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girl (lilo_stitch)
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Username: lilo_stitch
Post Number: 69
Registered: 4-2005
| | Posted on Monday, May 16, 2005 - 4:40 pm: | 
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hi EL,
listen them talk slow will understand wat they are lor .. me speak not that perfect la ..... but believe keep try on day will speak as well as him hee..e.. sometime we oso try to speak w each other. as i find a know another lanagues not harm.
i heard that hainanese need roast pig n e big golden ball for wedding
as u 100% hainanese any sercet recipes to cook hainanese chicken rice :p |
Misty (hilsywong)
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Username: hilsywong
Post Number: 12
Registered: 3-2005
| | Posted on Monday, May 16, 2005 - 7:20 pm: |
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Wow girl,
Bet your in-laws love you to bits for making the effort to learn the dialect. My husband is hokkien and even though I can understand it, I find speaking it very difficult. Maybe you will inherit all your MIL's secret recipes :P.. I've noticed from a couple of your postings in the other threads that you're overseas ah? Me too leh. Planning my wedding from UK. My FH in US. Hehehe... we're in the same boat.
Hi Pebs,
Wah u marrying within the clan  Not common nowadays liao.... I'm first in my family to marry out of the clan..hehehe. I'm also complete lost re traditional customs, but my wedding is still ages away, so i presumed my gran will basically tell me what to do nearer to the date.
EL... u an I 'tong xiang' leh... hehehe. I thought species like me extinct liao until I come across this thread |
girl (lilo_stitch)
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Username: lilo_stitch
Post Number: 70
Registered: 4-2005
| | Posted on Monday, May 16, 2005 - 8:59 pm: |
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hi misty,
My MIL hardly cook so no secret recipes. cool ... which part of uk are you? me is staying in manchester. do u have any msn or yahoo maybe we can chat more as we are e same boat  . when is ur AD? |
Misty (hilsywong)
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Username: hilsywong
Post Number: 14
Registered: 3-2005
| | Posted on Tuesday, May 17, 2005 - 9:07 am: |
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girl
I'm in scotland. I usually use msn rather than yahoo. PM you my contact |
blursotong (apostles)
Junior Member
Username: apostles
Post Number: 269
Registered: 12-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, June 02, 2005 - 9:48 am: |
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Hi ladies, I am also a pure hainanese. It is very interesting to see hainanese pple comglomerate together in here. I stayed with my grandparents since young and my entire family converse in Hainanese when we gather. At times my parents speak to me in Hainanese too. I am so glad that I do speak the dialect. |
Pebs (pebsb)
Junior Member
Username: pebsb
Post Number: 294
Registered: 4-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, June 02, 2005 - 1:49 pm: |
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girl - i think ur right leh. i heard my auntie said Hainanese girl needs roast pig n e big golden ball for wedding so troublesome, i tot can forget abt all these stuff. i think the golden ball is impossible to find in spore liao?
Do we need things like cakes, orange squuash? anything else ah? eg leave by what time *headache*
Misty - i didnt expect to marry within, but i guess such is fate. if u hear any tradn from yr granny, share with us ok? my grandparents no longer around, and parents (both side) quite lost when it comes to custom/tradition hah |
blursotong (apostles)
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Username: apostles
Post Number: 270
Registered: 12-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, June 02, 2005 - 3:38 pm: |
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Hi Pebs, I am trying to get the ball but not sure if i can still find it.
My mum refuses to have the roast pig from the guy side too. says it is too much trouble and must have someone who is very fortunate (meaning have grandchildre, filial children and have their partners still alive) to cut the pig into pieces in a manner.
