Archive for the 'Festivals & Religious' Category

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Reminder that Hungry Ghost festival is coming soon

If I am read correctly, Hungry Ghost Festival falls on August 1, 2008. It is the first day of the Chinese seventh lunar month.

It is the time when some Chinese believe that the souls from the netherworld are let out of their underground world and allowed to roam on earth. That’s why you [...]

Posted by lilian on July 21st, 2008 under Festivals & Religious | 1 Comment »

Ching Ming Festival

Tomorrow, 4th April is the real Ching Ming festival. However, my hubby and his siblings had Ching Ming for my in-laws yesterday. He brought home so many pigs, ducks, chickens, cakes and fruits until my fridge couldn’t accommodate.

Ching Ming festival is basically the clearing of our ancestors’ graves. Ching Ming can be [...]

Posted by lilian on April 3rd, 2008 under Festivals & Religious | 2 Comments »

Bwahahaha! Pig’s head got chopped

My four sisters-in-law are back to their most favourited season of the year. Ching Ming or the annual clearance of the graves fall on April 4th every year. They are now planning how to fit into the annual homage to their parents’ grave and their own inlaws’ graves. The amount of phone [...]

Posted by lilian on March 15th, 2008 under Festivals & Religious | 3 Comments »

Keong Hee Huat Chye - Happy Chinese New Year

I don’t know to be proud that they think I am so dependable or be pissed that they think I am doormat superwoman. Never mind, Chinese New Year is only once a year

Posted by lilian on February 6th, 2008 under Festivals & Religious | 5 Comments »

Chinese New Year must have dish - Joo hoo char

If you are a Penangite and are a Hokkien or at least some relations to Hokkien folks, this is one of the must have dish for Chinese New Year. Almost every home has it. But, the difference is in the flavour of the dish. Some of my relatives cook this but they [...]

Posted by lilian on January 7th, 2008 under Festivals & Religious, Recipe | 9 Comments »

Recipe : Waxed duck and Chinese sausage rice

I am super-duper full and satisfied after a meal of my own homecooked waxed duck and sausage rice. I just took a look at my previous post and found that I had some horrijible, lousy waxed duck rice last year in KL. I was staying in Boulevard and I remembered I went to [...]

Posted by lilian on January 5th, 2008 under Festivals & Religious, Food | 5 Comments »

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