#Year of the Tiger Entertainment #Chinese New Year's Eve the grandfather's favorite at the meal - family portrait
The childhood memory of Chinese New Year's Eve rice is the "family portrait", because the old man has a special love for it, and the first bowl of the Chinese New Year's Eve rice every year must be a family portrait. Because the old man always felt that the family portrait he made at home was not authentic, many times he asked me to go to the Changsha Hotel to take a family portrait.
Family Portrait is a Xiang dish, the first course at a family dinner or banquet. The ingredients are: sea cucumber, squid, meatballs, belly slices, pork liver, egg rolls, pork skin, shiitake mushrooms, winter shoots and so on.
Every time the Chinese New Year's Eve meal, the old man will also make a comment on the family portrait: this sea cucumber is still in place, this fried pig skin is almost hot, this winter shoot is not too tender, and this pork liver is a little old.
Now that I am old, I understand why the old man has a special love for the family portraits on Chinese New Year's Eve meals. The family portrait represents the reunion and harmony of the whole family, and the family reunion is a blessing.