Happy Chinese New Year!

Gung Hay Fat Choy! Happy Year of the Rabbit!

CNY snuck up pretty quickly this year, and we celebrated with (what else) food! The girls have spent the past 2 weekends trying to make ice cream mochi, and then for dinner we went over to the Wong's to make homemade dumplings. This was the first time we rolled our own skins too. Fancy!

This was a batch of Nutella Mochi

You have to work quickly to wrap the filling.

Some of the finished products. It was ok.

Starting to roll dumpling dough.

Hard to make the skins uniformly round.

Kathy's mom made home made nian go. Nora loooooved it.

Cutie pies!

Fun fact about the shirt that Evie's wearing in the pic is that it is vintage! I actually "stole" it from my mom but turns out, she got it from her older sister who hand made it over 60 years ago! It's a fairly thick shirt and has a layer of down in it too. When Evie and Nora heard about it, they were so impressed that it's really vintage and now want to make sure to preserve it and pass it on to their daughters.

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