Chinese New Year!

We celebrated Chinese New Year on Monday in a very non-traditionally Chinese way. I made some Trader Joe's wontons, homemade fried rice and we tried some dried, roasted edamame before finishing the meal with fortune cookies. I explained to the kids what Chinese people might actually eat (dumplings, mandarin oranges, fish etc.) and we also talked about the Chinese zodiac and how it was the year of the monkey! The kids loved the story of how the order of the animals in the Chinese zodiac came about. Pat is working with a few people from China so he brought home some candy they had brought in. I'll report back on what everyone thought of it!