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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