Malaysia Airlines organized an yee sang dinner for bloggers at Mum’s Place. There were 25 bloggers in attendance occupying three tables – most of them familiar faces, but I met a couple of bloggers that I haven’t seen IRL before. It was fun! It’s my first yee sang dinner of the year.
The yee sang with salmon!
It’s a tradition in Singapore and Malaysia to lau sang during Chinese New Year. It’s supposed to kickstart an auspicious new year by collectively mixing the ingredients with chopsticks while chanting phrases like “prosperity in the year to come” and all that. 🙂
I just like the colors of the dish and the community aspects.
Steamed rice was served and a plethora of dishes came in quick succession after that. I love the huge prawns – very juicy and succulent.
Another highlight is the Assam Fish. It’s fabulous!
Other memorable dishes were the chicken curry, vegetables, delicious beef slices and the desserts. I had a banana split.
Camwhoring time was scheduled after dinner.
Lots of familiar faces here…
…and people I haven’t met before or haven’t seen in a long time.
Miscellaneous group photos.
Eh, dun la mug me after I just got mugged.
Miss Wai Fong who hosted the dinner. Thanks!
MAS was also very receptive to suggestions on how to improve their service – I offered an experience when I was flying KL – Melbourne on New Year’s Eve and nothing happened at 12 AM. Most of the passengers were left hanging, awake and waiting for some sort of in-flight celebration, but the New Year passed with nary a peep. They took note of that, so I hope your NYE’s flight would be filled with merriment (or at least some party favors and an announcement). 😉
MAS was kind enough to give us all some home made pineapple tarts and a gift pack containing a diary, a DVD and a nifty red USB drive that can be twisted around your wrist like a bracelet. Nice!
More coverage here:
Sultan Muzaffar
Wingz
Red Mummy
Babe in the City
Update:
Eevon just sent me the wittiest offline comment a.k.a. text message this morning alerting me to a disastrous typo. Okay, it’s DIARY, not DAIRY. Amended. 🙂
3rd photo = good 😀
Oooo….So fast Lou sang edi?!
Hehe…new camera pictures yoh!!Chun
HB,
Ever since that time it happen many bloggers are very worry for your safety. We hope you are more careful at night now. That yee yang look very good. My cousin who is married to a former Singapore air hostess make it now in San Francisco and whole family enjoy this dish very much.
Crime is bad in Beijing also. My mom got mugged at ShanLiTun near the U.S. Embassy Rd. She contact the US Embassy and they contact the police. Dress in plain clothing they tooked in the muggers. This happen in daytime . Great for shopping and for crime.
Was supposed to be there too but it was the same night my Mom was arriving from UK so couldn’t make it 🙁
Yike, HB, you met with Babe KL!! Lucky you. I am so jealous. She is one of the few bloggers I want to meet face to face.
Happy CNY.
too bad bro, i’m home in Miri now…can’t get the CNY feel. but the most important are gathering with friends..wish u a Happy CNY…look for u when i’m back in PJ ok…see you
hb is all that food free?….looks very delicious.
you’re the best looking dude their, so i bet you got the most attention out of the males by the females, you alpha dog you.
where are my photos~? 🙂
Happy Chinese New Year to you HB
Tan Yee Hou: Yeah, I had a second yee sang dinner too, with coworkers. At least got yee sang dinner in lieu of reunion dinner. 🙂
hitomi: Ya, I already had two in fact. 🙂
Vickie: Thanks!
Yeah it’s a Singapore/Malaysia tradition that somehow spread its wings to other Chinese communities, AFAIK.
ShaolinTiger: Ah too bad mate, it would have been fun to have you around. 🙂
fish fish: Yeah, it’s my first time meeting up with her. 🙂
No worries, next time you come back to KL then. 🙂
Happy CNY fish fish!
cwee: Ya, I’m so jealous. I wish I can be back in Sarawak too. Sibu sure got CNY feel.
Anyway, yeah, call me when you get back to PJ. Cheers!
WEEN: Yeah, the food is free, courtesy of MAS. Nah, I’m not the best looking dude there. Plenty of other people.
Nicole: Oops…sorry, it’s on it’s way. Zipping up now and uploading. My memory is messed up, you have to remind me one. 🙂
BB: Happy Chinese New Year buddy!
hope tomorrow can lou sang lu!!!
hitomi: Tomorrow? Where? Eh, Genting you can or not? You got fake ID? I thought the entry is still 21? Or has it changed to 18? I’ll be using my passport if I get checked (which I did last year – it would be a compliment if not for the fact that the very and only day I was stopped for ID check was the day I lost). I can borrow you my temporary MyKad but there would be…er, gender discrepancies since I’m a guy. Good news is, I can get 1 guy in. =D
wahaha few minutes of fame in sixthseal.com..thanks for the picture..can i steal it ??
citygal
hello there thanks for your grat post, as usual ((o:
A thoughtful opinion and ideas I will use on my website. You’ve obviously spent some time on this. Thank you!
