Kung Hei Fat Choi!
Hey Everyone! This is the first for the year… and it is a late post J But nonetheless… I’d like to share how I spent the Chinese New Year.
Chinese New Year was on the 23rd of January, but while waiting for that day to arrive my family and I spent the 22nd by having lunch at a Chinese restaurant, Gloria Maris. We really felt the Chinese New Year celebration because of the wonderful interior of the place, which was red and gold.
We feasted on different dumplings and chicken feet. I loved their siomai (dumpling) it was packed with yummy steamed shrimp wrapped in dumpling wrapper (I’m not so sure what it’s made of though).
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| Dumpling Galore! |
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We also had Chinese-style fried chicken. It’s really different from the typical fried chicken because it does not have breading or gravy, instead the chicken becomes yummy because the chicken has the entire flavor. The sauce just compliments it. We had sweet and sour fish fillet as another viand. My mom loves sweet and sour. I like it too. I like how the crispness of the fish goes with the sweet and sour sauce… oh yum! And off course we had to have noodles (signifies long life –a saying). The name of the dish was crispy noodle with mixed vegetable. This type of noodle dish is my favorite because of the texture, the crispiness of the noodle complimented by the sauce of the mixed vegetable equals mouthwatering goodness. J
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| Chinese Fried Chicken |
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| Crispy Pancit |
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| Sweet and Sour Fish |
On the 23rd we had Tikoy! It is also known as the Chinese New Year Cake. It is made from glutinous rice and it comes in different shapes, sizes, and flavor. I was able to taste special Tikoy from Hap Chan Tea House. We cooked it with egg. We also did the same to the Tikoy from Shangri-La Makati. It was shaped like real koi fishes. It looked so cool and tasted good too.
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| the packaging of the Tikoy (fancy eh?) :] |
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| don't they look awesome? :) |
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