My friend Rosie celebrates Chinese New Year every year. Friends from all corners of New Jersey, NY and I think even Connecticut show up with a bottle of something something and wearing the one costume requirement: RED. It's a fete in rouge. We order Chinese, that's right order out. It's a hoot. Sweet riblets, dim sum, pot stickers, beef sticks for starters. Then a cornucopia of American Chinese food. The obligatory beef and broccoli, moo shu pork, Kung Pao chicken, garlic shrimp, General Tsos chicken, chicken fried rice, pork fried rice, vegetable rice, lo mein, chow fun. It's a soy fest! I head home overwhelmed with sulfites and drink about a gallon of water. It's a sweet way to bring in the new year ala Chinois. Only as I'm leaving do we realize not one of the guests is Asian.
Sunday, February 21, 2010
Chinese New Year, Jersey style
My friend Rosie celebrates Chinese New Year every year. Friends from all corners of New Jersey, NY and I think even Connecticut show up with a bottle of something something and wearing the one costume requirement: RED. It's a fete in rouge. We order Chinese, that's right order out. It's a hoot. Sweet riblets, dim sum, pot stickers, beef sticks for starters. Then a cornucopia of American Chinese food. The obligatory beef and broccoli, moo shu pork, Kung Pao chicken, garlic shrimp, General Tsos chicken, chicken fried rice, pork fried rice, vegetable rice, lo mein, chow fun. It's a soy fest! I head home overwhelmed with sulfites and drink about a gallon of water. It's a sweet way to bring in the new year ala Chinois. Only as I'm leaving do we realize not one of the guests is Asian.
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