Golden shrimp plant
Princess flower
Yong Tau Foo literally means stuffed tofu. Ground meat or fish paste is stuffed into a variety of tofu products, vegetables and mushrooms and typically served in a clear broth with noodles or rice. Yong Tau Foo is a food of Chinese (Hakka) origin.
During the Chinese New Year, mandarin oranges are considered as a traditional symbol of abundance and good fortune. Princess flower
FROM THE TRAVEL ARCHIVES
Atonium, Brussels 2019
MALAYSIAN FOOD
Yong Tau Fu
Bitter melon, shitake mushroom, chilie, eggplant, okra, snakebean are commonly used for stuffing.
Sculptures in a theme park
Mandarin oranges
Cookies and mandarin oranges are exchanged as gifts with family and friends throughout the 15 days of the Chinese Lunar Year, kinda like gifting during Christmas.
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Happy Chinese Lunar Year kak veronica ^^, hopefully 2022 full of blessing and joy. I like the symbol mandafin oranye. It looks cute and like the real orange ^^
ReplyDeleteHappy New year! Your photos are full of colour and beauty. The food looks get, too. And I love the sculpture. Have a great week, hugs, Valerie
ReplyDeleteSeeing all the food photos made me hungry! Thanks for sharing the beauty all around you, Veronica.
ReplyDeleteBlessings!
Stunning images of the theme park and its sculptures! I would have never thought mandarin oranges is considered a symbol of good luck in East Asia.
ReplyDeleteTha Malaysian food seems delicious, Veronica! ... and you're so lucky to have many veggies there in your country :-)
Have a nice week, Veronica!
The sculptures in the park looks amazing! I am drooling over the foods here.
ReplyDeleteHello, Veronica
ReplyDeleteThe food images are great Mandarin oranges are tasty. They are a nice gift. The sculptures are wonderful, beautiful critters. I love the flowers and plants.
Thank you for sharing your post. Take care, enjoy your day and the new week!
The Princess Flower and the Yellow Scrimp flower is lovely! For many years ago I saw a pink Scrimp flower for sale in a flowershop. It was beautiful too.
ReplyDeleteHave a wonderful Monday, Veronica!
Loved the photos Happy New Year!
ReplyDeleteSo beautiful, but I always get stuck on all your delicious food. Yummy.
ReplyDeleteHave a fabulous day and week, Veronica. ♥
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DeleteI've never seen a golden shrimp plant. It's beautiful. And all that food looks to die for. All good wishes for the new year!
ReplyDeleteHola Verónica, bonitas fotografías, me encantan las esculturas.
ReplyDeleteFeliz semana. UN ABRAZO
Happy Chinese New Year
ReplyDeleteBeautiful photos, Veronica. The sculpture is absolutely beautiful. Enjoy your week.
ReplyDeleteHappy Chinese Lunar Year I loved seeing your photos and not only did I learn about places I didn't know but Food and even a word I can add to our Homeschool Spelling List. Thank you for taking the time to share a part of your world.
ReplyDeleteHappy New Year! Your photos are always too beautiful.
ReplyDeleteThe sculptures are amazing.
The Thai Mango salad looks delicious.
Brussels. I went many times there for work. It's a beautiful city.
Thanks for sharing the photos.
Beautiful food, especially the Thai Mango, yum yum.
ReplyDeleteI LOVE seeing all of the plants and flowers you post. And those AMAZING Sculptures in this post are AWESOME!
ReplyDeleteThat photo from Atonium, Brussels is really interesting. I am so glad you had the chance to visit a few years ago. Belgium is still on my someday list!
ReplyDeleteAnd what a fab galimaufry it is lovely flowers and food very colourful :-)
ReplyDeleteHave a galimaufrytastic week 👍
What a fun collage of food and flowers!
ReplyDeleteHappy Lunar New Year, Veronica!
I love your pictures. The food looks great and the flowers are so pretty.
ReplyDeleteWonderful photos! That mango salad looks terrific and those sculptures are amazing!
ReplyDeleteYour photos are always so fantastic! All the food looks so delicious and I love the sculptures in the park. Happy New Year!
ReplyDeleteDearest Victoria,
ReplyDeleteHah, you have been very close to my birth area as Brussels is only about two hours driving, south of the Province of Limburg in The Netherlands.
Oh the food, just ate my supper as otherwise you would have made me really long for it; rindu sekali terus!
Love the Mandarin orange's meaning.
We eat them daily and love them; dark chocolate too...
Hugs,
Mariette
Me dio ganas de tofu. lindas flores, y Hermoso parque temático. No sabía lo de las mandarinas. Te mando un beso
ReplyDeleteThose are great oranges. And the food looked good, too.
ReplyDeleteI love your various photographs. Especially the Atomonium (hope I got it right). Years ago, I was sent on a mission to Amarillo, Texas to testify at a Texas Railroad Commission hearing on something really boring. More interesting to me was my hobby geocaching and so I found a cache at a memorial to the Helium atom, which looks similar, to your photo, but I didn't tag it correctly, so somewhere in the 80,000 photos of my archive is a badly tagged photo I tried to find.
ReplyDeleteOh yes, I didn't testify, when I got back to Tulsa my boss asked how it went, and I said that I got there too late. True confessions.
Happy New Year Veronica and family! That Yong Tau Foo looks really tasty! We just started having a little tofu in a salad from one of the fast food restaurants here and wanted to branch out on cooking it. I don't think we are ready for something like this, but it sure looks very good!
