Therefore, HAPPIEST NEW YEAR!
Minus the champagne, plus the Hennessey. No to midnight kisses, but yes to oranges and chocolates! I love the non-romantic, non-$150 entrance fee to a trendy night club, sequence-less dress association to Chinese New Year. Maybe it's just not a trend yet. Give it a few more years and we'll be paying for our complimentary midnight toast.
If there is one thing I love more than being Chinese on Chinese New Year, it is being Chinese on Chinese New Year eating Chinese New Year related food!
Obviously. The correlation is a dead given.
Every year, the festivities start off the same way. The floor is swept. The floor is mopped. Furniture is wiped down. We are wiped. All clothes and bed sheets are washed. Fruits and vegetables are washed. Basically, the theme here is Elimination of All 2008 Germs. Even hair must be washed before midnight, a point my mom stresses highly. You know not even the toughest shampoo can get rid of 2008 hair germs. While cleaning is important, eating is top priority. The Chinese are easy to please in a way. As long as there is food on the table, and enough of it, they are happy. Let me correct that. I'm happy.
We definitely had enough of it today. From A to Z, come on down folks, cause we have it all!
The feast of 8. 8 dishes that consist of lobster, greens, mushrooms & abalone, rice noodles, pork & eggs, snap peas with shrimp, chicken and soup. *Does not need to be consumed in that order*
If you're an Ox like me, this is our year. For desserts. And right... That ole' fortune whatever you call it.
All the best in health, prosperity, and those other Chinese sayings. Gung hay fat choi!
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