Chinese New Year

Well, it's a little late, but here are some pictures from last weekend's Chinese New Year bash. We had a pot luck at my mom's house.

Food included a cold meats platter, cold seafood platter, braised beef, steamed beef, braised pork leg over green onions, creamy napa cabbage, fish cake soup, kimchi soup, glutinous rice with pork and mushrooms, Chinese mustard greens, seaweed, turnip cake, whole duck, and probably some other things I'm forgetting. That's me in my holiday red, discussing with my aunt where to start digging in. There's actually another table behind us in the other room filled with more food. We had some vegetarian sushi and such because Sandy brought friends who don't eat meat.

This is the dessert table. The princess cake I brought was very popular because no one had ever had princess cake before. The eight treasure rice, which Junei's mom made, was fantastic. Probably because she used lard in it. The new year's bread, sticky new year's cake, and fruity mango cake were all barely touched. Too much food!