We Are Family..I've Got All My Sisters With Me

Last year, March 13th...the Leong family got together to celebrate Chinese New Year in Chinatown with my mother. It was late..way past New Year's but Kathy had been out of town and this was the earliest date where everyone was available. Unfortunately it was also the day where NY might have had a hurricane! We had torrential rains!

This year...Feb 13th...coincidence that it is also a date of the 13th...the Leong family got together for our annual celebration. This time, the day was clear and getting warmer from our frost-filled days.

We ate at the newly renovated Hop Shing and my mother chose the menu of 8 dishes:
Sauteed conch with snap peas, Shrimp with broccoli and walnuts, Crispy skin chicken, Steak cubes with veggies, Sauteed eggplant, Peking pork chop, Roast pork with string beans and a Chinese green veggie. With 11 people in attendance, we asked for 10 bowls of rice and for some reason the waiter tried to talk us out of having what he felt was alot of rice!! Which meant we were determined to not leave a grain! LOL


Love my girls!


Girls love their "haung baos"



Annual portrait whenever I can get it!


The Leong Sisters!

Gung Hay Fat Choi!!

Happy Chinese New Year!! It is the year of the Rabbit which is my sister, Evelyn's year.

With my other sister,Kathy in Florida, the family is not celebrating until she returns next week. So it was a typical Thursday for me. No start of year vegetarian meal of Buddist Delight but instead oatmeal with bananas. As I was checking through my emails and Facebook postings, my doorbell rings. It was UPS and I wasn't expecting any deliveries and certainly not the huge and heavy carton I received. Looking at the sender gave no clues. When I opened the box, this is what I pulled out:

(Calm down, Kathy!!)





O-M-G!!!! What the heck was this? There was a card attached to advised me of the opening of Aldi's in my neighborhood on Feb 18th., something Kathy just told me yesterday! And a "sampling" of their products...WOW! Obviously this is from my participation of the panel I was on last May. The funny thing is I was just on another focus panel this past Monday. It was regarding cellphones and although I didn't get a "sample" cellphone...I did win an extra $25 in a raffle. I LOVE these focus panel groups!!

I am way past the age of getting Hung Pao's - (red envelopes) which I do admit I miss very much. But I'll say this is a pretty good substitution!! :-)

Wishing everyone happiness and prosperity!