Gearing up to the year of the Dragon
Preparing to welcome the Lunar New Year It is that time of the year again... straight after Christmas, everyone is back to preparing and welcoming the Lunar New Year. [...]
From the kitchen to connections and empowerment
Your kitchen - a natural classroom! My amazing editor, Dana, sent this link to me: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-07-18/childrens-literacy-study-links-hearing-words-to-reading-ability/8697138 There are two amazing articles in there, but for today, we are going [...]
Glutinous Rice Balls (Kuih Ee)
Glutinous Rice Balls Making Kuih Ee (Tang Yuan or 汤圆), or in English - Glutinous Rice Balls, was one of the highlights of the many festivities we [...]
Connections, Culture and Childhood Favourite Dishes
I had previously written about bridging the cultural and generational gaps through childhood dishes and why I am an advocate for introducing your favourite childhood dishes to your friends [...]
Why are Traditions and Cultures Important to Families?
Your Traditions and Your Values – sharing cultures February 10th 2024 is Chinese New Year; it is also known as the spring festival or lunar new year. It goes [...]
Chinese New Year and the symbolism of the Steamboat
A steamboat dinner or reunion meal for my family is traditionally held on Chinese New Year's Eve. It is one of the most important meals for family members as they [...]
Happy Mid Autumn Festival
Moon cake is made with rich pastry and lotus seed paste, traditionally eaten during the mid autumn festival Wishing you and your family a happy Mid-Autumn Festival. The Mid-Autumn Festival [...]
Happy Mother’s Day!
Happy Mother's Day Mother’s day is a day to honour all the mums, step mum, grandmothers, all foster mums and the influences of mums all over the world. Will you [...]
Happy Chinese New Year 2020 – the year of the rat!
Chinese New Year 25th January 2020 The year of the rat Wishing everyone a Happy Chinese New Year. How are you celebrating Chinese New Year this year? As for my [...]
Wishing you a Happy New Year 2020
Just a short message to wish all of you a Happy New Year 2020! I hope you are enjoying your end-of-year break and getting ready to welcome the New Year. [...]
Nursing care facilities for the unwell and aged have come a long way in Penang
I am not very fond of the term ‘nursing homes’ as I had my fair share of fear of such facilities. When my dad had his leg amputated a few [...]
Happy Chinese New Year 2019
Chinese New Year 2019 5th February 209 The year of the PIG! February 5th 2019 is Chinese New Year; For Chinese, those in China and in ethnic communities around the [...]
5 common Chinese New Year rituals that we still practice
Chinese New Year is commonly known a Spring Festival. For Chinese, those in China and in ethnic communities around the world, the lunar new year is the most important and [...]
The rituals of giving and receiving red packets during Chinese New Year
Chinese New Year is just around the corner, and everyone is gearing up for the most important celebration in the Chinese culture. In Australia, Chinese New Year is not a [...]
Wishing you a wonderful New Year 2019
Just a short message to wish all of you a Happy New Year 2019! Thank you for all your support throughout the year. I hope you are enjoying your end-of-year [...]
Wishing you and family a Blessed Christmas and a Happy New Year
Christmas time is a time to re-connect with your family and friends, re-evaluate your priorities and make time for what is important in your lives. I would like to take [...]
You are not just a home cook!
I was having a conversation with a customer, telling her that I look forward to her feedback about the products she bought and possibly sharing few photos as well. I [...]
Introducing Nyonyalicious
I have been working behind the scenes for a while and now would like to take this opportunity to introduce Nyonyalicious to you! Before I do that, I will share [...]
Parenting in a new culture and the opportunity for stronger bonding and connections
Parenting in a new culture and the opportunity for stronger bonding and connections As parents, irrespective of our background or culture, our primary goal is to have great relationships with [...]
United We Shine! Parenting In A New Culture – Opportunities For Growth and Deeper Connection
Nyonyalicious store - pdf format Amazon: https://amzn.to/2M5vcvh (Kindle version) I would like to share something really exciting with you today ... Over the past few years I had been thinking of [...]
Parenting is – a partnership
Parenting is a Partnership!! I spoke about this topic previously. Yet it is such an important topic, and I would like to re-address it. Why do I say parenting is [...]
How are you celebrating Halloween this year?
I know Halloween is not as popular in Australia as other countries;however, I used to take my children and their friends for “treat or tricking” in our neighbourhood when they [...]
The one birthday ritual that I still practice in Australia
Last weekend was my daughter's birthday. So how do we celebrate birthdays in Australia? Do I still follow the ritual from my childhood? It is not possible to do everything [...]
Happy Food Happy Thoughts – Agree?
Do you really know what your life would be like in 5, 10 or 20 years? We can plan, wish and hope, and envision what it would be like, but [...]
The Power of Photo Albums
Yesterday, I decided to put all my work aside and dug out several boxes from the study cupboard. Those boxes had been in the cupboard for as long as I [...]
Wishing you and family a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you and family. Christmas time is a time to re-connect with your family and friends, re-evaluate your priorities and make time for [...]
Festivities culture and family traditions
Festive times are a time to share, give and reconnect with the family. As I was doing my weekly grocery shopping and met a few friends along the way, we [...]
Why festive seasons are great opportunities for family connections
Festive seasons are great opportunities for connections and to introduce your culture to your family It is few more weeks to Christmas, and I hear people dreading this time [...]
