Today is the shortest day/longest night of the year — the winter solstice, aka Dongzhi (the arrival of winter) to Chinese. It’s an important festival so last night my family got together for dinner. Unlike the Mid-Autumn Festival (<--link), we ate out to make things easier for mom. Of course, mom's cooking is much better but we all had a relaxing good time!
Link: wiki page on Chinese Winter Solstice Festival
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ok it is not even 8am here, but looking at this picture brings my appetite to its max! I love asian food, I would not mind having this for lunch today :))
December 22nd, 2006, at 6:39 pm #waouhh. tu nous invites ;o) cela donne envie. (je note, ce soir pour manger direction un restaurant chinois)
December 22nd, 2006, at 7:04 pm #waouhh. you invite us ;O) that gives desire. (I note, this evening to eat direction a Chinese restaurant)
Umm uum good! Happy Holidays to you Lisi and Everyone!
December 22nd, 2006, at 8:26 pm #This looks like a delightful feast, beautifully photographed.
December 22nd, 2006, at 9:01 pm #yum! yum! nice “catch” on those delicious looking prawns! eat it while fresh & hot!
December 22nd, 2006, at 11:09 pm #Lisi, looks marvelous!! Did you eat any tangyuan? Very nice that you took your mother out, even though the food isn’t as good as hers. Moms need a holiday too.
December 22nd, 2006, at 11:43 pm #Love the photo, the food looks so tempting.
December 23rd, 2006, at 1:17 am #I had forgotten it was Winter solstice. Thanks for the reminder … Your photo reminds me of a past experience: I had a business contract in Hawaii a while several years ago. During those trips one of my favorite experiences was eating Chinese food with a group. We would set at a table with a lazy Susan in the middle such that we could spin the food around and share from everyone’s order. Sadly we don’t do this in my home town. I will have to make a recommendation at a few restaurants.
December 23rd, 2006, at 1:26 am #fresh prawns in my face!! also, the food is so “jing”..have you eaten the tong yuen? is the sign of getting a year older ..heh
December 23rd, 2006, at 1:39 am #Miam…delicious holidays to you too, Lisi!
December 23rd, 2006, at 2:00 am #Hi…no I didn’t have any tangyuen, I never really like the sticky texture ;-)…eating out is good because no one has to worry about doing the dishes!! And yes Kris, we eat very “light” mostly but of course there are many heavy dishes especially for festivals…
Thanks everyone for stopping by, HKDP is on auto pilot while I’m on a mini break…will be back on Boxing Day
December 23rd, 2006, at 11:33 am #MERRY CHRISTMAS!
Lisi, can you describe all the dishes on the table? I see celery in one dish and the fried prawns. What are the others??
December 24th, 2006, at 1:17 am #Yum Yum!!! Next time around I’d love to come back as a Chinese woman cooking, cooking, cooking all the time!
December 24th, 2006, at 4:58 am #