This is my first Chinese New Year as a newly-wed. As per Chinese customs, Wei Jien and I are supposed to give double the ang pow during the first year of marriage. That put a strain on our wallets, as we have yet to earn back the money spent on our wedding. That aside, it’s been a good two months since we got hitched.
Things have been pretty good, so far. Took us some time to adjust living together and working out our “me time”. We’re putting our honeymoon on hold, because Wei Jien wants to go for a long vacation some place far. That’s going to require quite a bit of money, so unless I start washing cars in my bee-kee-nee, we have to save from scratch.
Anyway, our reunion dinner was simple but I enjoyed it. Mum in law cooked all the dishes – we had yee sang, double boiled soup with abalone, pacific clams and mushroom, chicken pongteh, sambal udang, pork with buah keluak, ju hu char and steamed fish. Most of them were Nyonya dishes; a big change from the usual Foochow dishes I was accustomed to. But all very tasty.
Gong Xi Fa Cai everyone!
Hope the year of the dragon is treating you all good so far.:)
