Anyone has a sweet tooth?

After a relaxing week in Hong Kong, we finally got home yesterday. Today is the 6th day of Chinese New Year. Thought it might be interesting to post the do's and don'ts of the 15 days of this festival. (This is from an article written by Lee Lee Tan in 2003. Lim in this article is the head of retail at the World of Feng Shui shop)

Day six:
Time to go visiting again! It's very auspicious to visit friends and relatives from the sixth to the tenth day. Bring kum or golden mandarin oranges to give to loved ones. Never recycle oranges given to you, says Lim. "Give oranges you bought. You shouldn't give away oranges which were given to you as you would be giving away all the good wishes and luck meant for you."

Well, I didn't visit anyone. Tired, and it's too warm to go anywhere. My aunt and cousin popped by tonight. Spent the day cleaning cookie jars and filling them up with the stuff that we've bought to offer visitors. It was fun - what's better than nibbling at goodies while you work?


Cookies: Peanut, green bean, almond, chocolate, bee hives, coffee


Left: Sweets - Chocs in ancient 'gold' money form, pineapple cookie, chocs in 'gold' oranges, Japanese cookies, chocolate pigs, and more chocolates!
Right: Japanese cookies, chocolates wrapped in paper with auspicious words, Japanese jellies, peanuts, dried ginger and cranberries, japanese biscuit


Putting cookies into jars; very cool ang pow packets for children which didn't exist till the last couple of years; the more traditional ang pow packets