We are having the Lunar New Year party at my besties house on Saturday. It’s always the best time, I can’t wait!
That’s exciting! I hope you all enjoy. What are the plans :)
Merry Year of the Snake!
I have a girlfriend now after two years single, so that’s pretty chill. 🤷
Well happy Chinese new year to you two :)
Thanks!
Damn, Chinese must party really hard. I wished everyone happy new year and went to bed minutes after midnight. Here you are keeping the party alive nearly a month later!
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Happy new year!
Hahaha! It’s just me. I’m the last one left in China celebrating. Going for the record. /s
I’m still here too.
I spent it in the countryside with family and just got home to watch the new years show.
Gonna go buy some Nian Gao and mooncake!
Sounds good! In the south we eat Tangyuan.
With my wife and extended family in her hometown in rural Henan. It’s bloody cold and the air quality is absolutely miserable, but everyone is having a good time.
Sounds fun! Same situation here. Windows stay open in the home to let air in right? Haha. It was a super blue sky today further west but it has been gray for the last two weeks
Yeah same blue sky here, we only arrived yesterday so I can’t tell what is was before. Windows had been open for 2 years, so we had a nice cover of assorted carcinogens all through the house. Always nice to visit… ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ
What’s the best dish you had?
Some smoked beef chunks, the in-laws are beef wholesalers, their game is spot on.
Yours?
That sounds awesome! Lucky you for having awesome cooks in the family.
I don’t eat meat anymore but the best meat that I know from when I did was probably huiguorou or larou. The first is like a pan fried thick pork belly. The second is winter curred sausage. I just had a pan fried tofu dish and jiucai. Both yummy. Grandma gave me her pickled garlic which I really liked.
Took the time to interview her about the 60s. It was interesting!
Oh yeah I know both of those dishes, they are excellent as well! Pickled garlic is also amazing, especially on a Friday night if you don’t plan to meet anyone all weekend 😂
How challenging was it to bring across that you don’t eat meat? I have a feeling that would be quite alienating with my in-laws, their whole world revolves around meat.
That’s fun they make it too :) Is your Henan food spicy or what? Never been!
I think pretty much every family member in China doesn’t really get it and frequently tells me I can in fact eat meat. They said, my PILs have cooked plenty of plantbased meals for me. Eating this way was a personal choice but I am also Buddhist. I also get a lot of comments telling me that monastics in China eat meat, which isn’t necessarily true, so why don’t I. Then I also get the silly questions saying well what about shrimp? Or fish? Or pork? lol more silly than pressured.
Any baijiu for you? My uncle made 50kg of homemade stuff. It was good too :)
Nah I actually stopped drinking years ago, luckily they respect that. I’ll have some mild 杨梅酒 in summer every once in a while, that’s pretty refreshing. But other than that I pretty much abstain.
Good for you! I also drink less as it really is less enjoyable. I don’t think I’ve had that. I’ll have to look :) Yeah I’m the same, like the taste or the feeling in specific instances. Some uncles here have upwards of 500ml of baijiu. That’s just horrible
What?
Lunar new year was yesterday (Jan 29th).
looking for work. This whole cycle is actually the last for me and in less than a decade I will hit my birth animal with my birth element.
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