Happie Goat Year -Preparation

In a blink of eyes, we entered the year of Goat. This year, Lunar New Year came a bit late in late Feb giving us more time to prepare. But as usual, I left things till the last minute to complete. Hehe.

Preparation for CNY is usually span across a few week, getting new clothes (good excuse for me yay..), storing some food like fishes (年年有余）, prawns, chicken and hanging up China Leeks (蒜） is a must do for my house though I am from the younger generation.

Cod fishes

 My colleagues were amazed by my "Auntieness" since not all of them follow the customs now. But these were past down from both my mummy and mother-in-law. And since it is not too bothersome, must as well follow.

Tiger prawns

Happy Goat year

 Not sure have anyine noticed, but the prices of CNY cookies now are crazy! A small bottle of Pineapple tarts costs at least SGD15, Medium bottle of Deep fried chiku will set you back by SGD12.50. BBQ pork is SGD 50 for a kg.

I am not a big fan of CNY cookies either is Mr Love and since we are not expecting visitors in our house, we skipped buying the goodies this year. Hehe There are alot of wastage the previous year and it is sinful to throw the food away.

That being said, we still went ahead and make the deep fried chiku on the weekend before CNY. 1KG of chiku costs SGD6 though we need to skin it and slice and deep fried 1 by 1. Time consuming but Mr Love loves it.

Homemade goodies

 Then not forgetting I got wonderful neighbour who will gift us her very yummy pineapple tarts every year, hehe I need not buy any since Auntie's version win hands down. We finished her prawn crackers way before CNY and thus it is not in the picture. Muhahaha.

Our goodies thes year. Gifts & homemade

I've got a habit of buying new bedsheet every year to the horror of Mr Love since the cupboard is bursting with all the past year's bedsheet. Hehe. See my 2015 version of 花开富贵 nice?

2015 花开富贵

 Lastly not to forget the 年糕（步步高升） & 发糕  from the 2 mothes and viola the preparation is complete!!

年糕& 发糕