Reunion with primary teachers and classmates

This Chinese New Year we managed to gather only nine of our primary school classmates to visit our primary school teacher who thought us from primary one to six.  All of us really respect and love him very much, we made our promise to visit him every year during Chinese New Year in Teluk Intan.

This picture was taken in our teacher house on the third day of Chinese New Year.

All were middle aged classmates, some were grandmas already.  Standing forth from left on the back row is our teacher, he is now seventy-two years old.
After a short chat, we adjoined for lunch at Shee Chuan Restaurant, in Teluk Intan.

While waiting for foods to be served, take a snap for the album.
The first dish was The Five Taste Dish.

Next we had Asam  Steamed Golden promplet.

Vegetarian mixed vegetables.

Tong Poh Pork with Man Tau

All of us were too full to put in anymore food, we had to stop the rest of the orders, like fried prawns and glutinous rice for take away.

Though it was festive season and with a big crowds, the foods were well prepared and taste good, big portions too!.

We all had a very memorable and happy reunion and eagerly waiting for the next one to come.

Our sir gave me another old teacher contact number who retired in 1986. I managed to get hold of her in Ipoh.  She was so excited to meet me and my sister.  She was so strong, when she shake hand with us, I could feel that tight and strong hold on my hand. She is now ninety-five years old, her memories were still good. She could recall our good old times in school. Really good to chat with her.

Though she is ninety-five years old, she still looks so alert and healthy.

Reunion Dinner

I decided to have home cook reunion dinner for this Chinese New Year because all my brother  and sister in laws were not joining us for this occasion. Only six of us, my father-in-law, my two sons, the maid and both of us. I have bought all the necessary ingredients for the five dishes that I needed a few days before the occasion.  I needed sea-cucumbers for one of my dish, so I bought three dried sea-cucumbers. My mom taught me how to prepare the dried sea-cucumbers.
The method.   Put the sea-cucumbers into a soup pot half-filled with water.  Take it to a boil.  Turn to low fire and continue boiling for half an hour.  Remove from stove and add more water to almost fill up the pot.,let stand till next day. Pour out the water, clean the intestines of the sea-cucumbers, soak them in the pot again with lots of water. On the third day, change the water, boil the sea-cucumbers for about fifteen minutes, repeat as the first day, add more water to the pot, let stand till next day. Change the water everyday until the sea-cucumbers expand till the size that you are  satisfied.
The first dish I prepared was the braised vinegar pork leg. It will taste better if its cooked  a day earlier.
Braised vinegar pork leg.

The ingredients for Bountiful Harvest

Three pre-soaked sea-cucumbers, six dried Chineses mushrooms, soaked

five cloves of garlic, slices of ginger, six dried oysters, soaked, six dried scallops (medium)

three grams of black moss, soaked. Broccoli for decoration.

Cooked Bountiful Harvest

Ginger Steamed Golden Promplet

Jieu Hu Char (fried Chinese yam with dried chopped squid)

Deep Fried Prawns

Chinese New Year flowers

Chinese New Year is just around the corner.As usual, I would go to plant nurseries to hunt for flowers to decorate my house. Every year I go to Kuala Kangsar Road for flowers shopping, but this year I found a new and big plant nursery located in Ampang, Ipoh.
Wow!! See all the beautiful blooms, I just can't resist but to snap pictures of those flowers,

This is a very big Chinese Peach Blossom imported from China.

Colourful Chrysanthemums

Mosambi plants

The boss of the nursery called this Vietnamese Cherry blossom

Finally I decided to buy four pots of different colour Christmas Cherry.

My Small Chinese Peach Blossom

Dried Pussy Willow

Potted Pussy Willow.