# Happy Lunar New Year of the Dog **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 28, 2006, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-lunar-new-year-of-the-dog/341985 "2006-01-28T14:07:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![China\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/779978/32.png) [@China\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/China_Guy)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2006, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-lunar-new-year-of-the-dog/341985/1 "2006-01-28T14:07:58Z")
Wishing all of you a most prosperous Year of the Dog! It is 22:00 on Chinese New Year’s eve. The city of Shanghai is already enveloped in a fog of gunpowder from all the fireworks that have been set off. I can hear explosions in the distance pretty much continually for the past couple of hours. It’s already woken up one of the Chinettes. The banquet at the in-laws with about 15 assorted relatives was reasonably simple - about 15 dishes. Meh, to those of you in other threads saying the chinese food in china sucks. Scallops steamed with garlic and black bean sauce, jellyfish, pork knuckle, sweet and sour sauce on fried pomfret fish, fresh water eel in soy sauce, dried sea eel dipped in vinegar, thousand year old eggs, doufu, any number of stir fried veggie dishes, braised pork in beer sauce, and many more that have found a good home in my tummy At midnight, the city will erupt for at least 20 minutes of deafening fireworks. My favorite are the rockets that shoot up about 20 stories, then explode with a nice big colorful cloud. These come 12 to a box, and you just light the fuse and run. You can (and do) buy strings of firecrackers that are thousands of firecrackers long. There is no regulation either - anyone can buy any amount of fireworks if you’ve got the cash. When it gets close to midnight, you can’t drive. People put those boxes of rockets right out in the street :eek: anyway, it’s a epicurean pyromanics dream ---
**Author:** ![hawthorne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@hawthorne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hawthorne)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2006, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-lunar-new-year-of-the-dog/341985/2 "2006-01-28T15:41:16Z")
Chuc mung nam moi to all our lunar-new-year-inclined dopers. Is the Singaporean new year dish of [prosperity salad](http://www.globalgourmet.com/food/special/1999/asia/fish.html) making any inroads into the mainland, **China Guy**? ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2006, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-lunar-new-year-of-the-dog/341985/3 "2006-01-28T18:22:28Z")
Dà biànhuà! Happy New Year! ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2006, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-lunar-new-year-of-the-dog/341985/4 "2006-01-28T19:02:59Z")
It’s the year of the Dog already? Damn! I keep writing the year of the Rooster on all my checks! 😃 May you all have a happy and prosperous new year. ---
**Author:** ![Anne\_Neville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Anne\_Neville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anne_Neville)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2006, 7:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-lunar-new-year-of-the-dog/341985/5 "2006-01-29T07:52:35Z")
Gung Hay Fat Choy! Chinese New Year falls on my birthday this year. ---
**Author:** ![Regardie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Regardie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Regardie)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2006, 8:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-lunar-new-year-of-the-dog/341985/6 "2006-01-29T08:00:54Z")
> [@Khadaji](#): > > It’s the year of the Dog already? Damn! I keep writing the year of the Rooster on all my checks! 😃 > > . That was excellent! woof! ---
**Author:** ![FlyingRamenMonster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ce7236/32.png) [@FlyingRamenMonster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FlyingRamenMonster)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2006, 8:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-lunar-new-year-of-the-dog/341985/7 "2006-01-29T08:11:43Z")
Happy New Year man. I thought it was pretty cool how the two days fell on Friday and Saturday this year, so those of us in Australia could have a proper celebration too. No fireworks, but Australia day was on the 26th. Spent the night drinking Solo, watching Chunjie Wanhui broadcast from China (gotta love being in the same timezone) and playing team battle on Tekken 4. Good times 😃 ---
**Author:** ![baronsabato](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed655f/32.png) [@baronsabato](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/baronsabato)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2006, 10:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-lunar-new-year-of-the-dog/341985/8 "2006-01-29T10:26:53Z")
Happy New Year! Unfortunately, I have miderms on Tuesday, and job training tomorrow, so I won’t have any time to celebrate until next year. ☹ Still, gong xi fa cai to all those who will be celebrating!