Chinese people now mostly still celebrates new born baby's first full moon. They usually presents friends and relatives with traditional pulut rice or nasi kunyit, hard boiled eggs where the shell are dyed in red, and angku kuih as well. Some people even "modernized" the event by replacing these dishes with food vouchers, roast chicken, cakes, biscuits etc. However, the most popular choices are still the traditional dishes.
Most people nowadays do not know that the angku kuih represents the gender of the new born baby. Traditionally, there are 3 types of angku. The first is the one that we usually saw as offerings for paying, that shaped like a red turtle ("ang" is red while "ku" turtle in hokkien). To know whether the baby is a girl, there will be some peach-shaped angku accompanying the normal angku, while for baby boy, it is a round-shaped angku. Though there are in different shapes stuffing of all these angku is the same :P. Angku is nice to eat as it is. My favourite is to keep the angku in fridge for one day, then pan-fried it.
My mother-in-law says that there's another way to determine the gender of the new born baby, that is whether the rice is normal nasi pulut or nasi kunyit, but can't really remember which is which as nowadays lots of ppl like to mix these up based on preferences
Tuesday 24 July 2007
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