Happy CHinese New Year

Even though the first day of Chinese New Year was on January 26, I would like to wish everyone a Happy, Health and Prosperous 2009. May everyone has the best of health, great luck & wealth and abundance of joy! CNY in Chicago is boring. I wish I was at Chinatown in NYC. :( Anyways, we had our sorta reunion dinner on the 2nd day of new year. My mom made a Burgundy Pork Tenderloin dish(basically a pork dish soaked in red wine and other flavorings) , shrimp cocktail and stir-fried shrimp with oyster sauce, and a mushroom with chicken dish.

And the only Chinese New Year decoration I have in the house is my homemade Chinese lantern made out of red packets and origami paper for the birds. Isn't that sad? I wish I can get some CNY decorations. Hopefully next year!



And for the first time I made pineapple tarts for CNY. :) Very proud of it even though it needed more filling for the tarts per my mom. :) And I think the tarts might be a little too big. :P




Well, nevertheless we did go out for 'Loh Sang' yesterday, Feb 5 at a Malaysian restaurant called Penang (nearby my mom's place) The Loh Sang was pretty good. We also indulged ourselves on Hokkien Char Mee, Fried Lo Shee Fun and Petai Belacan (btw my mouth is still stink from the beans!) and Coconut drinks. :)

At least we still get to celebrate a little on Chinese New Year. :)