Chinese New Years: Time to Kop?

[hellogoodbye]

what kinda food do u guys eat during CNY? i know u have pineapple tarts, do you have Kuehs like we do in singapore? kueh lapis is fucking dope it's basically a cake with 9999 layers, a layer cake. i've probably eaten a whole cake by myself already ITS THAT GOOD.

abalone is fucking overrated

[juliaN.]

never heard of kueh lapis, but that layer cake shit sounds like this dim sum widely available in HK that translates to "Malay Cake" and it's pretty good.

standard CNY dishes:

- Dried oyster w/ that hair looking vegetable (good luck because it rhymes with 'prosperous market and getting rich')

- Some kind of barbecue meat, sometimes served in a potluck type dish where there's duck, chicken, mushrooms, all that shit topped with some thick gravy.

- Some kind of fish dish ('fish' rhymes with the word 'extra/plenty')

and of course you can always have shark's fin soup and abalone if you're ballin. In this economy, we had to eat the prepackaged canned abalones this year. The ones we had today tasted like shit, it had some chemical taste to it that left my mouth kinda numb.

[hellogoodbye]

naw i know what malay cake is it's not that stuff its so much better. malay cake is alright though.

you guys don't have the roasted pork sheets (bak kwa ) ? they're red with black cancerous bits, so fucking delicious

i stopped eating sharks fin after watching this documentary called sharkwater i think, there was this clip where they showed a shark sinking to the bottom of the ocean cuz he/she had no fuckin fins, he looked likea torpedo or something. shit made me kinda teary

[fallen angels]

Nian Gao sticky rice cake, i love the sweet kind, fresh off the frying pan lightly coated with a thin layer of fried egg.

and tang yuan, those rice balls with black esame or peanut filling, boiled in water, sometimes served in syrup water

love that stuff

[juliaN.]

oh shit i forgot about all the nian gao, radish cake and all that shit

not so much a fan of the red/brownish nian gao any more, tried a "coconut milk" nian gao this year that was pretty good.

but i'll always be a shanghainese nian gao man over the sweet variety any day of the week.

[mofonyx]

/wants nian gao and pineapple jam tarts

argh, also tang yuen. Plain or filled with peanut paste.. either way I don't mind. Haven't had them in ages. Sucks studying abroad.

[DaBestSpoona]

Chinese people need to step it up when it comes to CNY food.

Shit is mostly crap yes I know its symbolic, but Osechi is symbolic too but it taste good.

[PandaDenim]

Sup guys, almost time for CNY again.

Any special plans this time round? Besides the usual getting fat? I expect to see a bunch of delicious food.

[Paean]

just need to cop this after cny.

[riotC]

my grandmom's steamboat .

S+

[FADEtoDARKNESS]

Some Chinese girl I know doesn't use purell because her mother said it'd give her cancer.

She's a smoker too.

-F2D

[DaBestSpoona]

copping these wit chinese new years money and wall street bonus

Lumix ZS7

Toshiba 46SV670U

[PandaDenim]

Shiiiit a TV!? I am just excited to grub, shit rocks college food.

[Akura]

^^ sounds ridic to me too! Your fam must give you a stack of red envelopes! I'm just happy to get one from my parents.

[DaBestSpoona]

nah I dont get much from family like 400 max, bonuses are paid around the same time as chinese new year this year.

[pokpok]

i get about 70-100 from family and friends...

dont know wat to kop yet

[azn8oi]

copping these wit chinese new years money and wall street bonus

Lumix ZS7

Toshiba 46SV670U

nah I dont get much from family like 400 max, bonuses are paid around the same time as chinese new year this year.

Doggie, glad you got your hustle on, but 33 year old married men should not be hustling money from oldass aging family members anymore.

[DaBestSpoona]

aint no hustle when I have to give out envelopes too.

[DJ_Flame]

Chinese new year steamboat with that hotplate setup...grilled kidney, liver, beef, shrimp, abalone, lobster fucking I can park my ass and eat for 4 hours straight.

[prokart]

Nian Gao sticky rice cake, i love the sweet kind, fresh off the frying pan lightly coated with a thin layer of fried egg.

and tang yuan, those rice balls with black esame or peanut filling, boiled in water, sometimes served in syrup water

love that stuff

fucking tang yuan has been my favorite since i was like 6 haha

there's not much happening in montreal during CNY i think. people here are more about the valentines day. what really sucks is I dont get the red envelopes until like summer when i go back to taiwan.

[jl3969]

landing in brazil on CNY > TVs or jeans

[ph1l]

i wont be spending too much of my money. i'll be saving til i get my job in march

[bfan]

if I get enough cash I'm gonna buy a nice bong with a percolator

thanks mom and dad!

[PandaDenim]

if I get enough cash I'm gonna buy a nice bong with a percolator

thanks mom and dad!

I'm pretty sure that's one of the things that you should not spend your hong bao on.

Demons will attack you.

You've been warned.

[Seething Tortoise]

Killing myself on a rowing boat.

Then on the night, going home from uni and doing family shits before heading back to uni again on the sunday evening.

I get red envelope monies and my bursary from uni within a week of each other this year. I'm going to be rolling in monies.

Really looking forward to it though, it be my nephew's first CNY, not like he'll remember. I expect my bro to do a repeat of Christmas and give him something like £3000 worth of shit he will never remember or care about...or money in a savings account for the future, who knows.

[sushijerk]

How fucking old are you guys? My family stopped giving after middle school. And when I was in grade school I was broke ass in China so getting a good haul of 20-50 RMB would be like "hoooooooly shit I'm copping tons of bookleg DBZ books."

Reading this thread is making me feel like I'm on a different planet.

[ph1l]

i've always thought that you are suppose to keep getting them until you are married. once you're married you stop receiving and start giving red envelopes

[willy cheesesteak]

i've always thought that you are suppose to keep getting them until you are married. once you're married you stop receiving and start giving red envelopes

yep

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[PandaDenim]

Yeah that's what I've always been told.

[DaBestSpoona]

I give too now, but I still get but surprising since my family be toisan and they be the cheapest of all china people, like they do shit like buy a Mercedes SLK with no AC if that was an option, buy a 20k watch and still eat 3 dollar chinatown combo of lop cheung, egg, and chicken on rice at Gei Gei. I married a J beezy and get envelopes from my j family now, and my j family gets envelopes from my folks.

Another reason I think I still get is because my dad hooked all my relatives on his side up (8 uncles and aunts) and got their asses out of china legally(no golden venture). My mom's side dont give me anything, they be all hk people..