Woe

[oyceter]

I am so homesick right now! Not that I am not already grateful to be able to go back twice this year, but I left right as New Year celebrations were starting, and I miss the music and the noise and the red decorations everywhere and the food. It's just not the same here, and all Borders has, holiday-wise, is Valentine's Day stuff. Pah!

At least shopping at Ranch 99 today was extremely New Years-esque: hordes of people, lots of lines, cheesy music, and all the proper foods right there.

I was going to try to steam a fish, but I decided that was rather iffy and am going to make savory nian gao instead. And dumplings. And mi fen. And maybe souffle.

But really, there should be tons of noise and gambling games and firecrackers everywhere!

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[yeloson.livejournal.com]

The New Year's dinner was good.

It's interesting because my family was already so far detached that pretty much all we did was dinner- the specific foods, etc. we didn't do at all, so all of it is still a bit distant to me (like, I intellectually understand the long noodle, don't cut your hair, etc., but it never was a specific tradition for us).

[oyceter]

*nods* Yeah, I think it definitely depends on the family and such... mine does some things but not others, and other traditions (like the dumplings) grew out from celebrating away from home.