HAPPY CHINESE NEW YEAR!!!!!!
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We are coming into our new year here in Taiwan and your's truly has been invited to come over to a fellow travelers house for the Chinese New Years Eve Dinner. This sounds like a promising travelers experience where I will have the rare opportunity of being apart of a traditional CNY(Chinese New Years) Feast. The food is definitly going to be interesting. As someone who doesn't eat pork, I believe it will be a good idea to fatten up before I go as pork is a staple of the Taiwanese diet.
Chinese New Years Traditional Foods (sorry no turkey and gravy here)
HOT POT- A kind of throw it all in and make a great soup kind of dish.
RICE CAKES
CHICKEN
VEGGITABLES
LUCKY CANDY
DUMPLINGS
FISH
There is also the giving of the RED ENVELOPE. We give gifts but the chinese tradition is big on MONEY so, here they give LUCKY RED ENVELOPES filled with cash. up to 5000 NT almost 200.00 to each member in the family. WOW! and it's not optional. It's pretty much a given. ( no pun intended but, LOL)
So, as I said, HAPPY CHINESE NEW YEAR!!! AND START LOOKING FOR THOSE REGULAR POST.
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