Mum says need cakes for guo da li. and refreshments in the morning too. Sweet things (tian tian mi mi) before leave the house. Other than that nothing much for that day thou. |
girl (lilo_stitch)
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Username: lilo_stitch
Post Number: 85
Registered: 4-2005
| | Posted on Thursday, June 02, 2005 - 5:55 pm: |
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hi pebs,
hee..ehee... me not hainanese, kapo kapo here nia as my hubby is then hainanese ... those tradtion stuff is i heard from my mum .
when do u need those stuff, i have my friend to noe where to get e golden ball, only can tell u when i return back to s'pore during end jun as i dun have their contact w me, is it too late? when urs AD? |
Pebs (pebsb)
Junior Member
Username: pebsb
Post Number: 295
Registered: 4-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, June 02, 2005 - 10:28 pm: |
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hi girl,
not late at all, my wedding is Feb 06 heh.
Pls email to pebsb2@yahoo.com.sg
Thanks! |
EL (tanel)
Junior Member
Username: tanel
Post Number: 105
Registered: 4-2005
| | Posted on Wednesday, June 08, 2005 - 12:41 am: |
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hello hainam nangs (must let go a few hainanese in the hainanese thread ma hehhee).
I 'lost' this thread; i forgot where this thread was!!!! That's why i MIA for awhile.
I was just discussing with my FH and mummy abt the golden ball. I tot the golden ball is such a rare and interesting tradition so much so that i insist on getting one for my wedding! But i read thru the thread; i tot i read somewhere that no shops in spore sell this anymore.
Girl- i also want the contact!! me also not too late; my wedding next yr too hehehe |
girl (lilo_stitch)
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Username: lilo_stitch
Post Number: 88
Registered: 4-2005
| | Posted on Wednesday, June 08, 2005 - 1:37 am: |
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no problem, hope my friend mobile did not change . |
blursotong (apostles)
Junior Member
Username: apostles
Post Number: 281
Registered: 12-2004
| | Posted on Wednesday, June 08, 2005 - 1:44 pm: |
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Hi gal, can i pls have the contact of the golden ball pls. Thanks! :-) |
kRaZy (krazy)
Junior Member
Username: krazy
Post Number: 227
Registered: 12-2004
| | Posted on Wednesday, June 08, 2005 - 2:47 pm: |
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we went looking for the old man who made these balls when we were preparing for our wedding. apparently, he is retired. we spoke to him and he said he does not have a place to make the balls... need a large wok and area...
hi girl, when you come back, can u also give me the contact so that i can pass it to my sis who is planning to get married.
thanks! |
blursotong (apostles)
Junior Member
Username: apostles
Post Number: 283
Registered: 12-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, June 09, 2005 - 9:07 am: |
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HI krazy, yep i heard that the old man has retired. Hmm.. wonder if he can do it at our house and we provide the necessary equipment. heehhhe...:-) |
girl (lilo_stitch)
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Username: lilo_stitch
Post Number: 96
Registered: 4-2005
| | Posted on Thursday, June 30, 2005 - 12:51 am: |
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hi gals,
no good news so far abt e making of golden ball as my friend told me e one they noe had closed down. hope can give u gals good news soon as my in law is askin around for me  |
girl (lilo_stitch)
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Username: lilo_stitch
Post Number: 97
Registered: 4-2005
| | Posted on Thursday, June 30, 2005 - 9:17 pm: |
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hi gals, manage to get who make golden ball but dun have full address. for those who stay east maybe know whereabout. e shop name call 'Kim Moh' located either at laguna park or laguna view (near marine parade). it a 2-3 storey unit shop.
hope as above infor help u gals. |
blursotong (apostles)
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Username: apostles
Post Number: 328
Registered: 12-2004
| | Posted on Friday, July 01, 2005 - 2:17 pm: |
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Hi girl...
thank you... Do you have the exact address pls?
I have also sourced another shop that does the balls. It is called the Pine Gardens at Ang Mo Kio. They got the balls from another person. It is around $18/ball i think. |
girl (lilo_stitch)
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Username: lilo_stitch
Post Number: 99
Registered: 4-2005
| | Posted on Sunday, July 03, 2005 - 10:34 pm: |
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hi blursotong,
i dun have e actually add, do u noe marine parade area? laguna park or laguna view is quite near each other. will try to ask for more detail |
blursotong (apostles)
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Username: apostles
Post Number: 331
Registered: 12-2004
| | Posted on Monday, July 04, 2005 - 2:34 pm: |
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Hi girl,
Thanks in advance.