Benefits of involving your children in festive preparations
It is only a few more days until Christmas. Have you organised your greeting cards? What about your gifts? Your presents? Your treats? Your guests? Family gatherings and hosting people? [...]
The story behind your favourite dish
What is the story behind your favourite dish? Have you been watching Masterchef? I seldom watch any reality shows, but I quite enjoy Master Chef and have been watching it [...]
The benefits of sharing your favourite childhood dishes with your family
Have you experienced chit-chatting with friends, and somehow the conversation ended up about your favourite childhood dishes/games. And you get very excited about it? I was having lunch with a [...]
It is not that the dish is not good, but different!
What does “I don’t like the dish” really mean? Is there a difference between “I don’t like that dish” and “the dish does not taste the same”? During our many [...]
Happy Boxing Day everyone!
Happy Boxing Day everyone! I hope you had a wonderful Christmas, and spending quality time with family and friends. As for us, we had the most wonderful and relaxing Christmas [...]
The importance of emotional attunement and your child’s development
Your child needs more than love and bonding; she needs you to be attuned to her emotional and physical needs to allow her to thrive both physically and emotionally. We [...]
The challenges of Parental Influence and Setting Boundaries
I was listening to tone of the segments on the Today Show one morning, and one of the panelists was commenting whether there should be a statewide lockdown of pubs/bars [...]
Cultural Conflict – What does it look like?
Cultural Conflict is very common among migrant families whose culture is not similar with the country they migrate to. How do you overcome those cultural clashes? I was at a [...]
Parenting – The Most Rewarding, Yet the Most Challenging Job in the World
Parenting is the most rewarding job, yet it can be the most challenging job in the world, do you agree? Do you agree that parenting is the most rewarding job [...]
Bridge Generational and Cultural Gaps Through Cultural Dishes
One of many ways to bridge cultural gaps with your children is by introducing your cultural dishes to them. By introducing the cultural dishes to our children, it is [...]
Cheng Beng – The Malaysian way
Cheng Beng (qingming) is also called the All Souls Day. Recently, on the way back from Malaysia, I came across a magazine on the plane; it had an article about [...]
How to instill good eating habits in your children
Establishing good eating habits, just like everything, starts at home. It all starts with our family rituals, like eating at the dining table, no television or any electronic gadgets during [...]
Happy Chinese New Year
Today, 8th February 2016 is Chinese New Year, which is the first day in the Chinese calendar. This day is also known as the Spring Festival. For Chinese, those in [...]
Why is it important to share your culture and traditions with the next generation?
Why is it important to share your culture and traditions with the next generation? Chinese New Year is just around the corner. Some of you will be starting to [...]
Traditional Chinese Steamboat the Australian way
Even though I left home almost 30 years ago, I still practice the one of the Chinese New Year rituals – cooking a traditional Chinese steamboat. But first, what is [...]
The importance of role of grandparents in the family
Grandparents are an important part of the family structure. They represent the history, the traditions and the bond that binds family members together. I grew up with my grandparents around, [...]
Migrant Challenge – Language
One of the many challenges for migrants is Language! As discussed in my previous blog post, one of the many challenges that migrants may face is language. For most migrants, [...]
Your culture, beliefs and habits
The other day while having lunch with a friend, we were talking about habits and beliefs, and we made some comparisons about different cultures, such as: Why do some people [...]
Family recipes
Every family has one - What is your family secret recipe? DO you have family recipes that you love? The past few nights I was on the phone discussing with [...]
YOUR CULTURE IS AN AMAZING GIFT
When you bridge both cultures, you bridge the connections with your children Your culture is your heritage; it gives you the foundation of WHO you are and WHAT you stand [...]
5 unique things I do that only migrants can understand
Our backgrounds influence what we do. My husband and I are migrants from Malaysia. We settled in Australia after we finished our tertiary education. There were things that we introduced [...]
Introducing Tok Panjang
Connect and bond through sharing meals together. Life allows us to have many adventures and many new beginnings. It has been a wonderful and memorable five and a half weeks [...]
Your cultural language and you!
"Language is fundamental to cultural identity." Kakadu National Park, Warradjan Aboriginal Cultural Centre, NT I remembered waiting in a queue at our local post office, and I could not help [...]
Connections through Food and Communication
A whole week of great food and connections with relatives and friends! Over the past few days I had the opportunity to host my cousins from Melbourne. It was really [...]
Connections to our roots – Kuala Kurau
Do we really ever stop connecting? Our next stop was Kuala Kurau – Perak – my husband's hometown. Kuala Kurau is a small fisherman's town in Perak, Malaysia. This is [...]
Connections to our roots – Penang
Penang – our next port of call – My home town. We arrived at the KL airport to board our flight to Penang – the place where I spent the [...]
Connections to our roots – Malacca
Malacca Connections to our roots can occur in many places... now to Malacca! The next stop of our journey was Malacca – the third smallest Malaysian state. It is located [...]
Connections to our roots – Kuala Lumpur – Part 2
Kuala Lumpur Going back to where you grew up brings about connections. The whole duration in Kuala Lumpur was relaxing, hectic and fun. We had the chance to relax in [...]
Connections through Traditions
Today is the third day of Chinese New Year. There were so many greetings being sent through Facebook, New Year cards, e-mails and mostly via phones for those celebrating. I [...]