This is the last Friday of Chinese New Year, so I thought it would be fitting to send it off with good cheer through a Foodie Friday post! On February 9, the day before Chinese New Year, we had a feast of food to celebrate!
Noodles with Pork and Carrots
Shrimp with Long Beans
Orange Chicken
Jiaozi (gyoza) Dumplings
and Wontons
Tofu and Bok Choy
Beef with Broccoli
Our theme was more general Asian as opposed to traditional Chinese or Filipino food for the New Year. Unfortunately, I had just gotten the rest of my braces on my top-teeth, so I couldn’t enjoy all of the food—the poor shrimp and bok choy was too hard to eat! But, I was able to have the noodles, and I made sure not to bite them! Luckily, it was Saturday, so my weekday vegetarian diet wasn’t in effect (although, I’d consider Chinese New Year a break day for eating vegetarian), meaning I was able to enjoy the jiaozi and wontons, as well as the noodles and orange chicken!
I hope you’ve all had a great Chinese New Year so far… let’s make the most of our last three days! Gong xi fa cai!
February 23, 2013 at 8:53 am
All looks so yummy…I’m glad I didn’t read this until Saturday, or I might’ve had to break my ‘no meat Friday’ Lent obligations.
March 2, 2013 at 9:59 pm
Wish I could get the recope for orange chicken. Do you have it?
March 2, 2013 at 11:10 pm
Actually, we bought the orange chicken from Trader Joe’s, haha!
We just put the chicken in the oven, then mixed it with the included sauce.