CNY in Houston...
The CNY here is nothing much. We heard that there is a celebration somewhere but we didn’t go. The HK restaurant we went to was full of people. How we spent our CNY is so unlike Singapore. There is basically no mood here. At first, we wanted to buy a steamboat and have steamboat for dinner on chu xi. But we cant reach a consensus, hence in the end, we went to this HK food street restaurant to eat.. Not too bad… Then we spent the night playing ban luck.. hahaha.. quite fun though… But still I missed CNY in Singapore… and here don’t have ang paos… hahaha… oh ya, btw my friend cooked red bean soup with saga seeds just like my mum used to cook desserts on CNY eve in Singapore.. Haaa… missed home…Next day was a Sunday hence me, my bf and two other Christians friends went to check out the West Houston Chinese Church. The service is similar to Singapore one. They have similar worship songs.. But so far people here don’t worship like we do. They are generally very traditional. I find it a bit getting used to.. like I tend to raise my hand/s during worship.. I find that I stood out like almost a sore thumb. It is kinda awkward, very restricted in a way. The previous one (Houston First Baptist Church) is also very traditional. They sing hymms mostly. But the sermons at the 2 churches are good. I really missed worshipping and having service with my fellow brothers and sisters-in-Christ at FCBC…Missed going out with them to JB… whahaha…
That Sunday we went back to cook.. and the lunch was heavenly.. We had black pepper prawns, steamed fish with ginger, suan cai, chilli and tomatoes, and bitter gourd soup and stir-fried veg with prawns and scallops and golden needles mushroom. I tell you this is more like reunion dinner ma… hahaha.. The lunch was late at 2pm or 3pm… whahaha.. But we were so full that we din take our dinner. We had just bak kut teh (cooked by another friend) at 10pm and I made some oatmeal porridge. It was a good Chu Yi… at Houston.. Satisfied…
posted by Ying @ 11:40:00 PM
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