New Year in Hinschu and Taipei

On January 24, we went to Hsinchu to celebrate New Year with the whole family. We had a good meal! Later that day, my mom and I went to Taipei with my cousin, my aunt, and my grandparents while my brother and my dad returned home. I hung around with my cousin and my grandparents. On Saturday, we went to see my Ah-ma's (grandmother) relatives! We returned home on Monday afternoon. (The picture on the left is me, and the hand is my cousin's. She drew the eye herself, using my makeup.)

Thanks to my brother for some of the pictures!

Jan. 24, Tuesday:

My brother. Yay!

My beautiful cousin.

We were playing cards.

My brother played Lego Racers.

Our New Year meal!

My Ah-ma, holding red envelopes.

Hmm... delicious!

Shrimp hot pot.

Dong-po pork with broccoli.

Yup, that's my dad and my brother.

My mom holding the pasta that I made by her instructions.

It was my Ah-ma's birthday, too. So my aunt made chocolate cake, which was incredibly delicious.

My aunt had cut it.

We enjoyed the tasty cake.

Jan. 26, Thursday:

We went out to buy shoes for both me and my Ah-gong (grandfather).

My Ah-ma's homemade food. Wood-ear fungus.

Vegetarian kidney.

Cauliflower with mushrooms.

Red-cooked tofu with mushrooms.

Jan. 27, Friday:

We went out to the vegetarian restaurant that we always go to whenever we're in Taipei.

Gong-bou stinky tofu.

Vegetarian lamb with pea sprouts.

Stinky tofu pot.

Dogs in the pet shop.

A large fruit stand.

Jan. 28, Saturday:

We went to see my Ah-ma's relatives, who they haven't seen in years!

The metro station was empty - on a Saturday.

Everybody was studying the map.

Everybody was studying the map again.

My Uncle's - my mom's older cousin - place!

All of us went out to lunch together.

This is the "older generation". My cousin and I had to sit with "our generation", my distant cousins. They're more than ten years my senior.

Appetizer.

My distant cousin with, technically, my niece (another of my distant cousin's daughter.).

This is a vegetarian restaurant.

What an interesting dish. Taro dessert.

Deep fried burdock slices.

Vegetarian soup with Chinese medicine.

Mochiko cake with brown sugar.

Dates.

Yogurt drink.

My Ah-gong's calligraphy was hanging in the restaurant!

One of my great Uncle's calligraphy - a word written with many words. The word means "Buddha".

We returned to my Uncle's place.

One of my Uncles, my Mom's cousin, and his wife.

There's me.

My mom and I.

My cousin with my grandparents.

We returned after an exhausting day.

Jan. 29, Sunday night:

My mom and I went to the night market.

We went home the next day!

A Happy New Year~