Gong Xi Gong Xi

Yay~ It’s Chinese New Year again…this year is rather quiet and kinda lack of the “proper” environment for the season. Remembering the days where the streets were filled up with red lanterns with shops and houses all well decorated with angpow packets and plum flowers and big colourful peonies and not forgetting the loud noises from the fire crackers all…missing those days.

HOWEVER, my family and I had some memorable events just days before the CNY. My third sister had her traditional wedding ceremony on the 29^th day of the last month in the lunar calendar! Yups, the same sister who had her ROM in Singapore last year. (An extra red packet this year =P). Last few days were really tiring an exhausting. Not only we had to prepare all the stuff for the big day, we still had to decorate our house, ushering the year of Ox! Whow…glad everything turned out perfectly! Will definitely post up the wedding pictures once they’re ready! Meanwhile, I’m just gonna boast a lil’ on the food again~ kakaka…

CNY eve, we had our reunion dinner, this time a rather big crowd as my Aunty and her family came back from KL to join us this year! It’s always nice to have the family members to sit together for a home cooked meal. I have always enjoyed the time we slowly savor our food and have a good time catching up with each other.

From left to right: my bro (Khinfoong), cousin (hanwen), Uncle Vincent, Aunty Mee Heong, cousin (XienWen), ME, Daddy, Mummy, new bro-in-law (HeeVoon), LaiKuan, Eldest sis (LaiKein) and husband (Andy)

Reunion lunch

First day of CNY, we were all dressed up with new clothes, getting well prepared for open house visitations. We started our day with vegetarian dishes for brunch and off we go to some relatives’ houses. The rest of the day was just simply filled up with more visitations and chilling out with my family!

First Day Brunch

Can’t wait for tomorrow!

Brownies

Recipe for homemade brownies:

Ingredients:

200g chocolate

200g butter

2 tsp cocoa powder

200g caster sugar

3 eggs

50g plain flour

1 tsp baking powder

50g almond nibs

Steps:

1. Lined an 8″ square tin and preheat the oven at 180 C.

2. Melt chocolate, butter and cocoa powder and set aside.

3. Beat the eggs with sugar until light and fluffy.

4. Fold in the chocolate mixture followed by the flour, baking powder and almond nibs.

5. Pour batter into prepared tin and bake for 25 to 30 minutes.

6. Serve with vanilla ice cream or simple top with a dollop of fresh cream.

Trip for two – Goodbye 2008

Ricky and me spent a day at Cameron Highlands just last Wednesday. The last trip for the year 2008. The whole trip was nothing but eating all the way. As usual, we had our first stop at Equatorial Hotel and mind you, we were there for the loo not the room! Huhu~ had a few pictures taken and off we head for the Belgian waffles just right opposite the hotel. Don’t quite remember the shop’s name, should be Rajan or something. You can get big juicy strawberries with any three toppings ranging from fresh cream, honey and chocolate sauce. And here comes my favourite, crispy Belgian waffle with soft interior pairing up with melted choc and fresh strawberries…yummy yummy…and not forgetting the strawberry ice cream…

Belgian Waffles

Strawberry ice-cream

What I really wanna cover in this post was the Yong Teng café located at Tanah Rata. Opposite Maybank:

This lil’ stall was run by a couple who were deaf and dumb. Their food range is so wide…porridge, rice, noodles, various beverages and the best is their pancakes with fresh fruits topping and u may have a scoop of ice cream on top too!

I had mine a peach pancake with vanilla ice-cream

And ricky’s a mixed fruits pancake

The owners:

We shopped for some fresh produces and head home for the year end celebration! Happy New Year all!

oh wait wait…also attended the Youth Rally…I was solely enjoying my butt off and have no time to take any good pics…if you’re interested pls click: http://www.ipohelimyouth.blogspot.com thanx!