What's your fav CNY food?

strawroot · 14th Feb 2007, 02:26 PM

What is your fav?
Bak kua? I actually prefer the 'gold coin' bak kua than the thin big piece, altho i am not a big fan of this, but if i were to choose, i prefer the coin-shaped one

because it's thicker and meatier

PsYkHoTiK · 14th Feb 2007, 03:44 PM

We always make those love letters on CNY eve (at my grandma's - ah how I miss being there). I help out too (by eating up the rejected ones - ones that didn't fold right or broke while folding.) LOL! I R Helpful...

Chai · 14th Feb 2007, 05:08 PM

Oh yes, I was thinking of love letter when I saw the title, but couldn't remember what it was called until I saw your post.

strawroot · 14th Feb 2007, 05:42 PM

i love the old-school love letters, those only made with egg, butter n flour, smells really good. but... my mom doesn't know how to make a single kuih...

ToyotaFreak · 14th Feb 2007, 06:31 PM

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Originally Posted by PsYkHoTiK

We always make those love letters on CNY eve (at my grandma's - ah how I miss being there). I help out too (by eating up the rejected ones - ones that didn't fold right or broke while folding.) LOL! I R Helpful...

Mmmm... I like love letters! I also like the New Year cake.

btw just curious, are you also part chinese?

Adrian Wong · 14th Feb 2007, 11:25 PM

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Originally Posted by strawroot

What is your fav?
Bak kua? I actually prefer the 'gold coin' bak kua than the thin big piece, altho i am not a big fan of this, but if i were to choose, i prefer the coin-shaped one

because it's thicker and meatier

Eh, but it's actually the same as the normal bak kua, according to Bee Cheng Hiang shop that I asked. But I too prefer it to the large ones. Maybe because it's bite-size.

Adrian Wong · 14th Feb 2007, 11:26 PM

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Originally Posted by strawroot

i love the old-school love letters, those only made with egg, butter n flour, smells really good. but... my mom doesn't know how to make a single kuih...

I used to help my grandmother and aunties make love letters. Ahhh.. The good old days, sitting around those charcoal-burning BBQ trays making love letters.

PsYkHoTiK · 15th Feb 2007, 12:52 AM

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Originally Posted by strawroot

i love the old-school love letters, those only made with egg, butter n flour, smells really good. but... my mom doesn't know how to make a single kuih...

Yea, thats the one we make....

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Originally Posted by ToyotaFreak

Mmmm... I like love letters! I also like the New Year cake.

btw just curious, are you also part chinese?

Yea, I'm half chinese (my mom is chinese.)

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Originally Posted by Adrian Wong

I used to help my grandmother and aunties make love letters. Ahhh.. The good old days, sitting around those charcoal-burning BBQ trays making love letters.

Yea, there'd be most of the cousins there with some of the aunties who'd be around the charcoal fire. I'd be the one standing there with two of my other cousins who'd make short work of the rejected ones...

Adrian Wong · 15th Feb 2007, 01:09 AM

Hahaha.. I love eating the rejects too, cause they are hot and fresh!

ToyotaFreak · 15th Feb 2007, 01:22 AM

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Originally Posted by PsYkHoTiK

Yea, I'm half chinese (my mom is chinese.)

Cool!

Quote:

Originally Posted by PsYkHoTiK

Yea, there'd be most of the cousins there with some of the aunties who'd be around the charcoal fire. I'd be the one standing there with two of my other cousins who'd make short work of the rejected ones...

I wished my mother could make them, but she doesn't have the acuan for it. We've only bought the ready-made ones.

btw, I've tried some of the modernized versions (One of them had a chocolate wafer in each love letter.) from the asian stores down under, but they just didn't taste right. Nothing can beat the traditional one!

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