On New Year's day we went to dim sum with Phil's family, his aunt and his grandma. I guess since New Year's day was on Sunday my last post should have been Chinese New Year Eve...oh well...
Here is Phil's grandma, his aunt and Phil's mom.
While we were eating, a dragon boating group doing lion dance for the new year actually came into the restaurant (drums and all), which was no small feat considering you have to go up 2 flights of stairs. There were 2 lions and they danced in between tables collecting lucky red envelopes and letting little kids pet the lion heads. We didn't give any luck money, so I guess no good luck for us this year (-__-)
The rest of the performers were crowded by the door playing the drum.
Me and Phil for our first picture of the new year. You can see the 2 lion heads in the background.
Peter and Winnie.
Dim sum food comes and goes pretty quickly so I didn't get a lot of pictures of the food, but I did grab a few.
One of my favorite dishes was the powdered donuts, because really who doesn't like powdered donuts?
Phil's dad ordered 2 orders of the coconut jelly (left) because he was worried they would run out. We also experimented with a new mochi type dessert wrapped in banana leaves, which none of us had before. It was filled with a sweet peanut filling. It was delicious! ^__^
Chinese New Year this year happened to fall on the same day as Valentine's Day, but this was as much celebrating as we did. Although Phil did buy me a very sweet Valentine's Day card. Who says all the romance is gone after marriage ^__~
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