and cook the dinner at home, but nowadays many do eat out at
restaurants which serve set menus. Most of the set menus are expensive but the food served
are delicious and wonderfully pleasing to the eyes.

This year, my husband, son and I had our reunion dinner with my brothers, sisters, nephews,
nieces and grandchildren at Palace restaurant, Centro Building, Klang. Everyone enjoyed the
food and the karoake session where the boys sang their'hearts out'. Lets take a look at the
'mouth watering' dishes...



Yee Sang - this dish is a combination of finely shredded vegetables of cucumber, carrot, ginger,
pickled vegetables, pomeloes and raw salmon fish mixed with sweet plum sauce, five spice
powder, fried peanuts and sesame seeds. This dish is then toss as high as possible with chopsticks signifying good life and prosperity for everyone.

Braised Shark's Fin Soup with Crabmeat and Mushrooms- This delicious soup is very
rich and tasty. The shark's fin comes in pieces, with lots of crabmeat and mushrooms
which make the soup , indeed very tasty.

Roasted suckling pig and pig's trotters- The most enjoyable part is eating the crispy aromatic skin which is grilled to perfection. Very crunchy and nice, though a bit oily. The pig's trotter
is equally well done. It is thinly sliced and tasted a bit saltish.

Baked Tiger Prawns with Special Sauce- The tiger prawns are very fresh and seafood
lovers will enjoy this dish. It is sweet and flavorful.

Steamed Codfish- The codfish is very fresh and the meat is very tasty . The fish is steamed
to perfection and sprinkled with lots of red cut chillies and spring onion to make it colorful.
Very nice.

Braised Dried Scallop and Dried Oyster with Brown sauce - This dish is unique as the cook used
melon squash with a piece of dried scallop placed in the center of the cut melon. Dried oyster
and 'fatt choy' which is only used during Chinese New Year to signify prosperity are added to
to give it more flavor. Taste good.

Fried Glutinous Rice with Waxed Duck meat- This is indeed a very rich, tasty, aromatic and
delicious fried rice. Big pieces of waxed duck meat, mushrooms, chinese sausages add
flavor to this tasty rice.


Sweetened Sea Coconut Lily Pulp with Ginseng root - To end the course of this dinner with
cold sweet soup of sea coconut with longans. Everyone will have something sweet to
remember .

Chinese New Year is celebrated for 15 days and for the next 15 days , there will be food
and more food with more reunions with relatives and friends. It is the time of the year
where we indulge in lots of good food and food that you will find only serve once a year and
you wouldn't want to miss them.
Leave me a line, and share with me your Happy Chinese New Year.