Nga-Ku

Chinese New Year(CNY) is round the corner and it's time again for the Chinese families to get busy with spring cleaning, preparation, buying new clothings and gifts/cookies for the actual day.Today is the first day of the last month in the Chinese Lunar Calendar, so to be exact, it would be a month before Chinese new year.

The morning markets are filled with CNY cookies, decorations, plants and waxed meat (I think that's the English term for it, we called it "lap cheung" and "lap ngap" in cantonese"). And of course not forgetting the pirated CD sellers playing the CNY music.

I love the nga-ku chips and the best thing is that my aunt make very good ones. So I get my supplies from her in a discounted price. Do you know that you could also grow these and make them as CNY plants. I do it every year and it will just grow leaves. I have seen those on television that if you grow them really well (maybe in a cooler climate), it will actually flower. But mine will always be leaves only. So again I have prepared my Nga-Ku plant for CNY.