elusivek | Day 3 of CNY (Reply)

It's Day 3 of the CNY, and culturally speaking (not sure if is just limited to Cantonese speaking areas or all of China) and we call it the 赤口, "red mouth". So during the Chinese New Year, people should go visit families in their homes. Day 3 being 赤口 means you should avoid visiting people because it's "easy to get in quarrels" (you can think of it as red = anger). My group of besties (3 of us) have this "tradition" of specifically meeting up on this day. It also so happened that one of the places I work for has a Lion Dance on this day, so... I know I posted a video last year already, but here's a video of this year. Since we got a "new" office, I figured we might as well do the Lion Dance visiting the office. I didn't want my staff to have to show up on a holiday and not get any overtime pay, so I figured I'd just show up. It was just opening the door and hanging the bunch of veggies over the door. I've tried to trim in-between the boring stuff. I found the last part pretty funny where the event rep told the Lion crew it went the wrong way haha. I also liked just before the Lion came in and was like peeking through the door haha so cute.

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We were to go to somewhere downtown for lunch, originally, but on the previous Saturday, I noticed the situation of downtown Macau and how it was hordes of people, I mentioned to let's go somewhere likely to have less people, where at least the place wouldn't be really packed. Someone in a group chat I'm in sent this photo of downtown Macau. I can't imagine going down there, ugh...

My friends and I figured Turkish food would not be one of the first things people think about when eating out during Chinese New Year, but man, the restaurant was, although not packed, it was almost 100% occupancy. We ordered a Hummus and a... Pide? (I've forgotten the name already). Oh and a Turkish seafood soup, I think. Quite nice.

This is actually a weird restaurant combination - it's Turkish food and South East Asian Food. But, at least, the food is good. Crispy chicken (Chinese style) was surprisingly very, very good. We also ordered a "Low-Hay" 撈起, basically it's all auspicious things, raw fish, shredded carrots, ginger, whatever else, and then you have to mix it up "higher and higher". If you can understand Cantonese, feel free to listen to our weird conversation lol. Basically at one point we were dissing the "God of Wealth" because he was disturbing us from doing the Low-Hay.

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I've mentioned, the surprisingly good chicken.

Dessert was a randomly chosen item, we were pretty full already, so it was just one sweet thing to sort of "complete" the meal.

And just like that, this 3-day break is over. Back to work tomorrow, and then it's the weekend. Why didn't I take tomorrow off as well? Nah, I'm collecting my annual leave for something else later.