ReplyDeleteI like those sculpture pictures! So cool looking!
betty
I'm captivated by the sculpture and its waves.. I like how it appears throughout your mix of photos.
ReplyDeleteGreat photos! Have a nice day! :)
ReplyDeleteOf course, your collection of photos showing food is always wonderful, Veronica Lee, bit the golden shrimp flower was my favorite this time. Those theme park sculptures did look intimidating and perhaps children would think so too.
ReplyDeleteHappy new year:) have a lovely day...
ReplyDeleteIt's always fun to go through your collage of pictures and find interesting things. I have very fond memories of spending Lunar New Year in Vietnam a few years ago. It was great fun to be there for the celebrations,
ReplyDeleteThe sculptures in the Theme Park are wonderful. A great mix with wildlife animals!
ReplyDeleteGreetings
Kirsi
It's such a pleasure to travel and see different places! I love the flower photos and neat mosaics! Enjoy your week!
ReplyDeleteThat food looks very delicious to me, we love this. Happy New Year to you.
ReplyDeleteA very interesting mosaic. The sculptures look amazing. I'm glad I recognize a beautiful plant, the golden shrimp. I had one, but I lost it because of some bugs! And sometimes I add mango in the salad. And it's awesome.
ReplyDeleteHappy WW, Veronica! A fabulous February!
The food looks good, and the flowers are lovely.
ReplyDeleteI always enjoy your photos :) They are such an interesting window into your part of the world. Thank you and Happy February!
ReplyDeleteVeronica - MANY years ago, I had a shrimp plant. I loved it and was fascinated with the bracts. And the Mango Thai Salad looks delicious. Thank you for linking to Mosaic Monday!
ReplyDeleteGorgeous captures!
ReplyDeleteGong Xi Fa Cai, darling!
ReplyDeleteHave a super blessed year of the Golden Tiger.
Love the lip smacking spread out there, and the sculptures and flowers are the cherry on the cake.
Hope yiou are having a great time celebrating dear Vero. Wishing you and yours abundance, love, joy and peace always.
Happiness hugs.
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Very nice pictures! :)
ReplyDeleteBeautiful photos ❤
ReplyDeleteLove the oranges and the shrimp plants. The atom in Belgium is pretty cool. Mom never saw that when she was in Brussels.
ReplyDeleteI saw golden shrimp plant for the first time. That's impressive. Thanks for sharing.
ReplyDeleteThanks for another fun trip around the world with your amazing photos! Those sculptures are amazing and the flowers are gorgeous but the food looks quite tasty and appetizing as well!
ReplyDeleteWonderful assortment of photos!
ReplyDeleteI have never seen a Shrimp plant before
Isn't that golden shrimp plant gorgeous! Wow!!
ReplyDeleteHappy Wednesday!
Elza Reads
Happy Lunar New Year, Veronica. What a delicious assortment of dishes you've shown us today. Yum!
ReplyDeleteWhen I lived in South America I had a Princess plan - seeing your beautiful flowers reminded me of that time.
Your collections always make me wish I could visit your country. As always to eat some of the wonderful dishes you show, but also today, the flowers. Thanks!!!
ReplyDeleteI have been trying to understand the Golden Shrimp plant. I came to the conclusion that it is so called because its shape is a little like a shrimp? Unless it’s a culinary herb to impart a fishy flavour? Those snake beans look as though I might enjoy them, a little like our runner beans. I’m a great lover of oranges and although they don’t grow here in England this is a good time of year to see lots of Spanish Valencia oranges in the shops.
ReplyDeleteNice photos
ReplyDeleteI'm loving the sculpture, very unusual but I think I'm going to try and make that mango salad, looks scrumptious.
ReplyDeleteHa! I thought, Brussels?! And I was right. Never saw it for real, must be impressive. And the sculptures are beautiful, too and ohhh, all the yummy food!
ReplyDeleteAnd the oranges. Fun to see.
We have so many Chinese students here, yet this is never celebreated also not before COVID.
Only was able to join in Perth, it was wonderful.
My customer greeted me on Tuesday via PC wishing all who celebrate a Happy New Year.
So, a happy new year to you!
Happy Lunar New Year. :)
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Thanks for sharing such great pictures. I always like to see what you'll share each time.
ReplyDeleteThe food all looks so good and I didn't know about the importance of mandarins in the new year! Happy lunar new year :)
ReplyDeleteHope that you had a fun weekend :) We had a good one, last one of the summer school holidays!
Away From The Blue
Enjoying the sunshine and bright colors in your photos. Great captures.
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You present very beautiful plants and delicious food, dear Veronica! This section of the theme park seems to be about Africa, right? I like the sculptures a lot!
ReplyDeleteAll the best
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PS: I've never been to Brussels, although it's closer for me than for you ;-)
Thanks so much for sharing the link to that Thai mango salad. Oh, my stars, that looks so good. Would probably have to add some chicken for my meat-loving husband and then we could call it dinner.
ReplyDeleteThe sculptures at the theme park are so fun. I thought they were carved from trees? Is that correct? I guess not after looking again.
Always interesting to see food that I don't recognize or eat. Everything looks delicious. Fun to learn about the oranges for New Years.
I never seen Golden shrimp plant..,... beautiful
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ReplyDeleteWhen seen further back the Golden Shrimp Plant looks like a field of corn.
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