We had to split the celebrations between both families, so first we headed over to my mom's house for New Year's lunch. My mom bought a roast duck from Chinatown for the occasion. Apparently she had to go to 5 stores to get one because they were all sold out. But check out how tasty the duck looks.
Tam undertook the task of figuring out how to cut the duck. I think next time we should just get the pre-cut roast duck...
Mom made shark fin soup. Shark fin is very expensive, so this is only for special occasions.
The full lunch spread included the Peking Duck, some steamed fish and tsao mi fun (stir-fried rice noodles).
Family picture time!
After lunch at mom's we drove into the city for dinner at Phil's parent's house. His mom prepared a full spread including steamed chicken, tofu skin soup, stir-fried rice noodles, bean sprouts, roast pork, cabbage and abalone, and a few other dishes.
His mom also made some kind of rice cake type of dessert, although we never actually ate it...It looked good though...
The actual dessert that we had was a lemon merengue pie and an almond amaretto cake that Winnie's boyfriend, Peter, bought from Whole Food's. The almond amaretto cake was pretty good, though I didn't eat too much of it, and the lemon meringue pie was nice and tart.
Family and lots of food - what better way is there to spend New Years? ^__^
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