This year for Chinese New Year my family and I decided to celebrate the 'Year of the Golden Rabbit' by eating the typical chinese dishes that you would order at the Chinese/ Vietnamese Restarants. Typically, in Sodarak style my sister and I cooked dinner for our Mother and Father and of course significant others.
We ventured out on the 5th of Feb 2011, coincidently on my birthday to Canely Vale to purchase seafood delights on the hottest day of my life, well it did feel like it. My need to have siao yuk for dinner was high on the agenda. Tonight's menu will be chinese style, if i had my way and yes i did.
Banquet style.
1. Steamed Oysters with Black Bean Sauce with a touch of chilli, ginger and green scallions
2. Steamed Silver Perch with Ginger and Scallions in Soy Sauce
3. Stir fry vegetables with prawns and cashews in Oyster Sauce with decorated with a perfect moon shaped of siao yuk.
My mother did comment afterwards that she was happy to have shared chinese new year + my sister's and I birthday in one day. I think my mother misses her mum, yes my grandmother Ama. It would have the eve of her funeral. The 1 year anniversary of when we all said goodbye to her.
RIP AMA
