Chinese New Year Women’s Hot Pot (Steam Boat) Party

Having fun cooking and eating

Chinese enjoys Hot Pot. In Malaysia we call it Steam Boat. This is a very fun and healthy way to eat and particularly most welcoming in this bitterly cold winter to keep everyone happy, nice and warm. The most important is a soup base. It can be spicy like the tom yum soup or a non spicy one. Usually we have both. Then there’s a wide array of raw meat and seafood, vegetables, noodles and cooked meatballs to be cooked in the boiling soup. Little bowls of sauces are served as dips. At the end of all the cooking, the soup tastes the best in the world.

Very refreshing, beautiful, delicious and utterly impressive. Best!

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Beautiful Winter Scenes In Aberdeen, Scotland

A beautiful and graceful swan

It has been snowing quite heavily last week and the temperature dipped to below zero degrees. I really don’t like the biting cold. Aberdeen, Scotland, is facing the North Sea and the wind causes an intense winter chill that seems to pierce into all my bones. It gets worse when the Arctic wind blows south.

Sunny but cold

Aberdeen buildings are mainly built from granite, making the city particularly depressing during the cold, gloomy winter. So, a big snowfall is actually most welcoming as it lightens and cheers up the place. In fact, Aberdeen is a very beautiful place to live in…beautiful sceneries, clean air and not too crowded.
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Chinese New Year Women’s Happy Hours

All pretty ladies. Which one is MaryMoh???

How cool it is to be able to celebrate New Year for 15 days! That is what Chinese New Year is. It’s a great time of get-together, food and merry-making. It’s a time of building relationships, especially among family members and friends and making new friends through all the visitation and parties.

My family has been eating a lot of awesome food this Chinese New Year and having lots of fun together as a family and also with friends. There’s still one more week of celebration to go. This whole celebration will end on the 15th day of the Chinese New Year, called ‘Chap Goh Mei‘. We had an amazing Chinese New Eve with friends but the other day we had an all Chinese New Year Women’s Happy Hours when all our men were at work. We had lots of food and fun. I think there is more fun when no man is around…haha. We always seem to make our men jealous…haha.
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Chinese New Year Eve Family Happy Hours

Table of goodies

Table of delicacies

Chinese New Year Eve is a very important event to all Chinese. It’s the time when family members gather together for the reunion dinner if possible. Many travel home from far to join the rest for this auspicious time. But for me, sadly, it’s been quite a number of years since I’ve not been back for the Chinese New Year. We miss home a lot during this time and so are our families back home in Malaysia.
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Mary Moh’s Birthday Surprises

Birthday joy

It’s my birthday today…yeah!! I’m  a year older, hopefully a year wiser. It’s such a thrill to receive birthday wishes from all over the world. A friend back home sent me a triple greeting….Chinese New Year, Valentine’s Day and my Birthday. He called it ‘triple happiness’. I fully agree with him. I think this has been a special and awesome season for me….great time with my friends, lots of special attention from my hubby and children and of course lots of special gifts, one of them being my new Apple computer!
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2 Desserts In Less Than 1 Hour

3-layered steamed pudding (kuih lapis)

Rocky Road Slice

Preparing 2 desserts in less than an hour would be madness in my culinary world.  But I did that right on the first day of the New Year…..2 desserts in less than an hour! I made a steamed 3- Layered Rice Pudding and a Rocky Road Slice. They were especially for 2 special Scottish friends who came back from Melbourne and left again yesterday.
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First Wedding Of The New Year 2010

The beautiful bride and the handsome bridegroom

My friend just got married! I’m just so happy for her and her husband. This is the first wedding that I have ever attended that falls on the first day of the New Year and right at midnight when the clock strikes 12! What a way and a day to get married!
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Christmas And Year End Celebration

Food for the evening

It is still Christmas season in my family. And as the year comes to an end, we are very thankful for all that had happened throughout the year and look forward to a new year. This time I cooked and invited some of my friends; about 35 people altogether for Christmas and also Year End Celebration. We had an awesome time of food, games, singing, jokes and chatting. It was an unforgettable evening….true Happy Hours!
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