Celebrating the Chinese New Year! We were really lucky and spent the evening with Chinese friends, Honglin and Jin, here in Wollongong, having a real Chinese experience of their New Year.
This year, the Chinese New Year is today, the 25th of January, and it is the Year of the Rat. Each Chinese year is named after one of twelve animals, and each of these animals is lucky in different ways. We cover a good range of these twelve animals in our family: Nana and Grandad are both in the Year of the Dog; Summer and David are both Year of the Pig; John is Ox; Emily is Snake; Ann-Marie is Monkey; Mia is Tiger; James is Horse; and Daniel is the Year of the Rooster. But please don’t start acting like your animals!
Before we had dinner, Honglin showed us how to make Chinese dumplings. These were small circles of dough, filled with minced beef, ginger and chilli, and making them was quite an art. I think I need to practise this more when I get home! But they were delicious to eat! And our dinner was a table full of the most lovely food: lemon chicken; garlic prawns on skewers; the dumplings; rice; fresh salmon; stir-fried beef… Mmmm!
Nana Down Under 
The food looks great 👍
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