Chinese New Year improvised.

On the first day of chinese new year. We had duck.

Yes duck.

You might think we went to some expensive chinese restaurant for new year's (do you know that three pao's cost about 6-7 bucks?!) but we decided to do things our way. We had our chinese new year 1st day celebration mainly in our small apartment. 

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Apartment is immensely tiny. No kidding. I think most master bedrooms are the size of our living room, kitchen, hallway and toilet combined. 

But moving on, at the morning of the first day of the new year, it is a chinese tradition to 'cham cha' for our parents which means we serve them tea. This is then followed by words of blessing by our parents. However, there were several things out of place in our tea session

1) We were all in wonderful, beautiful pyjamas.

2) I had to borrow this Beijing Olympics white T-shirt with A BIT AND ONLY A BIT of glitter on the logo from my sister because I forgot to pack my PJ's

3) Our tea was hot green-tea

4) We took pictures of the whole thing with us in PJ's

Well anyways, besides 3 or 4 oddities, we did the session and got our ang pows and blessings.

After that I think we went out for lunch with some of my parent's friend's kids along side all my sisters' friends (note plural sisterS) in a chinese restaurant about a few minutes walk from our apartment. Just to give you guys a bit of background, we live near a few chinese restaurants and Whiteleys (it's the first shopping mall in Europe or UK I can't remember) and a lot of small, humble shops. So anyways, we had good chinese food with prawn noodles, dishes and the lot.

After that, it was back to our apartment where my mum started preparing our chinese new year dinner. Our dinner was to be at home where the cooking never fails. :D 

My mum bought a few stuff from this supermarket called the "ORIENTAL uh..something." located nearby. (note: I forgot the name). 

So at about 7.00 we all sat down and ate our dinner complete with chinese music (my sis played it on her computer), yee-sang, DUCK GLORIOUS DUCK, tofu, veggies and other dishes.

And to top it all off, we all basically wore our PJ's for dinner.