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2006

Dumplings at midnight

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Have added a photo in my wedding dress. We got married during Spring Festival (the Chinese equivalent to the Christmas season). On Chinese New Year's Eve, the tradition is for everyone to go home to their parents and make dumplings all night. This includes making the pastry and rolling out hundreds of little round dumpling wrappers. You then spend a few hours wrapping the dumplings and then you cook them and eat them at midnight.

I have Chinese heritage, but because my great grandparents came to Australia in the late 1800s, the few traditions that have survived are over a hundred years old. It's like being stuck in a time warp. Imagine meeting someone who came to Australia as an early settler then went to live overseas, but has carried on some of the traditions from that time. Nathan has found it rather amusing to say the least. It's been great to reconnect with my cultural roots, but I've realised that I'm as Chinese as most of you!

 

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Izzy
4.40 (Good) | November 2006 | Izzy
won tons

My husband loves wontons, though the ones we get at a take out chinese place here in the U.S. has probably been somehat americanized. I love chinese food too. Love it, love it, love it. In fact, I had a craving the other night.. but it was a craving that wasn't satisfied.

I think it's great that you can reconnect with your hertitage through your husband.  So have you been to China at all?



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      Anne
November 2006 | Anne
won tons

Yes, I went for the first time in 2000, met my husband and then went back a few times for short stays. Then I got a job teaching English and stayed for a year teaching at several middle schools, primary schools and adult training schools. That was the best year of my life! We got married and both of the photos I have posted were taken at that time in Beijing. Then we came home to Brisbane and I had to return to the real world and my real job. But I was very lucky to find a job I love.

 



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allyp
5.00 (Excellent) | November 2006 | allyp
Neat family tradition

mmm, dumplings they taste sooo yummy!!! (that's a nice family tradition)

Congrats on your wedding



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      Anne
4.00 (Good) | November 2006 | Anne
Neat family tradition
My ancestors were originally from the north of China, but migrated to the south. So I grew up on won tons (dumplings cooked in soup), but we never made them on New Year's Eve. In northern China they have jiaozi, which taste similar, but they are usually steamed and eaten with a vinegar dipping sauce and raw garlic - you munch on whole cloves of garlic! You can also pan fry them so they are a bit crunchy and golden, which is the way I like them. Yum!


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