She ate the whole tin of love letters. Now she has to help make more.

Caught out, Mei Lin is sent to her Nai Nai’s to make a fresh batch — coconut milk, eggs, sugar, flour, and the heavy iron mould. She stays on to help with the steamboat and to arrange the yu sheng for reunion dinner.

What your child will learn

• Following a recipe inside a story, a gentle way into reading for instruction
• Where love letters, steamboat and yu sheng sit on a Chinese New Year table
• Time with a grandmother, and the pleasure of being useful

About the series
One of five Illustrated Heritage Cookbooks, each following a child through the food of one of Singapore’s communities — Chinese New Year, Hari Raya, Deepavali, a Peranakan party and a Eurasian Christmas.