Tonight is Chinese New Year reunion dinner. On Chinese New Year’s Eve, all your family gathers together for a meal - if you’re married, you generally have to at least make an appearance at each of your respective parents’ houses. If you have grown kids, you usually have a dinner with them before moving on to your parents’ house(s).
Since I moved to Seattle, I have no family here, so I don’t have anywhere to go. I’ve taken up the “tradition” of organising a reunion dinner at a restaurant for my friends - or as I call them my Seattle family.
This year, however, my mother decided to visit for Chinese New Year, and she’s cooking reunion dinner for me and my friends.
On the menu tonight:
- Yee sang
- San choy pau
- Fried wonton
- Braised pork ribs
- Garlic prawns
- Steamed fish
- Lam mee
- Lap cheong
- Hung chau cha
I’ll try and take photos if I remember and if the hordes aren’t too ravenous, so cross your fingers.
