First, as we all [should] know, Valentine's Day is February 14th, but this year, it happened to fall on the same day as the Chinese New Year, this year being the year of the Tiger. Incidentally, both of these happened to fall on Sunday. The likeliness of all three happening at once is something that happens once per lifetime. Pretty cool.
What is interesting is that the two holiday both focus primarily on relationships; however, Valentine's Day is generally geared towards romantic ones, while the latter is usually celebrated with the family. Needless to say, when the Mandarin class I was with were waiting in line at a Dim Sum restaurant, the rooms were packed with families and relatives sitting at tables of eight or more.
Not to digress too much, but some of the food at the restaurant was...interesting. Sometime you just shouldn't ask what it is before you eat it, because I found out that the mysterious bowl of prickly matter was in fact the stomach lining of some fortunate animal. Also, there's not much meat in chicken feet.
Hope you all had a memorable Chinese New Year's/Valentine's Day!
From left to right: chicken foot, something that felt like a bone, stomach lining, and skin-textured thing.
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