Chinese New Year Dinner with red packets and food in assorted colours.
I'm already getting invitations to Chinese New Year events. When it is?
Answer
It moves around unlike the general New year fixed for the eve of January 1st. Chinese New Year is also called Lunar New Year and celebrated all over the Far East, China, Singapore. It starts Friday 16 2018. Just time for you to sort out a few cards of emails for friends, clubs and businesses in China, Singapore, Taiwan, and Chinatowns all over the world.
This year in the Chinese zodiac is called the year of the dog.
What to expect?
In Singapore it's a wonderful time of year with orange lanterns everywhere and many people giving you two oranges. People buy them in bulk and they don't even have to be bright oranges. You just keep passing oranges on to other people and quite ropey oranges will do.
Orange lanterns will signal Chinese restaurants, hotels, businesses.
Lion Dances
You hear drumming all over the city as lion dance performers are carried from place to place in the back os trucks with banners.
I'm not to keen on the lion dance noise but I do like the spectacle. Sometimes they throw chocolates. They did that in the Tanglin Club in Singapore last year.
By the way, it's called CNY for short.
Red Packets
The unmarried youngsters are given red packets contained note money. Banks and businesses given out empty packets to customers adversiting the business name on the back. In Singapore I received a red packet from McDonalds with a coupon for money off a meal.
Useful Websites
www.singaporeair.com
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yusheng
Author
Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, author and speaker.
For more about Yu Sheng dinners see the next post.
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