Chinese New Year Dinner

On the 9th February I was honoured (no exaggerating here) to attend a traditional Chinese New Year dinner at Tiffany's. I'm really grateful for your invitation - it was an amazing experience! If anyone ever has this opportunity do not hasitate to take it. 

Chinese New Year is the most important holidays in chinese culture. It is a celebration that lasts up to 15 (!) days, however in Singapore we only had 2 days off. On the first day families dine together, and on the others they do so called 'visiting'. They are visiting other family members, always carrying a box of oranges with them.
For me CNY felt like a mix of Christmas and New Year's Eve. It is very family holiday. And Tiffany made me feel like home, everybody was amazingly friendly and was making us eat incredible portions of food (just like in Poland!).

With Kuba, Tiffany and her Korean friend 

First we had sweets, lots of sweets

Some more sweets...

Even more sweets!

Delicious! Right in the middle (the yellow pastry)
is a pineapple minicookie. It is treaditionally eaten
during CNY. Not my favourite one :) 

Trying to eat melon seeds.
Probably not good for your teeth.

Steamboat (Hot pot). Traditional chinese dish eaten
 usually on major holidays. The concept is very
similar fondue, except for the fact
that you put all products to the boiling water. 

The choice of the products was enormous! We had
different kinds of meet, seafood, mushrooms and
salad. Steamboat is great for feasting together! We
spent more than 2 hours cooking, eating and talking.

With the family. The red envelopes are
an indispensable part of Chinese New Year.
They are usually  presented to children by the older
members of the family. Inside you can find money,
that is usually an even digit. Red colour (same as with
the ornaments) represents good luck.

xoxo

Ewa