No one started a thread like this so I thought I’d start it.
Even though I’ve never met any of you on the forum I feel like I know many of you through our countless exchanges (for good or for bad;) .)
Hopefully I’ll get to meet some of you folks at some point in my martial arts career.
Have a good and prosperous year and spread the seeds of Wudang, Shaolin, Emei and the Karate Kid… across the world.
Anyways, maybe people could tell us how they are gonna celebrate the new year.
For me and my kung fu school we will be doing non-stop lion and dragon dancing plus kung fu performances this weekend and the weekend after that. This is a big time of year for my school. I see lots of big chinese meals in my near future. This year I get to try Chicken feet for the first time…
hope all goes well/better then it did this past year.
Have Fun Fu-pow, new year is the best time, i love all the demos, lion dance is alot of fun. I’ll be in the same boat at my school, excpet we only do one nonstop weekend instead of two.
now anyone remeber how to actually say happy new year???(
stab in the dark - sun yeen fei law??? its something like that…
anyone
Length do matter, our firecrackers are almost two storeys long with a big bang at the end and you need a licence to light them! With the drums, cymbols and gongs, you’ll be mad not to wear a pair of ear plugs.
Eddie,
Why should anyone ever want to eat chicken legs? Because the most senior elder of Hung Sing CLF still alive told me once, eating a lot of chicken legs in black bean sauce will make the hair grow on your third leg! No wonder the South Africans are weak on their third legs in cricket! You guys don’t eat chicken legs like we do, that is why! Duck feet are for the quacks…
Ngo Ge Kung Fu Hing Dai, Gung Ho Nei Sun Nin Fi Lok!
Sisuk joseph, Actually, in South Africa they eat just about any part of any animal. obviously different races (and ethnic groups) have different prefrences. There is a street vendor close to one of my families business sites who sells fried sheep brains (still inside the skull).
I hope it doesnt make you a bad clf player if you dont eat chicken legs :). Thought chan heung said CF people must be vegitarian?
Now that’s got to be on the manu of the New Year’s Eve Banquet. What better way to welcome the Year of the Ram!
Jaza,
Most Chinamen can’t hold their drinks, including me, so we will see some spectcular Jue Kuen the next few days! Watch out for the Gwa Sow “Chuck”, it’s deadly!
Eddie you should give the chickens feet a try (I think there pronounced vung jow or fung jow), whenever I order dim sum they are on the top of the list. Fu-Pow you should also try the aap ja (Duck’s feet) as well.
I have never quite understood why chicken feet are called “fung jow”. I though that would translate to Phoenix Claws. Wouldn’t chicken feet be “Gai Jow”, everyone knows peeps like to eat “gai”.
A sex worker is also called a “gai” in Cantonese so it is not very auspicious to eat a sex worker’s claw, It is hard to tell where it has been. “Gai Jow” could also mean being clawed by a sex worker so that is not desirable either. “Fung Jow” is a much better euphemisn.
We also eat snakes and cats, but we call them Lung (Dragon) and Fu (Tiger) instead. I wonder what would be an auspicious name for “fried sheep brains (still inside the skull)”, may be Eddie can tell us.
Don’t laugh, we have the whole Chinese New Year’s manu made up in food with auspicious sounding names like “Hoe Si Faat Choy”, where “Hoe Si” are oyster and it sound like “good affairs”; “Faat Choy” are a type of vegetable that look like a bundle of crooked black hairs and it sounds like “sudden wealth”, so to eat a dish of “Hoe Si Faat Choy” means you will have good business (or good affairs - wink, wink.) and get rich suddenly in the new year. My mother used to always cook a dish of that in the Chinese New Year’s Eve family bash even though I hate the stuff but I always eat some, you’ll never know…