:-) |
girl (lilo_stitch)
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Username: lilo_stitch
Post Number: 100
Registered: 4-2005
| | Posted on Monday, July 04, 2005 - 11:28 pm: |
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hi blursotong, there's one some where around purivs street near bras basah but this one dunno e name. which make hanainese pastry |
blursotong (apostles)
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Username: apostles
Post Number: 334
Registered: 12-2004
| | Posted on Tuesday, July 05, 2005 - 10:59 am: |
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yep I am aware of the purvis street side but i do not think they do the balls. |
girl (lilo_stitch)
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Username: lilo_stitch
Post Number: 106
Registered: 4-2005
| | Posted on Tuesday, July 05, 2005 - 12:03 pm: |
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actually my friend got it from there few yrs back |
hapi gal (hapi_gal)
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Username: hapi_gal
Post Number: 13
Registered: 6-2005
| | Posted on Tuesday, July 05, 2005 - 5:33 pm: |
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hi ladies,
my FH is oso Hainanese. my MIL said hv to give me a chicken...alive one. Gosh! I said no nee coz i can't imagine the feathers flying aro the hse...heehee.
Very curious abt the golden ball, is it edible? How come my MIL never mention abt it? mayb i'm a cantonese, tat's y no ball for me |
blursotong (apostles)
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Username: apostles
Post Number: 339
Registered: 12-2004
| | Posted on Wednesday, July 06, 2005 - 10:32 am: |
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HI girl...
I see. Maybe i will check it out there as well to compare the price. Thanks ya.
Hi hapi gal, it is not edible. It is like the dimsum sesame ball but in a big version with no filling. Live chicken sounds interesting. Maybe that is how your grandma did it when she got married then? |
Pebs (pebsb)
Junior Member
Username: pebsb
Post Number: 348
Registered: 4-2004
| | Posted on Wednesday, July 06, 2005 - 2:13 pm: |
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U mean the ball is not edible?  ( I was so looking forward to eating it.
I called pine garden. They charge abt $10 per ball, and U usu buy 1 pair for GDL. It comes from Msia. Size abt palm size. Apparently can last for abt 1 wk (so still can see during the wedding day since GDL abt 1 wk b4 AD).
Last time I watched on tv, the purvis st uncle demo the making. he make v big one, like big beach ball size. |
kRaZy (krazy)
Junior Member
Username: krazy
Post Number: 243
Registered: 12-2004
| | Posted on Wednesday, July 06, 2005 - 4:19 pm: |
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can!! the ball can eat one... the ball will stay inflated for about 2-3 days and then will lose the air. |
girl (lilo_stitch)
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Username: lilo_stitch
Post Number: 108
Registered: 4-2005
| | Posted on Wednesday, July 06, 2005 - 11:13 pm: |
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e one i saw oso very big one ... abt e size of balloon |
Ryes (ryes)
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Username: ryes
Post Number: 1609
Registered: 12-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, July 07, 2005 - 9:34 am: |
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hi everyone,
I saw on tvmobile on this show where the uncle made this very big ball, is that the golden ball? I forgot the chinese name of it already..
Where can we still purchase this other than Pine garden? Hubby tot of presenting to my parents... |
Pebs (pebsb)
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Username: pebsb
Post Number: 352
Registered: 4-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, July 07, 2005 - 11:36 am: |
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Ya i also want BIG BIG ball. Anyone checked out the girl's contact at laguna?
Ryes - the uncle is the purvis st uncle who has since retired |
blursotong (apostles)
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Username: apostles
Post Number: 348
Registered: 12-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, July 07, 2005 - 11:47 am: |
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Hi Pebs, ya the balls very small from Pine Gardens. By the end of it, the texture of the balls would be so tough that you do not feel like eating it.
