The Touch of Malacca Baba Nyonya Heritage

On the 4th day of Chinese New Year, we were invited to a Baba Nyonya luncheon at Kocik Kitchen Nyonya Restaurant.

It is a Baba Nyonya Restaurant which is owned by my aunt's friend.

The ambiance is great that you could feel the heritage of the Babas and the Nyonyas.

Wanted to take the reflection image in the mirror but only realized that this pic makes a great feelings with a person wandering.....

The entrance of the restaurant.

It is located at Heeren Street,Malacca.

The traditional wedding costumes of the Baba and the Nyonya.

The history of Nyonya food is provided in the menu.

You can't find it elsewhere as Kocik Kitchen Nyonya Restaurant.

We were served with the famous Nyonya food.

Fish with Chillies

Nyonya 5 spices meat roll (ngo hiang)

White rice was served in a pot. Nostalgic!

Pineapple prawns.It is also known as 'lemak nenas'.

Ponteh

Chicken Buah Keruak. It is an indonesian food and it totally taste different!

Belacan

Otak-otak

Dad is learning to eat the buah keruak in a right way.

It's interesting!

There's something in the shell and we have to dig it out with a small spoon and mix it with our rice.

Dessert is a must especially when it comes to Baba Nyonya cendol!!!

The cendol in Kocik Kitchen Nyonya Restaurant is not too sweet and it totally satisfies my stomach and my love for dessert!

It's always my favorite cendol!

HAPPY RABBIT YEAR 2011!

The Lum's and Leo's family in year 2011 !!!!!!

We love group photo!

Frankly speaking,the aunties and uncles love cam-whoring more than us the youngsters!

Hope you guys have a great RABBIT year!

My not-so-daring bro

Dinnr at aunt's place on the 4th day of CNY.
Aunt cooked lots of delicious food.Didn't get to take the pics of the food as I was rushing to her place and everyone's started eating. :)

As usual,cousins and bro like to play fireworks so much.
See my 'chicken-out' bro...haha

Couz kaibo who is super daring and way too active

The sparkle
baby bro

haha...baby bro was so damn scared to light the fireworks compare to my small size cousin

Couz kaiwen and moi

the beautiful side of her

Just a short post.Randomly.
XOXO

New Year Eve with Family

Chinese New Year eve has always been the same for me and my family.

But this year is a lil' bit different as dad couldn't make it for this Chinese New Year due to his job in overseas.He was back a week before CNY but I couldn't get to meet him.
Therefore,we had a quiet CNY.

We went to the temple on the Chinese New Year eve morning to pray my ancestors.Mum's job is to cook big fest for them!
And that's the time we get to have 'GOOD' food...haha......

As usual, we the 'kids' would make noise to leave early as we're always bored to death.
Fyi,it's not that we don't respect our ancestor but I always wonder do my ancestors really 'eat' the food that we bring every year?
As what I did read from my history book in high school, it's just a symbol and in long long time ago,the people sacrificed the real people to pray their ancestors!!!

DSLR in hand, cousins started to do some 'candid-shots'!!!

After the prayer, we had our reunion dinner at my cousin's house.
We 'lou sang' this time........

'yee sang' from yee yang sang..........it's nice! I love the design of the packing.
It represented the symbol of a family :)

My cousin always takes her puppy as a toy as it always changes its hair colour every CNY.
More 'updated' than a human being...


Mum and aunts cooked some dishes for the reunion lunch.....

home-made spring roll by my aunt..i think she did that.....

Fish with fried ginger

ponteh-baba nyonya famous dish by mum

stewed meat


prawns by mum

and also not forgetting red packets and red chopsticks for the 'lou sang'...............


Happy family without dad.....

the cousins...some were missing...haha

Baby Josh entertained me with his lil' lion dance session on new year eve night.
He loves to do it during Chinese New Year and would write a lucky number to ask my mum bought it.
He's a lucky baby as he 'granted' mum and her friends with his lucky number in striking a lottery!

more to come................