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Tuesday, April 16, 2013

Qing Bing on Sunday 14 April 2013

April is Qing Bing or Grave Sweeping Month and due to a trip to Sydney for a wedding, our Qing Bing is on the last Sunday of festival

 wow!! so much goodies for praying...whole chickens, siu yook, pomfrets, fruits, mushrooms, tauhu, peanuts, tea and wine, char siew pow, and ling yong pow, plus ang koo kueh
 Tai Koo is the only one who knows what goes where, and the food was all prepared by Emelda, who ha been doing it for years now
 Tai Koo is so particular and meticulous, there will be no one else like her next.....
 Finally, everything was duly labelled and packed to go
 No jams and no hassles, we arrived at Semenyih in a breeze
 Beng praying at the altar overlooking scenic hills
 paper cars and effigies for offering to the departed
 clothes in all fashion too

 now we are carrying all the stuff to the respective graves
 walking among the tombs is much easier now with orderly graves and marbled walkways
 easy to find too, as it was bright albeit cloudy
 then we started to put the offerings at the correct places and tombs
 just follow Tai Koo's labelling..without her we are lost
 see the array of food?
 chickens are "pak cham kai" (boiled white chicken) with head, feet and wings intact

 everybody goes about their respective assigned tasks
 Papa's job is to arrange the joss paper on the tombs





 then the praying with josssticks started






 Papa doesn't want the josspapers to fly off all over the place so he stuffs them into holes
 and stuffs them in between the leaves

 see the paper squeezed into the hole in the ground?
 now a big trench is provided for burning joss papers



 then we were treated to ice cream by Tai Koo! Papa looks incredulous and unbelieving!


 Here you go! Chocolate and yam flavour

 we are so happy savouring our lollies
 Hmmmmmmm!!!!


 Beng enjoying his ice cream

 Back home we had brunch of the food
such a lot of food!!! also for our lunch, dinner and tea and elevenses

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