Pineapple Tarts

I saw this pineapple tarts recipe and decided to bake some. I did not follow exactly to the recipe, did not add iced water and only added two egg yolks cause the pastry looked rather wet.



I rolled the ready pineapple fillings from Phoon Huat (a local baking suppplier) into balls.

Greased a heart shaped mould (You can used any other moulds or cutter, be creative), filled half the mould with pineapple fillings and the remaining with pastry or the other way round. Remember to egg wash the pineapple fillings to give it a shining look.

Pineapple tarts can be used for Chinese New Year (a favourite) and also Valentine's Day because of its heart shape. Enjoy

This Kebabs Seller only appear in Chinatown to sell his kebabs to the pre Chinese New Year's crowd. At $4 for a chicken kebabs it is very cheap.

This is a cute turkish ice cream seller. Besides selling his ice cream he would play tricks on his customer. He will use a long ladle to scoop the ice cream and put into the cone and pretend to hand them to his customers and before the customers can grab the cone, he would pull the ice cream cone back to him. It is quite funny how he tricked his customers and he did it very professionally.

Fruits for Chinese New Year

These fruits are favourite during Chinese New Year.

Mini Pumpkins are known as lucky melons and they are a favourite because of its gold colour. Having golden pumpkins in the house means having gold in the house.

Tangerines are favourite too because they symbolised wealth. The chinese character "Da Ji Da Li" symbolised good luck.

Pomelo symbolised good fortune and prosperity.

Chinese New Year 2008 Goodies

Stall selling Dried Persimmon.

Dried candies-a favourite during Chinese New Year. It will be placed in a candy box/tray with 8 different compartments. Eight is an auspicious number for Chinese, it meant sudden fortune.

Different candies have different meanings. Candied melons symbolised growth and good health, lotus seeds symbolised lots of offspring.

Melon seeds-it is a symbol of joy and sincerity.

Pistachios from USA.

Assorted sweets also a must during Chinese New Year. It symbolised a sweet year.