Woe

[oyceter]

I am so homesick right now! Not that I am not already grateful to be able to go back twice this year, but I left right as New Year celebrations were starting, and I miss the music and the noise and the red decorations everywhere and the food. It's just not the same here, and all Borders has, holiday-wise, is Valentine's Day stuff. Pah!

At least shopping at Ranch 99 today was extremely New Years-esque: hordes of people, lots of lines, cheesy music, and all the proper foods right there.

I was going to try to steam a fish, but I decided that was rather iffy and am going to make savory nian gao instead. And dumplings. And mi fen. And maybe souffle.

But really, there should be tons of noise and gambling games and firecrackers everywhere!

Comments

[parallactic.livejournal.com]

The hybrid nian gao was crunchy on the outside and sticky rice chewy/gooey on the inside when warm from the oven. When it cooled off, it was a lump of rubber, and tasted like coconuts. So it was actually a coconut flavored/walnut bread/nian gao.

/end oversharing

[oyceter]

Oooooooo tasty! Er, except the rubbery bit, but that seems to happen to all nian gao.

[parallactic.livejournal.com]

I've noticed that with store bought nian gao, but I mostly eat my relatives' homemade nian gao which is more on the gooey side.