Gong Xi Fa Cai

Happy Chinese New Year everyone!
This is the first year that im away from Singapore and my family
for the whole period of CNY
Is strange not to hear the constant CNY songs in shops
or to eat bak kwa and all the CNY goodies
and its the first time im not wityh my family for reunion dinner
even though i came paris last CNY period
i took the flight after the reunion dinner

so is going to be our first reunion dinner together
and first reunion dinner i prepare
im glad that most years, my family had steamboat
and not complicated dishes
so i made a steamboat for us

it was tough to gather the different ingredients 
from local supermarket
and the asian supermarket
lots of sore back and aching legs from the buying
and the fridge was stuffed full!

Anyway im glad fiance loves steamboat
as much as i do
sadly the portable electric stove didnt worked
so we shifted the table to our stove and have steamboat
still a wonderful feeling to eat something so warm and familiar
and is really different having steamboat in winter!
I look forward to the many reunion dinners to be spent together...

PS the day was started with skype at 830am
with my family
to join (watch) them having reunion dinner...
i ate potato chips while watching because i became hungry
and is crazy to start a steamboat at 830am