Hey mate! I thought I might write a comment and assure you that your webpages theme is really smudged on my iPhone 4. Appears to work okay in Opera though. Anyway keep up the fabulous work!
Super blog! I actually love how it is easy on my eyes and also the data are well written. I am wondering how I might be notified whenever a new post has been made. I have subscribed to your rss feed which must do the trick! Have a nice day!
cheers for this awesome Blog post. Nice topic to talk about on my Blog. I might set a bookmark to your page.
If you’re interested in having a guest blog poster please let me know. I will provide you with unique content for your webstie, thanks.
Nice, just to let you know the post isnt showing up properly on my iphone – I think there is a plugin you can grab that takes care of that now.
Man I like your article and it was so good and I am definetly going to save it. One thing to say the Superb analysis this article has is greatly remarkable.No one goes that extra mile these days? Well Done! Just another suggestion you caninstall a Translator for your Global Readers …
I just added your site to my bookmarks. I enjoy reading your posts. Thank you!
I had issues with your website on my browser and had to refresh the page a couple of times…
I have recently started using the blogengine.net and I having some problems here? in your blog you stated that we need to enable write permissions on the App_Data folder…unfortunately I don’t understand how to enable it.
Thank you for using the time and effort to write something which is invokinThank you for using the time and effort to write something so interesting.
Mate! This blog site is awesome! How do you make it look this good .
your are right,I agree with your point of view
There are some interesting points in time therein clause but I don’t know if I see all of them center to centre . There is some validity but I will hold judgement until I look into it further. Good article , thanks and we want more! Added to FeedBurner too.
Its like you read my mind! You seem to know so much about this, like you wrote the book in it or something. I think that you could do with some pics to drive the message home a bit, but other than that, this is great blog. A great read. Ill definitely be back.
When I originally commented I clicked the -Notify me when new comments are added- checkbox and now each time a comment is added I get four emails with the same comment. Is there any way you can remove me from that service? Thanks!
I think your opinions are quite interesting, I enjoy reading what you write. Hope to hear more from you. Subscribed.
The summary was very well done and quite usefull.
I dont completely understand your view, but I get the point.
You really make it seem so easy with your presentation but I find this topic to be really something which I think I would never understand. It seems too complicated and very broad for me. I am looking forward for your next post, I will try to get the hang of it!
wow y0u hit it on the nose will submit 2 digg
I dont completely understand your view, but I get the point.
Thanks for this. Snow coming down in buckets here in Edinburgh!
Well I definitely enjoyed reading it. This post offered by you is very helpful for good planning.
I have been checking out some of your articles and i can state clever stuff. I will make sure to bookmark your website.
i dont really agree with what you are saying how could you think like that?
You are a very clever individual!
Your blog is fine. I just want to comment on the design. Its too loud. Its doing way too much and it takes away from what youve got to say –wch I think is really important. I dont know if you didnt suppose that your words could hold everyones attention, but you were wrong.
Insightful article, thanks for spending the time to assemble it. I like the direction you are taking your blog. I’m bookmarking your blog so I can follow along in the future. Looking forward to more posts soon.
I would like to thnkx for the time you have made in writing this post. I am hoping the same best blogpost from you in the upcoming as well. In fact your creative writing abilities has inspired me to get my own blog now. Truly the blogging is spreading its wings rapidly. Your write up is a fine example of it.
Certainly with all your thoughts here and I like your blog! I’ve bookmarked it to ensure that I am able to keep coming back & read more down the road.
hey, I recently came across your web page from yahoo answers and read through a few of your various other posts. They are stunning. Please keep them coming!!! Take care,
Very nice site! cheap viagra
Very nice site!
If you’re ever interested in getting some affordable link building service, feel free to get in touch with me.
I don’t know about that. I’m not sure I agree with your ideas. I’ll simply agree to disagree. Thanks for the post.
Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love – and to put its trust in life. – Joseph Conrad
I really wish I hadn’t observed this as I really want just one now!
Learning is forging a head. Thinking is foraging a head.
you’re really a good webmaster. The web site loading speed is amazing. It seems that you are doing any unique trick. In addition, The contents are masterwork. you’ve done a wonderful job on this topic!
Carl Sandburg~ Our lives are like a candle in the wind.
He started hating me, cause I couldn’t laugh at his jokes. I just started finding it impossible to laugh at his jokes the way I used to.