Chinese
prone to have many customs and traditional forbidden rules, for example, any
family that has conducted any funeral within a year, it’s advised not to
celebrate Chinese New Year. They believe this is disrespect to the deceased.
The Hokkien believes not to celebrate any major festive for almost 3 full
years, the major festive or prayers are mainly Winter Solstice
(Dongzi 冬至), Chinese New
Year Day 9 Heaven God Prayer, etc.
Like
I mentioned before, because of my late Mother-in-law passing, we were on vegetarian for full 49
days, this year new year, we did not celebrate, not even mentioned about reunion. Because of
all that, it’s the children’s duty to look after the left behind father. Thus,
it was my first encounter to prepare new year dishes for the first time.
Many
people believe or rather Buddhist believes on any day1 or day 15 of the lunar
month, is advisable to consume vegetarian food. So, with that belief, I cooked
vegetarian dish for the day, apart from that, I also cooked others.
Sing
Ning’s Style of Vegetarian Dish (新寧素菜)
Ingredients
Foo
Yu (腐乳), 2 cubes
Nam
Yu (南乳), 2 cubes
3
to 5 Tablespoon of sugar
Cloud
Ear Fungus (雲耳)
100 gram, soaked in water
Chinese
Cabbage, 800 gram (Cantonese called that Wang Nga Bak (黃芽白)
1
Tablespoon chopped ginger
Deep
fried beancurd skin & Glass Noodle (冬粉 Tang Hoon)
Method
1.
Mash both type of fermented bean curd into a small bowl
2.
Cut the Chinese Cabbage into 1 inch to 1.5 inches long
3.
Heat the wok with about 2 tablespoon of vegetable oil
4.
Add in the chopped ginger and stir fry it till fragrant
5.
Add in the mashed fermented bean curd and stir fry it till frangrant
6.
Add about 2 cups of water, let it boil and add in the fungus and the vegetables
7.
Let the ingredient soak into the boiling sauce and simmer it till the vegetable
soften
8.
Once done, dish out the dish, and add in the deep friend beancurd skin and
glass noodle in the sauce
Hoe
See Fatt Choy (Dried Oysters and Black Hair Moss Braised Mushroom) (發菜蠔豉燜冬菇)
Ingredients
Pork
Leg, 500 gram (Half legged size)
Dried
Oysters 400 ounce (啢)
8
Dried Mushrooms
4
tablespoons dark soya sauce
100
ounce of Black Hair Moss (發菜)
Salt
Method
1.
Boiled the pork leg for about 20minutes
2.
Soak the dried mushrooms till it soften
3.
Soak the dried oysters and wash it clean
4.
Prepare the slow cooker pot and put all ingredients into the pot except the black
hair moss
5.
Cook it thru for about 2 to 3 hours on high heat then turn into low heat after
2 hours
6.
Last is to put the black hair moss into the pot before serving
7.
Salt to taste
Steamed
Waxed Meat (蒸臘肉)
This
is the most easiest dish the other 2. You just have to steam the meat for about
20 to 30minutes and cut it into strips.
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