Hi ladies, my sis's had the big balls 3 yrs back by the old uncle from purvis st. So fortunate that she got it then.
I got no idea about eh laguna one. I am a west person not sure at all about the east side. Any east siders can advise better. |
hapi gal (hapi_gal)
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Username: hapi_gal
Post Number: 14
Registered: 6-2005
| | Posted on Thursday, July 07, 2005 - 1:39 pm: |
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Hi blursotong,
I'm so sotong, tot the ball can b eaten....hee.
I've don't hv d chance to ask my hainanese bf y is it necessary to hv the ball coz he's out of town. Can anybody tell me pls?  |
Ryes (ryes)
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Username: ryes
Post Number: 1614
Registered: 12-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, July 07, 2005 - 9:50 pm: |
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Hey pebs,
yes lor, hb also say the uncle retired leh...so now who else do? |
blursotong (apostles)
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Username: apostles
Post Number: 353
Registered: 12-2004
| | Posted on Friday, July 08, 2005 - 11:37 am: |
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Hi hapi gal,
It can be eaten (that is if you want to eat it after being on display for many days and the texture of the ball is going to be so tough). It depends if you mother-in-law would like you to put it in your wedding room as a blessing item for the wedding day. As for me, my mum did not insist it. Instead it is me. hehehe...
Ryes, call up Pine Garden, they do it as well. |
hapi gal (hapi_gal)
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Username: hapi_gal
Post Number: 18
Registered: 6-2005
| | Posted on Saturday, July 09, 2005 - 4:01 pm: |
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Hi Blursotong,
thks, i've got better knowledge of the ball now. i suppose it signifies "yuan yuan man man"?
pretty sure i'm not going to eat it after displaying for so many days.... my teeth is not that sharp |
blursotong (apostles)
Junior Member
Username: apostles
Post Number: 359
Registered: 12-2004
| | Posted on Tuesday, July 12, 2005 - 11:29 am: |
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Hi hapi gal...
I am not sure of the significance thou. guess it is meant that way...
:-) |
ariesta (ariesta)
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Username: ariesta
Post Number: 39
Registered: 5-2005
| | Posted on Thursday, July 21, 2005 - 6:41 pm: |
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Hi, i'm also a hainan nang. Haizzz... Can't really speak the dialect. Coz my family dun really converse in it. *My mom's hokkien* Hubby is pure hokkien. Everytime converse wif MIL in hokkien, she always laugh at me. Coz my hokkien is peppered wif Hainanese, and vice verse.
Btw, wat golden ball r u guys toking abt? Any other tings to take note????? |
blursotong (apostles)
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Username: apostles
Post Number: 398
Registered: 12-2004
| | Posted on Monday, August 01, 2005 - 9:38 am: |
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Hi ariesta. It is just a big fried dough ball that we are talking about it in Hainanese wedding.
