The Little Red Dot

Today's the first day of CNY. Donned in 'Ang Pao red' two-piece, armed with 2 x mandarin oranges, and having drilled her "恭喜发财" (with accompaniment hand gestures) to perfection, Jae was all set for her quest to collect those red packets.


Looks like meat, no? Taste like meat too. But these are really vegetarian stuff. Every CNY we'd eat a vegetarian meal (吃斋/"灾") at my IL's. These used to be around midnight, immediately upon crossing over into the new year, but since last year (cos of Jae lah) these have been pushed back to breakfast times the following morning. Each of us need to eat > 1 bowl of rice somemore.


Brunch was at my parents' place. As per the vegatarian meal practice, things over here have been so routine over the years that we'd be able to expect what the dishes are gonna be, cos they're 90% the same year after year. Can bet your marbles that there'd be fried meat balls, deep fried prawns (no longer crispy by the time we eat it), chicken abalone soup, steamed fish, braised chicken + pork and yam cake.

Jae must have enjoyed being spoon-fed by mommy, and rewarded her with a kiss after the hearty meal.


The next visit was to Jae's 姨婆祖's place. Again, routine - every CNY we'd get to savour her really yummilicious 年糕 fried with yam slices, and the uber-tasty 金瓜糕!


At our fourth stop, Jae got meet for the first time, her little cousin di-di 黄靖凯. Thought Jae would be excited to meet di-di cos she'd been chanting his name for sometime already since his arrival some 2 weeks ago. Alas, the girl was just too distracted by the toys at Ah-Hann's place to be bothered with anything else beyond being cajoled to give a light peck on baby's forehead.


No wonder little Kai-Kai didn't look that pleased. It's all Jie-jie's fault~!

For dinner, we had KFC.