cod fish recipes: Chinese New Year

Showing posts with label Chinese New Year. Show all posts

Showing posts with label Chinese New Year. Show all posts

Stir fried rice cake 炒年糕

A late Chinese New Year to all! This is the year of the dragon.

祝大家龍年快樂, 事事如意, 行好運發大財!!!

年糕 'nian gao' or rice cake is eaten by many during this festive season. Nian gao is auspicious because it rhymes with the lucky phrase 年高 (also read as 'nian gao') or 年年高升 'nian nian gao sheng', roughly translated to English as 'achieving advancements/promotions year after year'.

There are mainly two

Steamed fish with black bean sauce and tomato

Chinese New Year is just a week away. In Chinese tradition, fish is always a must have for the festive meal. Fish is auspicious to symbolise there will always be plenty year after year. In Chinese phrase it is called 'nian nian you yu' 年年有餘 or 年年有魚. Here the word fish 魚 sounds the same as 餘 which means plenty left.

Steamed fish is very popular for any Chinese festive meals. Fish for steaming

Tang yuan, fermented rice and egg drop sweet soup 酒釀蛋花湯圓

Tang Yuan 湯圓 are boiled soft chewy balls normally made with glutinous rice flour.

Today is the last day (day 15) of Chinese New Year called Yuan Xiao Festival 元宵節. It's also a full moon day today. CNY starts on the 1st day of lunar month and end on full moon. To end this festive season, many Chinese will eat soft chewy tang yuan. Most people will have the sweet type but savoury ones are also

CNY 7th day

Happy Birthday to all!

It's the 7th day of CNY again. In Chinese tradition it's everybody's birthday. We called today 人日, reads as 'Ren le' in Mandarin or 'Yan Yak' in Cantonese, literally means 'people's day'.

See previous post and some recipes related to today celebration like yu san and 7 ingredients soup and the reasons why they are selected as special for Ren le.

For a change I am going

Golden pumpkin cake

Golden Pumpkin Cake 黄金南瓜糕

One of Cantonese favourite Chinese New Year's cake is lo bak goh (turnip or mooli cake). This year I subbed mooli with pumpkin. The cake has a mild sweetness and lovely pumpkin flavour. It has a nice golden colour. Gold or golden colour is auspicious during CNY to symbolise wealth and prosperity. So why not try this to celebrate with friends and family. I know it's a

Happy Wabbit Year

Chinese New Year 2011, 3rd - 17th Feb

Happy New Year to all who celebrate the year of the Rabbit.

在新的兔年祝你和你的家人: In the year of the Rabbit, wish you and your family:
萬事如意 All wishes come true好運連連 No end of good lucks青春健康 Feeling young and healthy甜甜蜜蜜 Love is sweet幸福快樂 Blissful and happy

CNY Day Seven Auspicious food (人日七菜羹)

Most Chinese are very superstitious, I know we are a weird bunch, many of the things we do and eat around CNY can all relate to some meanings, mostly something to bring auspicious lucks. Any thing bad is usually avoided or not permitted like no sweeping around the house during the first few days of CNY, this will sweep away any lucks!. Bad luck food is stir fried squid 炒魷 because another meaning

Buddha's Delight or Monk's Vegetables 羅漢齋

On the first day of CNY many Chinese. especially Cantonese, will go meat free. Many will cook an assorted vegetarian dish using dried vegetables, edible fungi, tofu products and fresh vegetables. This dish is normally referred to as Buddha Delight or Monk's Vegetable, in Chinese is 羅漢齋 (lo han zai) or simply 齋菜 (zai choi).This dish is the custom in my family for this day every year. My mum would

Celebrate CNY Eve with Fu gui Ji 富貴雞, aka Beggar Chicken

Our New Year's Eve dinner highlight was a Fu Gui Ji 富貴雞, commonly known as beggar chicken (乞丐雞 chi gai zi) or (叫化雞 jiao hua zi). I preferred to called it Fu Gui Ji 富貴雞 for this occasion because fu gui 富貴 means fortune and prosperity.This beggar chicken recipe started a long time ago in Hangzhou 杭州, China. The story was a beggar stole a live chicken from a village. He was found out and the owner

Happy Tiger New Year

新年快樂!Happy New Year!福虎和你拜年!Greetings from Lucky Tiger!The following phrases are Tiger greetings. May sound a bit stupid translated to English, but quite sweet in Chinese. 福虎年祝你財源滾滾 Lucky Tiger wishing you rolling in with money in the coming year 發得像肥虎 Properous like a fat tiger 身體壯的像頭虎 Strong as a tiger 愛情甜的像虎奶 Love life sweet as tiger’s milk 好運多的像虎毛 Good lucks many as

