Longgggggg time to see...
Oh man ....I skipped my blog for all those favourite festive seasons (birthday,christmas etc) of mine~!
Dang....I believe you'd already know if I didnt update about it or just decided to skip it..
It means really NOTHING special about it....
I mean...It was just another day of ,i wake up ..i farted...i hungry..i eat..i sleep...
Except the bf brought me to TS and Pavilion to window shopping hahahhahaaaaa***bitter smile**
Anyway.I did write about it in Dayre...
You can always follow me there to know more about my daily random thoughts and life =D
Back to the topic....
The making of Nian Gao...
For those non chinese readers or friendsof mine...
It is called as Kuih Bakul in malay and in english...I suppposed it's called Chinese New Year's sweet rice cake.
Some basic information of this cake
The Chinese word 粘 (nián), meaning "sticky", is identical in sound to 年, meaning "year", and the word 糕 (gāo), meaning "cake" is identical in sound to 高, meaning "high or tall". As such, eating nian gao has the symbolism of raising oneself taller in each coming year
Geddit??hehehhehehe..NO?
Nevermind lah...It is basically just a type of traditional CNY food.
So....One day....
Aunty leong(one of my mom's friend) suggested that we should make some nian gao for the upcoming CNY .
She had been helping out her grandmother for almost 20 years to make the nian gao for sell.
Back in those days....Nian gao was one of the most seller during CNY..
After Aunty Leong grandma passed away for quiet some time...she wanted to make once again to bring back her memories..and she did asked whether we wanted to join or not.
We( me and my mom)both loves cooking and explore new things..SO we said..:"why not?"
So on the 1st night, we started up by making the containers/mould to fill up the nian gao mixture by using banana leaves and those tins.
"The banana leaves have to be burn slighty on top charcoal fire to make it more soft and flexible"
Then we tear off the banana leaves into smaller slice and arranged it nicely into the tins with the help of a tomato sauce bottle.
This is us in the middle of working hard to make almost 80++ large,medium,small tins moulds!
That was the 1st day,
If you wonder why we don't finish it all in one day because Aunty Leong and her family have to work during day time in their groceeries shop so do mummy have to work too.
So we divided the steps into few days
The next day,
Aunty Leong brought 2 packs of 16kg glutinuos rice to our house(filled with water)
Oh my god...so heavy!
We need to squeeze out the excessed water from the glutinous flour for almost 6 hours.
And now's the time to wait till the night comes!
After a long wait for almost 7-8 hours.....The flour is ready to be breakdown and let's rock the nian gao mixture!
Kick start throwing in half a box of sugar into it!
Following up by breaking those squeezed flour into the tub and mixed it all together!
Two simple ingredients ,Thats it!
Here we are all having fun with the flour and sugar...
With some CNY songs playing.... we feel extremely happy and united!
The daddies are making fire to steam the cakes..
Woohoooo~!!!The day we made nian gao....the wind help us to make this process speed up!
Looking good huh.
In a blink of eye,The mixture is almost ready...You can see in the above picture..The nian gao mixture had been fully dissolved and they are ready to be fill in!
Looking good huh.
So after all the hardwork fillings..
It's time to put them into the big steamer and be PATIENT to steam it for 12-14 hours...
We were supposed agreed to be awake and takiing shift to look after the water level(we need to continuosly add in water to make sure the steaming process never stop and goes well)
BUT....ended up only my super dad who stay awake whole night...
The rest of us (who promised to take shift) doozed off in the tent that my brother built..hahahha
We saw the progress!!!Everyone was WOW-ing ....
I guess everyone of us who participated this activities feels satisfied and proud!
wow........ TAK CUKUP BAGI LAHHHH....
At last my mom told me that we have to make another round for this again due to the over responsed from our other friends and families..NOT FOR SALE LAH><
Hahahahhahaha...overall...we really had a great and unforgettable experience this year..
Lastly,CNY is around the corner...
"I wish prosperity will fall in your lawn
with blooming flowers of
happiness and success
every moment of the next year
will be a reminder of
this best chinese new year ever!"
with blooming flowers of
happiness and success
every moment of the next year
will be a reminder of
this best chinese new year ever!"
新年快乐，万事如意！
