Chinese New Year Reunion Dinner

7 February 2011, 01:47

HAI GUYS! So you know how Saturday was the hottest day in Feb in Sydney since 1926? Well that was the day of our Chinese New Year Reunion party with our rellies and Malaysian ex pats… ahahaha we were MELTING yo! Not even the air con running at full blast made a dent in the crazy heat but at least it was a dinner party so it had kinda cooled down. Kinda. Lol and as always we start with the Yee Sang! Toss toss toss!


Pretty piles of veg before the yee sang got destroyed mixed together.


Satay grilled fresh oh baby! So damn hot but cannot resist the skewers of tender chicken with charcoally edges dunked in peanut sauce and stabbing rice cubes and cucumber in between each bite.


Table o plenty. Yeah ignore our ghetto fan haha but it was doing an awesome job of keeping the flies away! Cbf taking individ photos of each dish so we had: satay with rice cubes, prawnies, 3 types of noodles, 2 types of curries, roast duck and my pulled pork wrapped san choy bow lettuce style


And to cap off the night, ice kacang with ice shaved from the old skool ice shaver. I um didn’t take a pic of my ice kacang because I am boring and have issues with grass jelly and red bean so all I had in my bowl was corn and a mountain of ice drenched in gula melaka and evaporated milk heh


Oooh colourful jelly!


Aaaand random pic of shoes lol hope you guys didn’t melt too much over the weekend! Here’s to a cooler week ahead!

1. Old skool ice shaver! That is seriously cool. The satay looks so tasty and lol, why are kids’ shoes so cute?

   — Helen (grabyourfork)    Feb 7, 03:36 AM    #
   
   

2. Hi Suze! It was so hot on Saturday. And I wish I had an old skool ice shaver! Wonderful food! Especially the Yee Sang. Great to have everyone around. Happy Chinese New Year! :)

   — eatmarvin    Feb 7, 04:05 AM    #
   
   

3. All this talk of yee sang is really getting to me…I need some NOW. Perhaps you could be so kind as to offer us a recipe? ;)

   — Jenny @ Musings and Morsels    Feb 7, 04:44 AM    #
   
   

4. Oh I’m so glad that this week is going to be cooler! Saturday was so hot, glad you cooled off a bit with some ice kacang ;)

   — Betty @ The Hungry Girl    Feb 7, 08:54 AM    #
   
   

5. Hi there
   Happy Chinese New Year! I’ve just come to have a look at your blog (since you have been kind enough to check mine out). What a wonderful blog. I’ll be back for sure.
   Delly

   — Adele    Feb 7, 09:22 AM    #
   
   

6. OMG! The GREEN antique shave ice machine!!! So nostalgic.

   — Ellie (Almost Bourdain)    Feb 7, 09:54 AM    #
   
   

7. woah what a nom fest!! nice work, I used to love shaving the ice!

   — Iron Chef Shellie    Feb 7, 09:57 AM    #
   
   

8. Oh Suze you have such a big family! Happy CNY !

   — Wendy @ Obesebaby    Feb 7, 10:12 AM    #
   
   

9. yee sang looks yummy! thank goodness that it’s all cooler now!

   — Melissa    Feb 7, 10:54 AM    #
   
   

10. Wow that looked like a fantastic CNY celebration. Happy New Year Suze.

    And is it me or is kids more organised? Just look at the kids shoes vs the adults … hahaha

    — Ian    Feb 7, 10:54 AM    #
    
    

11. Happy Chinese New Year! Love the vintage ice shaver but what i really want now is some satay chicken skewers.

    — Jenius    Feb 7, 10:59 AM    #
    
    

12. The ice shaver is just so cute.

    — sara @ Belly Rumbles    Feb 7, 11:18 AM    #
    
    

13. I’ve never seen an ice-shaver quite like it – cool stuff!

    — mademoiselle délicieuse    Feb 7, 11:19 AM    #
    
    

14. Using yoru fan to keep the flies from the food is PURE GENIUS. As are those colourful jellies. Amen.

    — Hannah    Feb 7, 04:01 PM    #
    
    

15. oh i love love your ice shaver! we used to have one in indonesia…. and satay… wow – what a feast!

    — gastronomous anonymous    Feb 7, 04:25 PM    #
    
    

16. Cool ice shaver, matches the fan :) Looks like you had a wonderful banquet!

    — Gaby    Feb 7, 05:16 PM    #
    
    

17. Woulda loved an ice machine too for Saturday! I second the motion for a Yee Sang recipe :)

    — ToniTones    Feb 7, 06:22 PM    #
    
    

18. I haven’t seen the old skool ice shaver since forever…and love the tip on using the fan to keep the flies away. Brilliant! :D

    — Emily    Feb 7, 08:51 PM    #
    
    

19. Happy belated Chinese new year!
    Hahahaha love the photo of the shoes in front of the house!!!! Looks like my mum’s place LOL!
    Oh god, I’m so hungry looking at your photos and it’s only 9.30am

    — Brenda    Feb 9, 10:40 AM    #
    
    

20. What a good spread! I love the ice machine, that is like home, when we used to buy ice kachang or chendul or just 20 cents iceball with red syrup!

    — Jackie Tan Brodin    Feb 9, 06:51 PM    #
    
    

21. Love the vintage ice machine – so chic! I could definitely have borrowed it that day too – so hot we had ice packs on us!

    — Forager @ The Gourmet Forager    Feb 12, 12:04 AM    #
    
    

22. No kidding, old skool ice shaver. It looks like it was around to see the last record heat wave :P

    — Simon @ the heart of food    Feb 12, 12:48 AM    #