It is now Thursday night. I'm writing this in advance - and by the time you read it I would have already been 3 days deep in baking madness.
There will be 3 more days to go, and then I will rest on Thursday - for Thursday night is when the traditional reunion dinner will take place for Chinese families celebrating the
Lunar New Year (aka Chinese New Year aka CNY) on Friday and Saturday. (Click on the link for a quick guide to CNY in southeast asia!)
This also means that there will be NO time or energy for celebrating Valentine's Day.
Which is why when we both took the day off and went across the border to cheaper-goods-land today I told Daddy we should just celebrate V day early - and I offered to buy him lunch. Which, you guessed it, meant more Jap food! We love this restaurant, and Japanese eateries are great for low-carbers.
First, we found a street side fair that had row upon row of crackers and cookies which are usually offered to guests who visit relatives at CNY and we bought tons of stuff there as I had been tasked with getting stuff for my colleagues and Daddy had been given a wad of cash to exchange for goodies for his office pantry!
Then we drove to our favourite Japanese place to have lunch.
Deep fried tofu with a variety of condiments
Battered and deep fried pork cutlet with mayo / Grilled squid with miso sauce
Deep fried lotus root and bacon salad with garlic chips
And of course, SASHIMI!
After lunch we went to the mall where I went crazy and bought up some more cookies and crackers.
Take a look at some of the types of stuff we bought : (pics taken off the web)
I would love to show you the actual things I bought but they're in paper bags and sitting in a heap on the table and I'm too tired to unwrap everything for a picture. So these will have to do.
TOP-BOTTOM, L-R : Kueh Lapis (Layer Cake), Prawn Rolls, Kuih Bangkit,
Bak Kwa (pork jerky), Nian Gao (New year cake - a sticky flour and sugar concoction),
Love Letters aka Egg Rolls, Kuih Baulu, Pineapple Tarts
L-R : Peanut Cookies, Cashew Cookies
Too many to name... but you see what I'm up against here? This is why FFF is a real challenge!
More layer cake (which is the thing I bake) and pineapple tarts
and crispy fried something that I can't identify
Tarts, cookies, cookies, rolls, cookies, um... you get the idea
See above
I did get some interesting variations in addition to the standard fare:
Cheese Bangkit,
Cheese Pineapple-Blueberry Tarts,
Durian Love Letters!
OK so I ended up buying 18 tubs of various things, and I think Daddy had about 10+ too. He also bought pork jerky for the office. I didn't need any. (I've already gone thru one box and I have another sitting in the fridge... plus two more coming next week!)
Then we came home.
I undressed him, and rubbed his legs a little cos he'd been having a knee ache all day. I teased him about it - cos every time he stepped out of the car he'd be limping... the typical "I'm old and achy" geriatric gait... you know?
I'm sympathetic tho. I know what that feels like. But thankfully I haven't had to deal with any pains in a while.
I made an ice cold cup of honey and made him drink it - I don't think he drinks enough water. For that matter, neither did I, today. But we BOTH needed something a little more than just H2O after the long day we had and after lugging all my stuff back up to my flat.
Oh, did I forget to mention that we stopped at my mini-mart on the way back for me to buy 24 blocks of butter, 2 kilos of flour, and 5 dozen eggs for tomorrow's start-of-bakefest? We trudged home with 5 bags of stuff. Big bags too.
Yeah. We needed to lie down.
Then I began to knead his tired muscles. And his not-at-all-tired Roger.
Who woke up quickly enough.
After some sucking he reached for a nipple. I had on a loose fitting tank dress which had a wide enough neckline that the shoulder straps could come right off, so I shrugged the top of my dress off, letting it pool around my waist where I was sitting beside him. Daddy seemed to appreciate the exposed boobs.
He fiddled and tweaked, and pushed my head down on Roger and soon enough I wanted him in me!
So we swapped places, I got below him, and we did our Valentine's Day duty!