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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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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Sweet Potato Donuts

Syrup coated donuts

DONUTS or DOUGHNUTS! At the mention of it, my daughter will immediately go, ‘Ooooooooh, I want some’. She loves Krispy Kreme so much that she is willing to trade her breakfast, lunch and dinner for it! I seriously wonder what is so special about it. I mean, it’s just a small piece of flour dough with a hole in it and costs more than £1 each! To me it’s like eating gold. Besides, how do they still stay soft for a few days? That begs the question, ‘What are the ingredients?’
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Popular Malaysian Dessert (Bubur Cha Cha)

Delicious Malaysian bubur cha cha

Time for something sweet…the popular Malaysian Dessert, better known as Bubur Cha Cha. I love the name. Doesn’t the name make you feel like getting up and cha cha cha? Well, you can’t have this and dance at the same time because it’s actually soupy.
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More Malaysian Food in London

Kuih Serimuka (rice pudding)

Malaysian food is top of my list of food…..full of flavours. With so many different races residing in Malaysia, a dish of fried noodles can turn out in many ways, presentation and tastes. To me, it’s important to go to the right place with the right chef cooking the food. There is not much choice in UK. It can be quite a frustrating and disappointing experience to go to any one thinking you can get authentic Malaysian food. So far, I’m quite pleased with Malaysian Hall at London which offers rather authentic Malaysian food at a very reasonable price. I had written 3 articles previously.
Best Fried Rice Noodles In London
Best Fried Noodles In London
Exotic, Authentic Malaysian Food In London
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Malaysian Hall in London - Near Beautiful Kensington Gardens

Malaysian Hall London

Malaysian Hall (Malaysian High Commission) Cafe not only boasts of its various exotic and authentic local Malaysian food but also its location in the very heart of London.

It is located near Queensway Tube Station. At the top of the stairs to exit the Queensway Tube Station, turn left to Bayswater. Keep to left and turn into the second road. After a very short distance you will see the Malaysian flag flying from the first floor. That’s it.  There’s a stairs outside the entrance that leads to the basement where the cafe is.
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