I'm trying to make a Chinese New Year's meal this year... When I was a
kid, my parents made four different dishes like the following:

1. clear noodles with dried shrimp
2. black moss with lotus root
3. steamed chicken
4. ???

I don't remember the fourth dish. Does someone know what is the fourth
dish??

Any help will be appreciated!!

-Emmeline

Emmeline wrote:

I'm trying to make a Chinese New Year's meal this year... When I was a
kid, my parents made four different dishes like the following:

1. clear noodles with dried shrimp
2. black moss with lotus root
3. steamed chicken
4. ???


I don't remember the fourth dish. Does someone know what is the fourth
dish??

Monk's dish.. all veggies I think or maybe with squid.
At least that's what we eat at my wife's family's house.


We also eat char sui, pig knuckles, and pork with rind,

but those aren't the typical dishes.


--
Dan

Emmeline wrote:

I'm trying to make a Chinese New Year's meal this year... When I was a
kid, my parents made four different dishes like the following:

1. clear noodles with dried shrimp
2. black moss with lotus root
3. steamed chicken
4. ???

I don't remember the fourth dish. Does someone know what is the fourth
dish??

Any help will be appreciated!!

-Emmeline

from http://asiarecipe.com/thaveg.html#buddha

Buddha's Delight
A special dish to help get your Yin/Yang in better balance. Especially
popular during the Chinese New Year


Ingredients
15g. (1/2 oz.) dried bean curd skin sticks
1/3 cup (15g./1/2 oz.) dried tiger lily bulbs
3-4 tbs. (15 g.) dried wood ears (black fingers)
10 g. (1/4 oz.) dried black moss
50 g. (2 oz.) bamboo shoots
50 g. lotus root
50 g. straw mushrooms
4 tbs. oil
1-1/2 tsp. salt
1 tsp. sugar
1 tbs. light soy sauce
1 tsp. cornstarch mixed with 1 tbs. cold water
2 tsp. sesame oil for garnish
Directions
Soak dried veggies separately in cold water overnight, or in warm water
for at least an hour.
Cut bean curd sticks into short lengths.
Cut bamboo and lotus root into small slices.
Heat wok.
When hot put in half the oil and wait until it smokes.
Stir fry all dry veggies with a little salt for one minute.
Remove vegetables from wok and set aside.
Add and heat remaining oil and stirfry rest of the veggies with salt.
Add partly cooked dry veggies, sugar, soy sauce, stirring constantly.
If it dries out add a little water.
When cooked add cornstarch mix.
Garnish with sesame oil and serve immediately.

Lawrence wrote in message ...

from http://asiarecipe.com/thaveg.html#buddha

Buddha's Delight
A special dish to help get your Yin/Yang in better balance. Especially
popular during the Chinese New Year

My parents make this Buddha's Delight or Jai for breakfast on New
Years. Thanks for the receipe. I'm going to try to make this for
breakfast. THANKS!!

Dan Logcher wrote in message ...

Monk's dish.. all veggies I think or maybe with squid.
At least that's what we eat at my wife's family's house.

sounds good, don't know about the squid. :-)

We also eat char sui, pig knuckles, and pork with rind,

Interesting. I found lots of different dishes related to Chinese New
Year with different meanings. Maybe I'll mix & match to create my own
4th dish.
THANKS!

Emmeline wrote:

Lawrence wrote in message ...

from http://asiarecipe.com/thaveg.html#buddha

Buddha's Delight
A special dish to help get your Yin/Yang in better balance. Especially
popular during the Chinese New Year

My parents make this Buddha's Delight or Jai for breakfast on New
Years. Thanks for the receipe. I'm going to try to make this for
breakfast. THANKS!!

When I was still living in the States (a dinosaur's age ago!) my Thai girlfriend (no wonder I
ended-up here!) in San Francisco was a follower of MaeGuanIm. They eat only vegetarian, and
they also delete onions, garlic...and bunch of other stuff...This recipe (minus the sesame
oil) was one of her favorites, not just for New Year, but on 'Wan Phra', 'Buddha's Day',
too, which happens a few times per month, often on Wed. , it seems....One reason why it used
to be very difficult in Thailand to get your hair cut on Wed, according to some. Now,
economics is the new religion for many, so you can get your hair cut anytime now. They're
also building many private retirement homes now....Impossible to find a few years ago....

Anyway, my wife, also Thai, makes batches at home. Kinda stinks up the place, in my opinion.
Still, it's better than durian, hence, my 'palace law' about durian being an 'outside' fruit.


Lawrence
(wondering if Thai retirement homes have masseuses and internet...)