I know we need roasted pig too but my mum is not going to request for it as we need a very blessed lady (i.e. with husband and children and grandchildren) to cut the pig into pieces. there is a method to cutting too. she finds it too troublesome so we are not having it. |
ariesta (ariesta)
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Username: ariesta
Post Number: 84
Registered: 5-2005
| | Posted on Tuesday, August 09, 2005 - 1:01 am: |
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thanx~~~ maybe will check wif mi dad... the golden ball sounds soo interesting... |
blursotong (apostles)
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Username: apostles
Post Number: 426
Registered: 12-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, August 11, 2005 - 2:05 pm: |
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yep maybe your dad had it during his wedding! :-) |
BenDi (ayoon)
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Username: ayoon
Post Number: 10
Registered: 8-2005
| | Posted on Friday, September 02, 2005 - 2:01 am: |
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For all info, the big golden ball is edible. I am pure Hainanese too. Both parents, both side grannies from Hai Kou |
girl (lilo_stitch)
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Username: lilo_stitch
Post Number: 219
Registered: 4-2005
| | Posted on Friday, September 02, 2005 - 2:26 am: |
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hi bendi, do u know where to find golden ball? |
Stacy (stacy)
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Username: stacy
Post Number: 54
Registered: 8-2003
| | Posted on Friday, September 02, 2005 - 1:28 pm: |
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HI Bendi,
Same same, grandparents also fm hai kou |
blursotong (apostles)
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Username: apostles
Post Number: 491
Registered: 12-2004
| | Posted on Friday, September 02, 2005 - 3:35 pm: |
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Hi BenDi, my grandparents and father is from hai kou, 'shui hou' village. Which village are your grandparents from? |
verie (stupeed)
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Username: stupeed
Post Number: 222
Registered: 7-2005
| | Posted on Saturday, September 03, 2005 - 11:23 pm: |
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wow you guys are so cool to find the prosperity ball (that's the real name)!!! My mum is lookin for it for my wedding. Im hokkien but my mom's side is hainanese and this tradition is so rare and interesting that we want to incorporate it for some festivities! So pine garden makes it? |
blursotong (apostles)
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Username: apostles
Post Number: 496
Registered: 12-2004
| | Posted on Monday, September 05, 2005 - 9:21 am: |
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Hi verie, yes Pine Gardens makes it but it is the size of a palm and each costs $10 per ball. |
mushloom (mushloom)
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Username: mushloom
Post Number: 365
Registered: 3-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, October 06, 2005 - 10:10 am: |
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hi hi all hainanese brides... other than the golden ball, do we need any other things on GDL n AD? |
alhana (alhana)
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Username: alhana
Post Number: 2022
Registered: 8-2003
| | Posted on Friday, October 07, 2005 - 8:30 am: |
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Hi mushloom
I didn't even have the golden ball. Our was very simple..didn't even have the roast pig or anything. For GDL, only bargained abt the bride price (ang bao), si dian jin and cakes to give out to relatives. |
bluebells (bluebells)
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Username: bluebells
Post Number: 28
Registered: 9-2005
| | Posted on Friday, October 07, 2005 - 2:56 pm: |
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Mushloom,
GDL also needs a basin (supposedly for the DIL to serve water for washing face to the MIL, but I got one that's good enough to wash vegetables), and the teapot and cups (for tea ceremony), pillows / bolsters, a pair of bedside lights (tian ding), a pair of towels. All these need to be given by the bride's mum hor. As for the roast pig, if don't want, can use red packets to represent.
BTW, I am a hainanese bride that got married years back. |
blursotong (apostles)
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Username: apostles
Post Number: 619
Registered: 12-2004
| | Posted on Friday, October 07, 2005 - 4:32 pm: |
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Hi alhana and mushloom, i also do not have roast pig. Going to be something simple too.
Hi bluebells, the woman side need to buy so many things one ah.. din't know that... did u get the balls. |
blursotong (apostles)
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Username: apostles
Post Number: 620
Registered: 12-2004
| | Posted on Friday, October 07, 2005 - 4:39 pm: |
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Hi alhana and mushloom, i also do not have roast pig. Going to be something simple too.
Hi bluebells, the woman side need to buy so many things one ah.. din't know that... did u get the balls. |
BenDi (ayoon)
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Username: ayoon
Post Number: 105
Registered: 8-2005
| | Posted on Friday, October 07, 2005 - 7:58 pm: |
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I wanna have roast pig, golden ball, and shi tian jing...i very greedy... |
koxxic (koxxic)
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Username: koxxic
Post Number: 31
Registered: 8-2005
| | Posted on Saturday, October 08, 2005 - 12:43 am: |
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hello gals, i'm also a hainanese though not pure.
father is hainanese and mum is hokkien. my FW is also half hainanese with a hainan father and a teochew mum.
