CNY!!

This post is especially for Chee...

Apparently I'm meant to blog about CNY here. I wasn't intending to but then Chee tagged about it and now I feel guilty so here's the guilt-induced blog about CNY.

Guess what ppl, it's the year of the rat!! I don't know that many people who are rats...too bad.

Celebrating CNY over here always seems so different coz I never 'pai nien' obviously coz my relatives are back home. Even though there's the lion/dragon dancing and all those performances that come with CNY, it's so much more commercialized here. There's always food stalls selling chinese/viet food and those $2 stalls selling crap made in China. Very Asianized. Plus they have rides for little kids. And banks too. You'd never fail to have a bank stall at one of these CNY festivals.

Anyway...this year...I went to some of the 'lunar new year' festivals. My first experience of these festivals. It was alright...nothing big...but you'd want to go with friends to these sort of things. I mainly ate the festivals. Heh...sorry...can't help it. Food and me go together pretty well, plus some of the food was quite good. Esp the meatball things. No idea what they're called.

To my surprise...they have Ice kacang at the festivals. It's not really a chinese new year thing but oh well. At least i don't have to go home to have authentic Ice kacang...even though they only have it once a year.