Last-Minute Chinese New Year Activities
Chinese New Year is here in less than a week, on February 8th. With my little girl starting elementary school and my little guy being...
All I Want for Christmas Is...
I love Christmas. We are a few days into December already and Christmas decorations are showing in shops and window displays. So what is...
Mooncakes, Lanterns And More...
Mid Autumn Festival (中秋節; Jyutping: zung1 cau1 zit3) is celebrated on the fifteenth day of the eighth month in the Chinese lunar...
Dragon Boats & Rice Dumplings
Dragon Boat Festival 端午節 (Jyutping: dyun1 ng5 zit3) is celebrated on the 5th day of the 5th month of the Chinese lunar calendar. This...
Craft Ideas and Vocabulary for Mother's Day
Mother's day is less than 2 weeks away (for those in UK it's already been and gone though). So it's time to brush up on some Mother's Day...
Ching Ming Taboos and Vocabulary
Ching Ming Festival 清明節 (Jyutping: ceng1 ming4 zit3), also called Tomb Sweeping Day, usually falls around April 4th or 5th - April 5th...
Easter Egg Hunt with a Twist
If you have walked through store aisles lately, you've seen many reminders (yummy reminders!) that Easter is coming. Bring on the Easter...
Crash Course in Cantonese for Chinese New Year
恭喜發財 gung1 hei2 faat3 coi4 Happy Chinese New Year! As the festivities have just started and will last for days, it is never too late to...
Chinese New Year Food You Can Make with Kids
Whenever we visited Hong Kong, we always chatted with friends and family over dim sum or dinner. My husband concluded that Chinese people...
8 Ways to Celebrate Chinese New Year
Chinese New Year, or Lunar New Year, is the most important Chinese holiday celebrated all over the world. It lasts for the first fifteen...