really glad to find this thread. seems like there are quite a few traditional stuff required still for customary. Ball thingy? where to find?
as for live chicken, how to find with all the bird flu thingy now right? haha.
anyway, i can't speak the language also. really sad cos i grew up with my grandma(mum side), we speak hokkien all along and worst still, i dun even ustand hainanese. |
mushloom (mushloom)
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Username: mushloom
Post Number: 370
Registered: 3-2004
| | Posted on Saturday, October 08, 2005 - 9:47 pm: |
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btw the gdl lady told me that the golden ball is meant for the AD and not GDL. she mentioned that the ball will follow us to the male side, after the tea ceremony then to our new place and place near the bed. suppose to let it deflate on its own.
so those who had the golden ball during ur wedding, can you tell me when is the golden ball supposed to be present, and wat to do with the ball?
tink in the one of the posting in this thread mentioned that pine garden do make these kind of balls. |
koxxic (koxxic)
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Username: koxxic
Post Number: 33
Registered: 8-2005
| | Posted on Saturday, October 08, 2005 - 10:18 pm: |
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OK..after hearing so many traditional custom for hainanese, can we come up with a summary as to what is needed to be done on AD, what things are required, what are the steps to follow? |
kRaZy (krazy)
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Username: krazy
Post Number: 255
Registered: 12-2004
| | Posted on Saturday, October 08, 2005 - 11:32 pm: |
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mushloom:
the golden ball is supposed to be placed at the altar one.
my mum also mentioned need fresh pin1 lang2. |
Pebs (pebsb)
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Username: pebsb
Post Number: 450
Registered: 4-2004
| | Posted on Sunday, October 09, 2005 - 12:38 am: |
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mushloom - i heard a different version of the golden ball. Golden ball is given in a pair by groom to bride family during GDL (3 days b4 AD). During AD, the golden balls are broken up and shared to be eaten by all.
So which version is correct?
Yes, pine garden sell those balls. Think its abt $12 each (1 small handful size). |
mushloom (mushloom)
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Username: mushloom
Post Number: 371
Registered: 3-2004
| | Posted on Sunday, October 09, 2005 - 10:58 am: |
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alamak then who is right? the boss told me tat the golden ball cannot be broken coz it symbolises yuan yuan man man leh. who got elders at home can double check? tink me will try to sound my father out on this |
kRaZy (krazy)
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Username: krazy
Post Number: 256
Registered: 12-2004
| | Posted on Sunday, October 09, 2005 - 2:38 pm: |
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to my knowledge,
the golden balls are not to be broken.. must let it deflate itself. but you can eat it after it is deflated. |
Pebs (pebsb)
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Username: pebsb
Post Number: 452
Registered: 4-2004
| | Posted on Sunday, October 09, 2005 - 3:31 pm: |
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i use wrong word, not 'broken' but deflate (as what kRazy said). Think after 3 days or 1 week (depend how far advance U GDL), the ball will deflat by itself. After that, can tear it and share among all to eat? |
bluebells (bluebells)
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Username: bluebells
Post Number: 29
Registered: 9-2005
| | Posted on Monday, October 10, 2005 - 9:52 am: |
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Blur Sotong,
yes, I got the golden balls, and Mushloom was right. I had it on the AD, and it stay there until deflated. And also, my mum told me the bedside lamp was to stay alight for 3 whole days; so in the end I bought bedside lamps from Ikea, kept the box and just use the box to cover the lamps when I want to sleep loh. come to think about it, quite funny. But the lamp signifies tian(1) ding(1), so better listen loh.
One more important thing : if your younger brother / nephew who is going to open the door and let your hubby out of the car, please make sure that he is not born in the year of tiger. Was told that if the person opening the car door is born in the year of tiger, the bride will have a hard time conceiving in future, and may even remain childless. Not sure true or not, but ning(4) ke(3) xin(4) qi(2) you(1). Happened to one relative anyway, and in the end, the relative in question adopted a child. |
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