Lunar new year part 2
And then my brother-in-law, Aaron arrived for dinner!
For starters, we tossed Yee Sang.
Yee Sang is like a cold salad dish. The dish is surrounded by colourful shredded vegetables like ginger, papaya, turnip, carrots plum sauce, sesame seed and five spice powder. We usually have this dish during the Lunar new year. Everybody will gather around the table and we will all toss and mix the dish together with our chopsticks. While tossing, we’d wish good things for everyone, in hope that all our wishes will come true:)
Our main meal for the night was steamboat. We got this steamboat from my parents as one of our wedding gifts. It’s like a hot pot, and we put the pot filled with soup stock in the middle of the table and add in meat slices and vegetables. If you come and visit me, I’d most likely cook steamboat because I love the idea of sharing a meal from one big pot.
February 16th, 2010 at 4:08 pm
Helena is the pot a thick pot or is it super hot and it cooks the things you put in it? Oh so intrigued! hehe Thanks for sharing your celebration with us!:)
February 16th, 2010 at 4:55 pm
The Yee Sang looks so fun & good!
And the steamboat looks delicious – are they dumplings too?
February 16th, 2010 at 5:06 pm
alanna, it’s like a rice cooker pot. The grey bowl comes out. Inside is like an electric plate that heats up the bowl of soup. So yes you dump food in and it cooks!
penny, wontons! come here! I cook for you!
February 16th, 2010 at 6:38 pm
Ooh! Could I use a rice cooker?? I have one that looks exactly like that. Your steamboat looks delicious!
February 22nd, 2010 at 2:04 pm
Emma my pot has functions to turn up the heat or lower the heat. I think a rice cooker doesn’t have these settings and it may be hard for you to boil the soup continuously?
You can get a steamboat in chinatown at any oriental shop! Or maybe you can use a slow cooker too if it has settings to ‘boil’