Eww..my make up....

BEFORE

AFTER

Ermmm..this is my make up look for the first day of Lunar New Year!
FREAKY??

A couple of weeks ago,
I saw THIS VIDEO on youtube.com
Tutorial for acheiving a natural make up look...
And i kind of followed it..HAHAHA...

I didn't have the courage to put alot of mascara,
didnt put eyeliner too ( i still need lots of practices)...

Actually i feel that i look like a dead corpse in the coffin...with a cheeky evil smile !
HAHAHAHA..
CHIOY! its new year!

Reunion Dinner @ My place

For 9 pax!

This year is abit more special...

This "Pen Cai" ting costs $400...
So ex!

THere are 18 kinds of food in the claypot...

Add in the other delicacies...
It's truely big!
9 pax ate half only..
we finished all the good food..HEHE

big sized promfret..

Pig stomach's soup...

Another table of food!

& we started to gobble up the food!
Look at all the uglam faces....

We need to digest the food..cos theres more to come!

Brother in law peeled it for us...

My elder sis did this!
HAHA! NICE?

Next up!

Yu Sheng!

They are getting ready to lao!
& my dad doin some warm up exercise!

READY!!!

GO!!!!!!

Messy!

& lastly...
This is given by our neighbour.
It's pumpkin and yam or wat..HAHA..

and we K.O ed...
SO FULL TILL...ermm...wanna vomit??

Reunion Dinner @ In Law's

Look at the spread...

Like a buffet dinner for 4 pax..HAHAHA!!

Balls...Fishie...Crabie...Golden Mushrooms Platter....

All the veggies!


Cuttlefish...

Silken & Egg Tofu...

Pork Liver...

Marinated Chicken Fillets...

Fresh Prawns...

White Promfret Fish....

Abalone....

Sea cucumbers...

The soup is really sweet and tasty, boiled for the whole day....

READY TO CHARGE!!!!!

2nd round will be at my house...
dinner starts at 8.30pm...
HAHAHAHA..
FAT DAOOOOOOOOOOOO.....

GONG XI GONG XI !!!

We are Shanghainese...

& this is a must for our new year!

We call it "Ni Gou Gou"
Actually it's nian gao...
Rice cake...
I cooked a big wok for our brunch...
Ingredients in there are prawns, mushrooms, white cabbage, marinated pork, cuttlefish...
& the most important ting..
Rice cake!
the texture is like the korean kind...
NICE NICE!!

Poor Duckie

My Mum started to make braised duck at 11pm...

Poor duckie in the wok with garlics..shallots..and spices...

It's worse off now..
drenched by dark soya sauce..& many other black stuffs..



1 1/2 hour later.....

It's in this state...
I find it quite gross bcos of the head...
It looked like it's alive..
RIP..

it's one of the offering for my grand dad...

Cny bakes day no. 3~~

Today i rushed home by cabbie from work..
Started with baking kek lapis...

Ahhhh...
Not nice.. too dry =( & the colour looks yucky!
I baked this for about 4hours..
I pronounce the hand mixer
"DEAD"
So i used a manual balloon whisk.... till now my hands are still aching!
So my hard work should pay off rite?

Hope it will taste better tmr,
as some pple told me that more oil will b "developed" on the next day...



NEXT....

My pineapple tarts!
Trying to make it look like mandarin oranges..HAHAHA
It's very "melty"!
just put it in ur mouth..and it just melts..
Thats wat i want for pineapple tarts!
But quite frustrated with it...its really fragile!

The normal pattern of a pineapple tart..HAHA..
Im too tired to tink about other designs...& no energy to make anymore...
SUPER DUPER TIRED NOW!
Baking for 9 hours is no fun at all =(
I rather bake for leisure with no time limit..

Still have many stuffs to do...



PS: i tried to make almond crisp, but it turned out to be a disaster =(
FAILED!
So i gave up the idea of making seaweed sesami crisp too~~

CNy bakes day no. 2~~

Cookies day again!
I'm dead tired now!
work + bake is really no joke!!!!

My mother made her version of pineapple tart...
My smaller sis and me helped out...
its in the morning...just nice..b4 i go to work...

This smiley face is decorated by my playful younger sis...

And I came home around dinner time...
started to bake cornflake cookies...

Only 3 bottles in total..
Took me such a long long time...
WAH..I feel so lethargic now...
Tmr i will make pineapple tarts & kek lapis after work!
Sure tired too!
*YAWNZ*

My cny baking journey begins from now!

He is my best helper! =)

Sugee Cookies again!
But this time round i added in almond essence & not vanilla..
NICER!!

This is called the granny boyd's biscuits...
I adapted the recipe from here
SUPER GOOD!!!!

And i added some almond bits for the rest of the dough...

My elder sis ate it,
& immediately said WHOAH!!
Taste like famous amos cookie!!!
It's abit crumbly..it's crunchy too..& melts in the mouth too!

Bz for the whole afternoon..
but only made 4 bottles.. =(

I still wanna make pineapple tartz, seaweed biscuits, almond crisp & kek lapis!!

I only have time to bake on saturday nite and sunday morning!
Time is running out!!!