In Pursuit of Chinese New Year In Dallas

Happy New Years everyone! The Year of the Dog. Yummy. I mean, um, great! Today Shoko and I tried to get our Chinese on by searching for the day's celebrations.

Our first stop was downtown at an event at the Trammel Crow of Asian Art. We were kind of hungry and expecting stalls of great food. We were wrong. We did, however, get fortune cookies and some really terrific live music. The fortune cookies didn't quite cut it though (even though the fortunes were very good) so we headed up to Richardson's Chinatown.

We got there just in time to see a big lion (fueled by two human units) and a smaller one going from one restaurant to the other and doing the famous lion dance. Chinatown (well.. actually Richardson's Chinatown is more or less a relatively small outdoors strip mall) was very busy but despite that were able to secure seating at my favorite place for dumplings, Jeng Chi (see pics from a year ago here). We had the yummy dumplings and one of Shoko's favorite dishes there - pork with a root that I had never heard of before - but it was very good.

So there you go - celebrate the year of the dog! Arf Arf.