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Chinese New Year Parade

January 26th, 2004 · 9 Comments


Dining Room at Jing Fong, Chinatown, Manhattan


Eleanor & Jeannette, Jing Fong, Chinatown, Manhattan


Jing Fong, Chinatown, Manhattan


Tien gives dessert the thumbs up, Jing Fong, Chinatown, Manhattan

Here’s a funny movie clip of Tien and Jeannette at dim sum:
- Caw! Caw! (.mov, 788k)


After dim sum, walking to the parade route, Chinatown, Manhattan


With the temperature outside at 8 degrees, we opted for Vietnamese coffee instead of ice cream!


Subway, Chinatown, Manhattan


Finally we got to the parade route where we met up with Jen and Jake. Everyone there was setting off confetti bombs.


Chinatown, Manhattan


Senator Charles Schumer began the parade.


Chinese New Year Parade, Chinatown, Manhattan


Drummer in a band, Chinatown, Manhattan


Chinese New Year Parade, Chinatown, Manhattan


Tien takes a photo of the monkey king.


Yvan trying to keep warm.


On a sidestreet, Tien points out a Chinese character that says “Mao”.


As we start to make our way to the subway to go home, no one seems to care if we walk right beside the parade. This is where we get the best photographs.


Beauty Queens?


Yellow Dragon, Chinese New Year Parade, Chinatown, Manhattan


Yellow Dragon, Chinese New Year Parade, Chinatown, Manhattan


Little boy dressed as a dragon.


Confetti on the stairs.


A store we passed on the way to the subway.


Chinatown, Manhattan


Going home on the F Train.

After dim sum at Jing Fong, Eleanor, Jeannette, Yvan, Tien, Shannan, Jessica and I met up with Jen and Jake on the parade route to watch the Chinese New Year festivities. What a great way to celebrate my chinese-ness, or lack there of! My goal of the day was to see some dragon dancers, which I’d never seen before. Luckily, there were several of them. Unluckily, the temperature outside was about eight degrees. After an hour standing outside I could no longer feel my extremities and my camera was whacked out so we left.

More:
- 2004/4702 Chinese New Year Parade, by Tien
- Chinese New Year, by Eleanor
- Jessica’s Ofoto Album
- Chinatown Parade, by Jake
- Chinatown Parade Photo Gallery, by Jake
- Chinese New Year Parade, by Jen for Gothamist

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Get in my Belly!

January 23rd, 2004 · 6 Comments

Chinese New Year

Chinese New Year

Chinese New Year

Chinese New Year

Chinese New Year

Chinese New Year
Vivian & Yvan Trying to Order, Oriental Garden, Chinatown, Manhattan

A trip to the aquarium? No! These were just a few of the lovely creatures waiting in the tanks at Oriental Garden to become our dinner. Yvan, Jeannette, Sarah, Tien, Michael, Vivian, Yim and I were out celebrating the Chinese New Year yesterday. $198 may seem like a lot of money for dinner but not when you’re getting almost 10 courses of seafood for 8 people. We had:

- Full-bodied, freshly steamed shrimp (gnarly too look at, but very tasty)
- Seafood soup (didn’t care for this one too much – Tien ate mine!)
- Sauteed clams
- Mixed seafood platter (really good scallops & conch on here)
- A whole fish in a brown sauce (very tender and yummy)
- Lobster (delish but hard to eat with chop sticks!)
- Sauteed mussels
- Sauteed oysters (may be the first time I ate an oyster – I didn’t really like it)
- Seafood fried rice (big chunks of scallops, very tasty)
- Lo Mein (I was told it’s tradition to order this for longevity)
- Sauteed Pea Pods (I think that’s what it was – really sweet and tender)
- Oranges for dessert, of course

After adding Tsing Tao and 3 bottles of sake, the bill wasn’t all that reasonable any more, but still the dinner was so delicious and so much fun it was well worth the price.

Note: In a restaurant like this, with a menu where the prices are the only thing not in Chinese, it helps to have someone there who speaks Chinese. After 20 minutes of back & forth with the waiters, Yim finally arrived and within seconds took over the situation and ordered our drinks and food. Thank God for Yim or we’d still be there bickering with the waiter!

More Information:
- Chinese New Year, Take II, by Tien

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To Everyone in China:

February 1st, 2003 · 1 Comment

Happy New Year!

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Happy Chinese New Year!

February 12th, 2002 · Comments Off

Happy Chinese New Year!

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