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Happy Lunar New Year 🐉🧧🧨

Kung Hei Fat Choi 🐲

The year of the Dragon is here 🥰

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It’s that time of year again (give or take a week at the end of January) when my family and I have our own little celebration of Lunar New Year. I’ll be honest, this mostly means we find new ways each year to eat East Asian inspired food, and the year of the dragon has been no exception.

I can just about hear millions of Chinese people screaming in horror at the sight of the plate above. I know it’s far from traditional fare, but it is our way of marking the event (our plan for sparklers is off as the ran is currently hefting down…).

I’ve been looking forward to our Lunar New Year dinner most of this week, and it leaves me wondering why I enjoy this day so much more than the Gregorian New Year which is much more part of my cultural history. On December 31st, I am more than happy to sit at home watching TV, eating rubbish food and counting down the minutes until midnight when I can badly sing Auld Lang Syne and go to bed. Come Lunar New Year, and I spend hours thinking up new ways to mark the occasion. This year I had ordered biscuits from my favourite biscuit company, before discovering the pineapple pastries above were on sale again. Someone with restraint would have passed on the pastries. I am not that someone.

There is a danger I am at risk of orientalism and fascination with the novelty of the a holiday I have only marked for the last couple of years. Hopefully we manage to tread the fine line between appreciation and appropriation, especially as I love marking the day and would not want to give it up.

If you are celebrating Lunar New Year, and even if you are not, may I wish you a peaceful, healthy and prosperous year of the Dragon 🧧🐲🎆.

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