My eighth Chinese New Year since manryirg into a Vietnamese-Chinese family. The food consisted of: roast pork Chinese style (little cubes of crackling with pork attached), stuffed chicken wings (dont ask me how my sister-in-law did this, as I wasn't there at the time), boiled free range chicken (including the feet and head), a delicious salad made of shredded chicken, daikon and carrot all sort of pickelled, and a bunch of more mundane stuff.The highlight as usual was burning the heaven money and burning incense to the ancestors . My father died in 1982 but my wife (who never met him) obtained a photograph, and as he is the patriarchal ancestor, he has pride of place in the family altar before which is displayed a feast of roast chicken, pork, fruit etc and several small glasses of wine. Ever since, on every Chinese New Year my agnostic Dad sits in a Confucian heaven surrounded by my wife's monolingual Chinese and Vietnamese ancestors.But he always loved Chinese food and his only complaint (I...
My eighth Chinese New Year since manryirg into a Vietnamese-Chinese family. The food consisted of: roast pork Chinese style (little cubes of crackling with pork attached), stuffed chicken wings (dont ask me how my sister-in-law did this, as I wasn't there at the time), boiled free range chicken (including the feet and head), a delicious salad made of shredded chicken, daikon and carrot all sort of pickelled, and a bunch of more mundane stuff.The highlight as usual was burning the heaven money and burning incense to the ancestors . My father died in 1982 but my wife (who never met him) obtained a photograph, and as he is the patriarchal ancestor, he has pride of place in the family altar before which is displayed a feast of roast chicken, pork, fruit etc and several small glasses of wine. Ever since, on every Chinese New Year my agnostic Dad sits in a Confucian heaven surrounded by my wife's monolingual Chinese and Vietnamese ancestors.But he always loved Chinese food and his only complaint (I imagine) is the small size of the wine cups.
Soumis par Emre (invité) le sam. 15 déc. 2012 00:10:54 CET
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Google Ads and Amazon affiliate links at the monmet and then see what opportunities become available by selling ads directly to businesses.We've been forbidden from using pay-per-post or similar schemes, which is a smart decision I think.You have to be picky about ads. I don't think people resent them if they are not too obtrusive. My general strategy is while you're here, you might find this interesting , and then move back to the content.But people hate seeing friendly articles in return for an ad. If I try and pretend something is interesting when I think it isn't, I'll fail.BTW I've found very good for advice if anyone else is interested in trying to make money blogging. I actually started reading it just for ideas on how to make Let's Take Over more readable, without any plans for ads, but the job ad for Brisbane Is Home turned up on the job boards there.Mark, you should think about reviewing more books that you can link to on Amazon, I think.I guess it's not too off topic to be talking about plans for making money at Chinese New Year
Soumis par Vano (invité) le sam. 15 déc. 2012 00:09:35 CET
On Saturday night, nine of us (4 adults, 5 kids) went to a Chinese rasteurant in Blacktown. It was for a birthday celebration, though it also happened to be Chinese New Year. We got there early and were lucky enough to see a fireworks celebration and a lion dance. The kids sifted through the mounds of red paper left after the firecrackers had gone off and they found two unexploded firecrackers which they kept for later.The rasteurant was packed, mostly with Chinese families, but fortunately we had booked a table for 7.30pm. We spoke to three waiters, each of whom promised to find another waiter to take our orders, but after an hour we had received no service, so we all got up and left. We joked about how we had spared the kids seeing a live lobster get killed, but really we were very upset at the lack of service.We were all desperate to get something to eat, and we were thinking especially of the kids who were getting very fidgetty. Fortunately there was a grill nearby which took us in. The waitress was...
On Saturday night, nine of us (4 adults, 5 kids) went to a Chinese rasteurant in Blacktown. It was for a birthday celebration, though it also happened to be Chinese New Year. We got there early and were lucky enough to see a fireworks celebration and a lion dance. The kids sifted through the mounds of red paper left after the firecrackers had gone off and they found two unexploded firecrackers which they kept for later.The rasteurant was packed, mostly with Chinese families, but fortunately we had booked a table for 7.30pm. We spoke to three waiters, each of whom promised to find another waiter to take our orders, but after an hour we had received no service, so we all got up and left. We joked about how we had spared the kids seeing a live lobster get killed, but really we were very upset at the lack of service.We were all desperate to get something to eat, and we were thinking especially of the kids who were getting very fidgetty. Fortunately there was a grill nearby which took us in. The waitress was very pleasant, and we started off with garlic bread, but unfortunately, we later worked out, this was a ploy to keep us there, because they too took another hour to bring us the main courses. Two of us shared a $70 seafood platter. At the end there was a huge mound about half a kilo of mixed lettuce. We felt ripped off.We were all pretty disappointed by service from both rasteurants. The avarage main dish in the Chinese rasteurant was about $18. The average dish in the grill was about $22. My advice to anyone dining out in Sydney avoid Blacktown.
Soumis par Mahamad (invité) le jeu. 27 sept. 2012 02:54:10 CEST