Disappointed with CNY SOPs, but a smaller celebration will have to do
Kenneth Tan and his parents Nellie Toh and Ranny Tan, celebrating Chinese New Year at a restaurant in 2019. Photo: Kenneth Tan For Kuala Lumpur-based designer Kenneth Tan, 39, it will be a very quiet reunion dinner this Chinese New Year. “I will most likely cook something at home - maybe steamboat for one!” says Tan, who lives alone. Tan, like many other Malaysians won’t be spending the reunion dinner with his family. Under the CNY standard operating procedures (SOP) announced on Thursday, senior minister Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob said that “reunion dinners and prayers are only a...