Comments | wongkk: Happy lunar New Year! Gung hei fat choi!

wongkk

Happy lunar New Year! Gung hei fat choi!

Feb 09, 2013 20:06

To all of you celebrating the lunar New Year, I wish you a happy and enjoyable holiday!

The Chinese zodiac animals change with the sun (not the moon) so the year of the snake is already a few days old and will hopefully be a healthy and prosperous year for us all. I took the photo which I've used for this greeting in London's Chinatown last ( Read more... )

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brotherskeeper1 February 9 2013, 22:33:52 UTC

It is going to be the 'year of the dog' when the neighbor's dog returns to do his business :/

wongkk February 9 2013, 23:06:09 UTC

Every dog has his day, they say. Is that what you mean?! Or more like, "His hour has come"?

brotherskeeper1 February 10 2013, 02:48:17 UTC

"His hour has come".

ditch_gospel February 9 2013, 22:48:41 UTC

Happy New Year, KK! Are there any new year treats or foods that you can enjoy? (Looking at your cake post made me hungry!)

wongkk February 9 2013, 23:59:50 UTC

Thank you, kindly scholar! The tradition is to have a sweetie dish for visitors (e.g. you used to see this on shop counters in HK - usually for children but not exclusively so). The fancy sort of dish is raised on a pedestal, has a lid and is divided into five petals with a central round portion. This isn't my "chuen hap" (全盒 name for that type of divided candy dish) but is very similar:

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ditch_gospel February 11 2013, 01:05:32 UTC

Oh, my, that looks like a lovely and tasty tray of sweets. Very colourful too. I bet it would go well with a nice cup of green tea. Roasting melon seeds, now there's an interesting idea. I will try to remember that for the next time I have a melon.

wongkk February 11 2013, 12:00:34 UTC

I must admit that I also put some less healthy sweeties in my tray: e.g. chocolate peanuts, jelly beans, turkish delight - that sort of thing. But also other fruits such as figs and dates and candied ginger which probably weren't special in the old days in China but are not so common in the West.

I toast quite a few seeds - e.g. sunflower, sesame, pumpkin (pumpkin is just a sort of melon really) - and add them to salad as they taste much nicer after being under a hot grill. Same with flaked almonds - much better toasted.

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wongkk February 10 2013, 09:32:16 UTC

China does not own the moon! It is a universal holiday. Please join in! Perhaps you can enjoy celebrating with other animals, e.g. guinea pigs :=)