My chinese new year celebration is celebrated at Kota Kinabalu,Sabah. Two weeks before the celebration,my mum decorated the home with ornaments.
Chinese new year is about spending quality time with family, and celebrating lunar new year.Chap Goh Mei was just yesterday, felt that how fasttime flies
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| i met choi san and cat at Changi airport |
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cute fire cracker
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| sunflower plant at garage |
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| random pictures from my home backyard |
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| pomelo tree |
Pomelo is significant in prayers and is also a healthy fruit.
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| pomelo tree |
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pomelo plucked from my backyard
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| raddish soup served with mee hoon |
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| spaghetti cooked with fresh tomato and mushroom |
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| on the eve of chinese new year,mom prepared hainan chicken |
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| steam fish ,fish is a must during chinese new year,symbolizes abunance |
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stir fry prawn
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| sambal prawn |
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| reunion dinner at new year eve night |
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| cauliflower and brocoli cooked in kew pie sauce |
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| on the first day of chinese new year,mum cook various delicious vegetarian food prepared by mum.for open house |
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| vegetarian mutton curry |
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| vegetarian nugget |
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| fried mee hoon |
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| fried cabbage -lets |
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| sweet sour vegetarian fish |
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| fried `nian gao` by the neighbour |
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| 'cao rou` made from yam and vegetarian ham |
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| sweet pumpkin soup dessert |
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stuffed pork with mushroom
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I also visited the local market,where it is also known as 'tamu'.
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| local seaweed |
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| fishes |
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some local delicacy
On the chinese new year,eve,there is a pasar malam that should be visited.It is located along the road side of pasar besar. May it be last minute grocery shopping or even food hunting! |
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| some local crackers spotted around |
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| if you are lucky enough, you get to buy tiger prawns |
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| or even this! |
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| before leaving the pasar malam,let's have some fishball? |
