To celebrate Chinese New Year among other Asians is the only time I am most excited about. Every year, my girlfriends Joy from Hong Kong will organised a CNY pot-luck gathering at her Asian fast food cafe in Skellefteå. Imagine being at a party that serve more than 30 different types of Asian food from different region. I was told to baked a cake as dessert while the others brought pork stew with preserve cabbage (my mum speciality), peking duck (yummy have´nt eat for for a long time & it´s my favourite!), sweet & sour sambal prawn, XO deer wok,Hainanese Chicken, Shang Hai beef ..you name it! It´s abit embrassing to say that, but I felt like a hungry ghost that was released from gate of hell! I tried almost everything in tablespoon portion, every dishes were cooked with love and care,it make me want to cry! I felt my heart filled with pure happiness & warm.The experience is purely heaven! A Japanese couple at the party asked me if those dishes were 100% Chinese, I told them it´s 1000%. The atmosphere was warm and happy, everyone seem to be extra chatty and friendly even though not everybody understand each other 100%.Since I can speak Hainanese,Teo chew,Cantonese,Hokkien and mandarin,English & Swedish,I felt honored that I can be useful acting as translator at the party.
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8 years ago