Reunion Dinner 2020 - Year of da Rat

It is the year of the Golden Rat, this 2020.  Becky was born in the year of theGolden Rat.

As per normal, we did not do much except eat, eat, eat and it repeats itself for 13 days and then on the 14th day we celebrate again as its "chap goh meh" like a chinese version of Valentines Day.

Can't believe I survived all the cooking but must admit after all was over, I went to bed and did not get out of it till 2pm the next day!!!

We could not get Eva to wear her cheong sum as she was complaining she was itchy - it has a high chinese collar closed neck and I guess even adults don't like it, so we did not force Eva to stay in it and gave her this casual chinese looking dress instead which I purchased in Singapore.

The tossing of the rainbow salad aka loe sang is like a tradition for us and this year, Eva did a really good job of mixing it up.  She had so much fun, after we served her a portion in her own bowl, she kept tossing it over and over again!

We only had the immediate inlaws over to join us for the reunion dinner and kept it low key.  By tradition, its only for family, so cooking for 5 and 8 makes not much difference!

Had 11 dishes all up including dessert, so it was a pretty good effort on my part even if I have to say so myself.  This year, Eva joined us at the table and she behaved like an adult!

All too soon, dinner was finished under an hour, but luckily for us we had Eva to entertain us jumping up and down the couch onto her little lounger on the floor.  We clapped and encouraged her and she was all hyped up and was jumping and laughing and giggling so all in all, it was a good nite.