Happy Chinese New Year!

[dumpling]

First full day of Chinese New Year! Gung hey fa choy! Did anyone celebrate? Chi fan ma?(What'd you do/eat?).

[Susan in FL]

Happy New Year! A colleague and I had a meeting over dinner at my favorite local Chinese restaurant. I had "Shanghai Duck" and a Tsingtao.

[marlena spieler]

i went to a very festive and swank party in a restaurant in london's chinatown, imperial china. to get there we walked through a doorway and then over a little bridge over a creek filled with koi fish.

i ate: lots of roast suckling pig. and adorable little dumplings shaped like fish and then steamed. a little bit of peking duck.

and watched chinese acrobats! and saw three performances of the lion dance, i love a good lion dance. drank 3 mai tais. and had to catch the train home so alas, had to give the wee-hours karaoke a miss.

anyone out there in paris? i heard that the tour d'eiffel is to be illuminated in red, the chinese colour for good luck and prosperity!

gung hay fat choy, egullies!

[Al_Dente]

I'm still having trouble remembering to write 4701 on my checks.

[Louisa Chu]

anyone out there in paris? i heard that the tour d'eiffel is to be illuminated in red, the chinese colour for good luck and prosperity!

No red.

I went to Robuchon - where their colour scheme is very red!

May go to the parade on the Champs-Elysees tomorrow/Saturday - but I'm sure they'll have firecrackers - my dog Karli's afraid of them - and I'm loathe to be apart from her.

[Rachel Perlow]

46 at China 46

The NJ eGullet crowd (along with some New Yorkers and Pennsylvanians) had a fabulous Chinese New Year party last night at China 46 restaurant in Ridgefield Park, NJ. For more details and pictures, click here.

[Louisa Chu]

anyone out there in paris? i heard that the tour d'eiffel is to be illuminated in red, the chinese colour for good luck and prosperity!

Marlena, the Tower turned red Saturday night - will stay red until the 29th. It's very dramatic - but a little spooky.

[lemoncoke]

hi everybody,

I'm new here. Just wanted to say that i had a great chinese new year dinner at home. My mom made shark's fin soup with real crabmeat, lobster, poached chicken, fish, vegetables, and lor hon chai (buddha's vegetarian dish).

it was a great meal, especially because the whole family was there!

Edited January 26, 2004 by lemoncoke (log)

[Toliver]

Welcome, lemoncoke!

Dinner sounded great.

[Ling]

I had crispy roast pork, BBQ pork, steamed fish with scallions, soy and ginger, free-range chicken, braised mushrooms, Buddha's feast, soup with pig tongue in it (to bring prosperity?) prawns, scallops, pan-fried oysters, various veggies, and rice. My mom cooked everything.

I also had a Chinese banquet-style dinner out with my family and relatives on the weekend. :) We had fried pigeon, lobster in cream sauce with noodles, sweet and sour pork, braised lamb with fermented tofu sauce, various seafood dishes (scallops, squid, etc.) free-range chicken, various mushroom dishes, and red-bean soup at the end (yuck).

Edited January 27, 2004 by Ling (log)