The gang is at my mom's oldest sister's home for 初二, day 2 of the year of the Dog. There is glutinous rice (the rare Teochew sweet kind), super-sinful bak kua (the high-salt-high-fat pork belly fat kind), and Chinese sweet meats (like pieces of dried ginger, coconut strips, water chestnuts, lotus, encased in rock sugar).
Check out the old old school ceramic water dispenser at the back right, a Cheavin's with a "Saludor" Filter. It was bought by my late maternal grandfather from a pharmacy decades ago. You can see this 1800s antique at the Singapore History Museum at Riverside Point.
Between a very noisy lunch eaten in the huge kitchen and tucking into the 糖水 (filled with gingko nuts, lotus seeds and longans), we chase after Isaac to keep him from destroying the antiques and from eating too much bak kua.
Faith is busy climbing the cast iron window grills to look at the trees, plants and fish tanks in the garden.
I think I will have another bowl of 糖水.
