Happy Lunar New Year! The gluttonous New Year’s Eve spread..

Tadaaa!

Clams, tofu, watercress, shrimp, spinach, oysters, beef slices, cellophane noodles, enoki, button mushrooms, squid, and fish and Vietnamese meatballs. Mmm, hot pot is perfect for such freezing cold evenings! Plus, since I’d been eating nothing but ramen with egg, Cheez-its, Goldfish crackers, yogurt, oatmeal and vitamin supplements all last week, this was finally REAL FOOD! Extra yum! I’m going to try and eat better this week.

So I was emailing with my Asian friend who asked me when New Years was so we could go to the Asian m

Updated 1-27-09: arket to pick up mooncakes. I told her she was a failure in life for mixing up Mid-Autumn Festival when you eat mooncakes and the Lunar New Year when you don’t eat mooncakes. A few days later, I retold the story:

“You remember my friend R? The other day she emailed me asking if we can go pick up mooncakes at the Asian market for the New Year. Wrong holiday!! Asian FAIL!”

“Hahaha!!” “Hahaha!”

“… uh, honestly, I was thinking the same thing about the mooncakes for New Years too. Hahaha.”

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