Chinese New Year celebration

One thing that we agreed on when we got married, is to have simple, frugal celebration of Chinese New Year.

One of the reason is that no one actually want to eat all the junk food sold specially during CNY. Everyone is health conscious nowadays, and preferred plain water. Our friends and relatives came to have intimate chit chat or just to keep up to date with everyone.... they don't really care about the food served on the table. In the end, the 'leftover' junk food will either be thrown away, or into my own stomach. (I will eat them when they are so easily available)

Another reason is that I wanted to minimize the intake of junk food for myself and also for my kids.

That being said, every year dearest hubby will take on the task of baking a variety of cheese cakes. This year, he baked 4 cakes and a jelly. MIL gave us 2 cakes, an aunt gave us 2 cakes and a special jelly and we bought 2 more cakes. We also prepared Malay food of Chicken Curry and Beef Rendang with rice - these are mainly to satisfy our student's appetite. We did buy a few types of junk food, and we will only serve them when the kids are not around - (sleeping).