Today is Chinese New Year and I felt out-of-mood as Chinese New Year approached. So, I drowned myself in Chinese New Year songs while working. I called home and everyone was not in a happy mood either. I miss being with my family. But so does everyone else in the whole wide world. Hopefully, I will be back next year. I have been limiting social contact with friends here and I suppose it does put a strain on keeping in touch digitally.
For Chinese New Year, because everyone posted lots of foods and cookies, I tried to cook a nice meal for the 2 of us. It was not much but at least I had a fish dish, because 'nian nian you yu'!
Top dish: Falafel on spinach and grated carrots, pork and ginger dumplings. Eight for each dish because eight sounds like 'fa' in Mandarin i.e. fa cai = well-off.
Bottom dish: Fish fillets cooked in chorizo sausage and tomato sauce.
I added an ang pow on the table for a Chinese New Year feeling. :-)
