Monday, January 26, 2009

Happy Chinese New Year -- It's the Year of the Ox!



In a way, it's not really fair to call it "Chinese New Year," since all Asia celebrates the Lunar New Year/Spring Festival, along with just about every overseas Asian community there is. If your city has a Chinatown, it will be celebrating with firecrackers, parades, lion dances, and all the festivity it can muster -- even if the weather's cold.

This year is the Year of the Ox! Bring on the food, firecrackers, and ang pao -- especially the ang pao!

Try some of these recipes too. Fish, sweets, and dumplings are among the traditional goodies on the Chinese New Year table.

PS: Australian Asians get a double dose of fun and festivity -- Today is Australia Day too.

1 comment:

Eric said...

No firecrackers allowed in NYC on Chinese News Years, anymore. A travesty. Instead, some kind of color streamer thing is used.