A couple weeks ago, we celebrated Chinese New Year by closing out the Year of the Monkey. Now we get to celebrate by bringing in the Year of the Rooster! Many of the dishes are family traditions which will look familiar from the last feast, but I love to eat these foods so I don’t mind the repeat at all. I like to think of it as an encore presentation. Plus eating these foods is supposed to bring things like good luck, long life, and prosperity, which you can never have too much of.
Dinner
Fun See for long life – bean thread noodles with scrambled egg.
Fat Choy for prosperity – black moss with egg and ground pork.
8 ingredient stir-fry for good luck.
Whole roasted ducks – my Aunt Cathy got two because she knows how much duck my cousin Kristi and I can devour. What an awesome aunt!
One whole soy sauce chicken, and one whole white chicken with ginger scallion oil.
Chinese black mushrooms with abalone for wish fulfillment.
Beef tongue in the middle, BBQ pork on the perimeter.
Roast pork. Those little containers are the ginger scallion oil which is supposed to go with the whole white chicken. Some confused person put it on the wrong plate, which I quickly remedied. Though I will admit I love that sauce and don’t mind putting it on everything.
Sticky rice with Chinese sausage and shiitake mushrooms.
Dessert
As always, we had to have desserts. Once again, we strayed for the most part away from traditional Chinese desserts, because who wants red beans when they can have chocolate and pie!?
We reprised our lychee and longan pie, only as more of a galette this time (find my Guessipe here).
We did a pineapple cream pie, which is fast becoming one of my favorite pies (find my Guessipe here).
There was an Italian rum cake, just because.
And a Boston Cream Pie, because my cousin Doug had never had one before. He is a food lover like me, so I don’t know how that was possible. And why is it called a pie? It’s definitely a cake.
I made a Coffee Cocoa Magic Cake. It’s “magic” because you pour one bowl of liquid into a cake pan, and during baking it magically separates itself into 3 layers. Go here to find out more.
