Today's the first day of the lunar new year (or Chinese New Year for folks who think all y'all look alike)... an estimated 14 billion "Happy New Year" text messages are expected to go out over the next seven days in China.
As for Eli and me, we've been eating a lot. My mom cooked up a crazy feast for the new year's eve dinner, always a splurge by tradition: shark fin soup, abalone and sea cucumber over gai lan, a ridiculously good braised pork dish, steamed whole fish, orange pork chops, boiled chicken, and a little Hennessy. My parents stayed up until 1:30 watching the 5-hour New Year's extravaganza on CCTV, but I can only take so much Beijing opera.
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