Thursday, February 3, 2011

Xin Nian Kuai Le!

That would be Happy New Year in Mandarin!  We aren't the best, but we do try to get some Chinese culture into our family once in a while.  We want all of our kids to grow up being proud that we are an American-Chinese family.  Today is officially Chinese New Year, the year of the rabbit, but our festivities are just getting started.  We have a few more events yet to come.


Tonight we prepared jiaozi, Chinese dumplings.  These are normally meat and chopped vegetables wrapped in a thin piece of dough.  You boil them (or fry) and then can dip them in soy sauce or other prepared sauce.  I actually grew up eating them in Japan, too.  They are delicious and the kids all enjoy making them and eating them.  We also fixed fried rice and everyone had their fill.











Sorry to scare you with all of these....we normally practice much better manners at the table!

Here are the only "normal" ones of the bunch:


3 comments:

Alicia said...

Xin Nian Kuai Le to all of you!

LOL, love the chopstick pictures. :)

Anonymous said...

Thanks for the morning laughter. I LOVE the funny guys. :)

Marge

Amy said...

ya, we celebrated chinese new year here with gusto, too:-)

looks like tons of fun!
you guys are great!