Lunar New Year marks the start of a new lunar cycle and as much as it is associated with good fortune and red pockets, I’ve always associated it with eating all my favourite foods. So imagine my surprise when we went to pickup Chinese food from my mom’s house only to be handed a brown paper bag and instructions to cook dinner for ourselves.

Inside, this is what I found.

Hubby quickly looked up a simple straightforward recipe for deep fried lobster using flour and cornstarch. And for the sauce, butter, garlic, ginger, green onion, paprika, honey, fish sauce, oyster sauce, and soy sauce topped on a bed of vermicelli rice noodles. What do you think of the final dish?