And so the last day (04/03/2007 Sun) of the Lunar New Year has passed. Counting back I think we have taken Yu Sheng for at least 8 times over this 15 day period. We are already sick of it by now but had to finish the last of the ingredients for the Yu Sheng that we brought over from Singapore. Anyway just so some of you are not sure about its significance, Yu Sheng is a must have delicacy during the Lunar New Year to usher in good luck. Each ingredient has its own significance.
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 Pickled ingredients for Yu Sheng |
 Carrot, radish and other stuffs |
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 Raw fish |
 Spicing up your year ahead |
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 Crushed peanuts for abundant wealth |
 Sweetness of life |
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 All the good things in life |
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 Health |
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 Happiness |
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Happy Birthday everyone! For the uninitiated, yesterday (Sat 24/02/07) is the 7th day of the Lunar New Year and is also known as Ren Ri (人日）. So I am sure most of you back home are having Yu Sheng today, we won't be doing it today but will save it for the last day of Lunar New Year (15th day) to enjoy it. Anyway here's wishing all of you good health and success in whatever you do!
Ok so we are backin Melbourne
now. As usual we love Saturdays, as that's when we can induldge in our favourite past time. THE FISH AUCTION. So what did we get this time round? Well, before the auction we agreed that we should only spend A$30 between the both of us but as usual, when the action starts we got carried away. Our catch of the day:
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 Spikes all round |
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 Reminds me of a dragon's head |
 Dragon of the Sea? |
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 Red orangey patterns |
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| And so our dinner for the night was baked lobster with 3 types of cheese, sushi and ocean trout sashimi | |||||||||
 Dissected lobster ready to be eaten anytime |
 Adding the cheese prior to baking |
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 Baked lobster with 3 types of cheese |
 Lobster witth hot sticky cheese Yummmm... |
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 Sushi with ocean trout sashimi |
 A dozen sushi roll and counting... |
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| Don't envy us, just salivate at the pictures and also be thankful to God for the food that you have everyday. :) More pictures to come .... So enjoy and have a Great Week Ahead! | |||||||||
... at 35,000 feet above ground level! Yes this year hopefully we will "HUAT" since Chinese believe that the higher you "lou" (toss) the Yu Sheng, the more prosperous one will be.
We were served Yu Sheng on board our flight (SIA) back to Melbourne. It was a pleasant surprise despite having like more than 6 rounds of Yu Sheng during our time back in Singapore.
 SIA introduction to Yu Sheng |
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 Yu Sheng with smoked salmon |
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 Lou Hei. Tossing the Yu Sheng! |
 Enjoying the Yu Sheng |
This is the best lot. Not only is it made using homemade pineapple jam, the flour and butter proportion is more accurate than our earlier batch. I couldn't believe it, we actually used 8 pineapples to make the jam and over 1kg of flour for 219 tarts but I must admit we had a generous serving of pineapple jam per tart. Our factory line (Ken and myself) worked non stop for 4 to 5 hours to produce this lot (excluding time taken to make the jam which my dad helped to grate). Now my index fingers are sore! No more making pineapple tarts for me for the year! Time for FEASTING. :P
Cooking the grated pineapple to make jam |
Pineapple jam balls |
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Buttery dough |
Hard Work! |
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Working as fast as I can |
Generous heap of pineapple jam |
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Spot the odd one |
All done at long last |
Pineapple tart factory line Officially CLOSED for the year!
Today's count: 219 pineapple tarts!
To date's count: 329 pineapple tarts!
We decided to get our hands dirty today. After church we made pineapple tarts but we took the easy way out and used ready made pineapple jam. Needless to say ready made pineapple jam is no where comparable to home made jam. Finally Ken is convince to sweat it out and grate and squeeze the pineapple for me to make the jam! Yeah!!
In the later part of the afternoon we headed to Serangoon Gardens for Roti John and had table tennis session with my cousin. Yeap you must be wondering why we are full of energy today ;P
Home econs paid off! Rubbing in method |
Kneading the dough |
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Our first lot out of the oven! |
Yes it does taste as good as it looks! |
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100% Hand made!! |
Ken got creative with left over dough |
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Piglet for the Year of the Pig |
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Table tennis session!
Warm up! |
Getting friendly Bebe! |
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Bebe feeling really comfortable |
Oh btw, orders for pineapple tarts are FULL :P
Today's count: 110 pineapple tarts!