Friday, March 04, 2011

Vegetarian Food - A Favourite during CNY

On the eve of Chinese New Year, we went to take away some vegetarian food for breakfast/lunch and the shop, to my surprise, was crowded even at such an early hour at 8am!
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Everyone was taking away food; and I am guessing they are also busy with their own spring cleaning at home ;)
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There was a wide variety of vegetarian dishes available in this shop, and I do like their dishes too.
The owners had gotten creative with their business; all the vegetarian dishes had been given interesting and auspicious names in conjunction with the festive season.
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Every dish had such a meaningful name attached to it; and literally translated to mean good luck, wealth, happiness and good wishes for the celebration.
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Adorable and attractive little money bags; which are fried beancurd wrapped with mixed vegetables.
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Everything here was also wrapped with red packaging. This box of cookies was even attached with a red packet as well.
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Bak Chang; or glutinous rice wrapped in lotus leaf was also sold here.
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Sweet dessert of the day was pumpkin soup; also literally means fortune and wealth.
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The owners were intrigued with my photo taking and even invited me to take photos of the festive decorations around the shop.
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The prices have increased too, and was so surprising to us!
Sighs, that's probably one of the disadvantages (or advantage to the vendors) during festive celebration; where all the prices have shot up sky high!

4 comments:

  1. Wow! The vege was nearly sapu halved as early as 8am?!

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  2. NOT RECOMMENDED. VERY EXPENSIVE for an economy rice outlet.

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  3. Just met a neighbour who also commended that the price is VERY EXPENSIVE.

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  4. cariso, yup, really good business, but the price was really too much though! :(

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