Chinese New Year's Eve 2017

It is the eve of Chinese New Year 2017. 
Time for our steamboat reunion dinner. :) 

Our own version of Lo Hei (seasoned seaweed, jellyfish and scallops) 

9 Oct 2016 = Double 9th Day

Today is 9 October 2016 which happens to be the 9th day of the 9th month in the Chinese or lunar calendar which is also the Double Ninth/ Double Yang Festival and it is also my Chinese birthday. 
My mother lovingly prepared pork trotter mee sua for me. Only a mother with strong traditional values will remember her children's (and all 5 of her grandchildren's) Chinese and English birthdates!

7th Month

Today is the first day of the seventh month in the lunar calendar. I have warned the girls to be careful of where they walk/ step on (avoid walking over or onto offerings) and to be careful with their words about the supernatural stuff. I went to the temple as well in the morning to pay respects to my late grandparents (both maternal and paternal), a (maternal) grand aunt, two (maternal) uncles and a close family friend uncle. 

Happy Lunar (Chinese) Birthday, Marieann

It is Marieann's lunar (Chinese) birthday today. It is just one day apart from her other birthday on 2 January lol. Since it is her Chinese birthday, a bowl of mee sua (面线) in double-boiled chicken soup was cooked for her to eat as well as a hardboiled egg for her to shell and eat. Usually it should be two hardboiled eggs (double digit is lucky) but I thought it might be too much for her. The mee sua represents longevity and the egg represents life. 
Marieann is now into cheesecake. So I bought her a simple Light Cheesecake from Breadtalk for today's birthday. For her other birthday, we will be getting her the more elaborate New York Cheesecake from Bakerzin lol. :)