Red bean and coconut sticky rice cake 椰汁紅豆年糕

This coconut flavoured sticky cake/pudding with cooked red beans is another Cantonese favourite for CNY. I made some the other day but I have to say I much preferred the old fashioned plain brownish rice cake. Here is a recipe if anyone is interested.This recipe will make 2 puddings using 1/2 pint (about 250ml) pudding basins (metal or plastic) or other containers.Ingredients:1/2 cup red beans

Crunchy peanut crescents 油角仔

Yau kok zai 油角仔 are crunchy peanut crescents, a very popular snack for CNY especially Cantonese. I have been making these since I was a kid, it's a must have this time of the year. I like to make mine really tiny, it's labour intensive I quite enjoyed making them.

They are crunchy inside out, so can keep for several weeks in airtight container.

For this recipe, this will make about 75 tiny

New Year Rice Cake 年糕

Rice cake or nian gao 年糕 is something nearly every Chinese family will have for CNY. The two words 年 nian and 糕 gao rhyme with the Chinese greeting phrase 年年高升 nian nian gao sheng, literally translated as higher year after year or simply you will prosper year after year. So eating nian gao is considered lucky for the coming year.There are different nian gao, the Northerners have white plain rice

Candied lotus seeds 糖蓮子

During CNY many Chinese will have a box of candied fruits and nuts at home to welcome friends and families when they visit and also given them as gifts. Popular candied stuff like candied lotus root slices, lotus seeds, red dates (jujube), kumquats and winter melon.Candied lotus seeds (tang lan zi 糖蓮子) are popular especially for any family wishing to have kids because the word lotus seeds in

Lo Mai Chee with red bean paste 豆沙糯米糍

Chinese New Year is approaching, I am warming my engine up making some favourite CNY cakes, biscuits, dumplings and not forgetting a meal on CNY eve. My first CNY related recipe this year is Lo Mai chee.Lo Mai Chee 糯米糍 is Cantonese style mochi, some people called lo mai chee as snow balls. Anyone who does not know what a lo mai chee or mochi is, it's a soft and chewy dough ball normally filled

Last Day of CNY and Sticky Rice Ball Dumplings 湯圓慶元宵 - Part 2

Continued from the last post, here are more sticky rice ball dumplings recipes.This next one is deep fried by far my favourite, very popular in our house and similar texture and taste to Jin Dui balls 煎堆 you get from the Chinese dim sum restaurant.DEEP FRIED STICKY RICE BALLS (PUFF BALLS)For the ingredients/ methods:Before you make the fried puff balls, get some roasted peanuts (plain unsalted is

Abacus Beads 算盤子

To go with CNY and celebration food, I had made some Chinese gnocchi called Abacus beads 算盤子. This is typical Hakka cuisine and is eaten at most Hakka celebration meals. It’s a good luck dish because the dumplings are round, smooth, sticky and chewy similar in meaning to Chinese as the sticky rice dumplings as mentioned in the last post. These round dumplings are made to look like the beads on

Last Day of CNY and Sticky Rice Ball Dumplings 湯圓慶元宵 - Part 1

Today is the last day of CNY, here wishing all Chinese a Happy 元宵節 yuan siu jet (in Cantonese) or Tzap Goh Meh (in Hokkien). Most families will celebrate the ending of the New Year with a feast.Some people also called today the Lantern Festival day, most families will display and play with beautiful lanterns (mainly paper and bamboo lanterns), and lantern processions everywhere, a jolly happy

Yu Sang (Chinese Ceviche)

Continue from the last post, this is my version, if you had yu sung before it could be very different from mine.Ingredients:200 -250g of sushi grade salmon or tuna1 carrot about 120 - 150gabout 200g of mooli or daikon2 stalks of spring onion1/2 medium red onionabout 50 - 60g of sushi style sweet pickled ginger1 chunk of ginger, use tenderer part if you can1 large red chillismall handful of

7th Day of Chinese New Year

Today is the 7th day of Chinese New Year, known as 人日 (Ren Le) in Mandarin or (Yan Yak) in Cantonese. This means it is the birthday of all humankind. So HAPPY BIRTHDAY (or a belated one to people whose time zone had past 1st Feb 2009) to everyone in the whole wide world! Legend has it that in the very very old days thousand of years ago, it was recorded that God (Chinese God) made all kinds of