Happy New Food! (um, I mean New Year...)

Okay, New Year's, at least the Western Dec. 31st - Jan 1st version, is very low key here, so not much to report. There is a government holiday on Jan 1, but it seems like people use it more as an excuse to watch late-night TV the night before and then go out and do some shopping. (The big festivities, of course, are for the Chinese lunar New Year, which is at the beginning of February this year.)

We started out 2010 with a little language lesson from Wei Wei, an amazing and very helpful student of Jane's, as the kids watched a video in the next room. (note: yep, we're letting the DVD do the babysitting every now and then - sigh). Wei Wei then took Jane out cell phone shopping to take advantage of the aforementioned sales, and we then treated her to lunch out at the local market.



Jane has been the family's official food blogger as of late, but she went to bed early to fight a case of the sniffles. I'll let her describe lunch (a sneak preview: YUM!), but will, in the "one picture is better than me sitting at the computer for the next hour" tradition, at least point you to some photos of the day that I posted on to Flickr. (Best seen large, like this)

Happy 2010, everyone!