A lion dancing truck - the lion dancers bring good luck and prosperity to whoever and wherever they dance, and while they are doing it there is someone beating a very loud drum. The lions give out peeled oranges from their mouths, verydramatic
Ox with capes and luscious red lips
green areas are decorated with these - the year of the OX, what will they think of next
""Low High"" Salad that is eaten - it is tossed by everyone around the table with their chopsticks as high as possible to bring lots of prosperity
A mandarin bush for decoration, also use Four Lime bushes or trees and Pussy Willow which are decorated with red ribbons or red pipecleaners
the inside of a Pomelo
Pomelo - another CNY fruit that they tend to eat - they are huge, rather like a grapefruit, but much less juicy and not as bitter - delish on their own and would feed a whle rugby team!
At a little shop that specialised in bbq'd pork called Bak --- which is a little like a 4" square of streaky bacon that has been covered in spices and honey and then bbq'd - it was delicious, slightly sweet and rather morish (I had thought it looked like fried spam and would have been as tough as old boots - I was so wrong!
all the Chinese houses are decorated with red banners/sashes and red paper lanterns, or red paper pineapples - very colourful
another CNY delicacy - gluteanous rice cakes with dessicated coconut inside or peanut butter or bean paste - not very pleasant. The green is from he pandan leaf - these were 50cents each and sank to the bottom of your stomach
once cooked the biscuits are carefully packed into the tubs. We were only able to buy one tub each as there was such a demand for them from the locals, 5 days before CNY
the Aunties painstakingly rollingup the pineapple which has been slightly dessicated into tiny balls that are then surrounded by buttery biscuit mixture
Making Pineapple biscuits for CNY - $19 for 25 a labour of love, but delicious
A lion dancing truck - the lion dancers bring good luck and prosperity to whoever and wherever they dance, and while they are doing it there is someone beating a very loud drum. The lions give out peeled oranges from their mouths, verydramatic
Ox with capes and luscious red lips
green areas are decorated with these - the year of the OX, what will they think of next
""Low High"" Salad that is eaten - it is tossed by everyone around the table with their chopsticks as high as possible to bring lots of prosperity
A mandarin bush for decoration, also use Four Lime bushes or trees and Pussy Willow which are decorated with red ribbons or red pipecleaners 
the inside of a Pomelo
Pomelo - another CNY fruit that they tend to eat - they are huge, rather like a grapefruit, but much less juicy and not as bitter - delish on their own and would feed a whle rugby team!
At a little shop that specialised in bbq'd pork called Bak --- which is a little like a 4" square of streaky bacon that has been covered in spices and honey and then bbq'd - it was delicious, slightly sweet and rather morish (I had thought it looked like fried spam and would have been as tough as old boots - I was so wrong!
all the Chinese houses are decorated with red banners/sashes and red paper lanterns, or red paper pineapples - very colourful
another CNY delicacy - gluteanous rice cakes with dessicated coconut inside or peanut butter or bean paste - not very pleasant. The green is from he pandan leaf - these were 50cents each and sank to the bottom of your stomach
once cooked the biscuits are carefully packed into the tubs. We were only able to buy one tub each as there was such a demand for them from the locals, 5 days before CNY
the Aunties painstakingly rollingup the pineapple which has been slightly dessicated into tiny balls that are then surrounded by buttery biscuit mixture
Making Pineapple biscuits for CNY - $19 for 25 a labour of love, but delicious
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