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we make traditional sweets for deepavali

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my dad still maintains the tradition of whole family eating together even after grandparents passed away. He also cooks his mother's signature dish which is sweet and sour pork, a chinese dish. My mum cooks mee sua for my birthday and insists me to eat an egg for good luck

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my family (including all my extended family from mom and dad's side) make it a point to take a family photo atleast once a year. sadly, we couldn't do it for past 2 years due to covid. maybe this year, we can :)

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we've one day a week set aside for dinner so that everyone who lived apart gather.

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Our family favorite song playlist include Malay, Mandarin, English and Cantonese songs. My daughter can sing all these different languages of songs since she was 4yo.

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My mom would always cook noodles for us on our birthdays as it is a tradition in her hometown.

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My mom is malay & dad is chinese so every time we go for raya visitings at my mom’s side, we will always talk in Mandarin to signal one another to leave because we are tired 🤣

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Aruna
As a tradition, every year in the month of January ( pongal festival) , all our family members travel to my grandparents village to celebrate festival.

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Weekend dinners and birthday meals are a must in my family!

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My parents and sister share the same birthday date (22 MM YY)

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Our family meets up with our extended family during festivals and celebrations (mother's day, father's day) to celebrate and eat together.

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My mother's mother which is my grandmother is Chinese but she was adopted to a Muslim family in the Japanese occupation so it is nice to see how she used to cooked those traditional dishes like popiah,fried wanton etc.

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My mother's mother which is my grandmother is Chinese but she was adopted to a Muslim family in the Japanese occupation so it is nice to see how she used to cooked those traditional dishes like popiah,fried wanton etc.

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Arwa Onn.

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my family and i will watch the same series on netflix/disney+ so we can talk and bond over it together

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My family have open communication to share about things that we find annoying or funny things that happen at home

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My fam speaks a 3rd language which is a south indian language called 'telugu'. I can understand but can't speak it tho

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We pray together as a family quite frequently

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during special occasions like cny, birthday, lantern festival, my family will gather to have a meal together.

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When we were young, we will go out for lunch every Sunday as a family and we always bring a shared water bottle and 4 cups

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My grandmother would cook stirfry leek with beancurd for CNY eve dinner every year (even if we are eating out), and we'll only eat this dish during the 14 days of CNY.

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We celebrate birthdays with a cake and my aunt will make 'pulut kuning' which is a traditional Malay dish made during birthdays

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My mom always says “I don’t expect much from you in your academic achievements, but know that I’m always there to support you whatever path you choose.” And “You don’t have to be the best, but always know where your roots are.”

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Whole family members to "gamble"
during 1st day of CNY. Min $10 bet :)

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My family has a tradition, which is to cook curry chicken and fried bee hoon on the first day of Chinese New Year.

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CNY - parent make yam cake and 5 spices roll and give, share.

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In a big family, it’s hard to get everyone meet and catch up with each other due to our own commitment. Thus, we always make it a point to gather as a family on every birthday celebrations. Just a simple potluck meal and even simple games.

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My family treasures birthday celebrations and it is a tradition for everyone to be present and celebrate by going out for dinner etc etc

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Game night every Friday night - card games or charades or pictionary

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We have dinner with our 3-generational extended family every Sunday ( grandparents, niece and nephews) at grandparents’ place.

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My mother is a Thai so whenever June holiday start, we will fly to Thailand for a month. Every year go until I’m sick of it.

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We travel as a family at least once a year.
(There are 13 of us in the family)

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I don't think there's any special about what my family upholds. But we do all have our daily habits every family have. Be it like how we eat during dinner, in the living room or dining table etc...

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my parents will talk in Cantonese language but I only can listen

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before my grandmother passed, it was a tradition that our whole extended family will have meals at our place for dinner every friday night.