Does anyone know if anything is going on in Sheffield for Chinese new year?

i personally will be at jumbo's for a slap up meal :D :D

We had a Great banquet in Morecambe last year, to celebrate the Chinese New Year.:)

Pardon my hignorantz but when exactly is Chinese New Year?

Originally posted by owdlad
We had a Great banquet in Morecambe last year, to celebrate the Chinese New Year.:) how come you didn't invite me you shellfish bugger:|

Jumbos! Mmmmmmmmmm :thumbsup:

New year is on Monday isnt it.



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Originally posted by kirky
how come you didn't invite me you shellfish bugger:|

I would have done but you were to busy driving Molly Malone into Liverpool. ;)

Originally posted by Katya
Pardon my hignorantz but when exactly is Chinese New Year?

February 9, 2005 is the first day of the new year. It is the year of the Rooster.

Theres chinese new year celebrations at the Octagon Centre at UofS on 9th Wed. You can get the tickets from chinese community centre on london road. doors open at 5pm. shows from 7pm-9pm.

There will be lion dancing in several chinese restaurants around town that week in the afternoon and evening. So if you decide to go for a chinese meal, you might get a performance with your meal! :D

Originally posted by funkyukgal
Theres chinese new year celebrations at the Octagon Centre at UofS on 9th Wed. You can get the tickets from chinese community centre on london road. doors open at 5pm. shows from 7pm-9pm.

There will be lion dancing in several chinese restaurants around town that week in the afternoon and evening. So if you decide to go for a chinese meal, you might get a performance with your meal! :D

Do you know which resturants are having lion dances?

candytown, east ocean, golden dragon, floch and a few more.

there will be a afternoon when the lion will go round town blessing most of the restaurants...so follow the drumming and cymbols :D

what day r you doing it around town ???

what day r you doing it around town ???

Feb Sunday the 18th 12 pm ish

Starting in various Chinese resturants in town, then making our back to the l
London road resturants and shops, and finishing off at the Chinese Community Centre.

Kung hai fa Choy

in advance, for the new year, to everyone

Kung hai fa Choy

in advance, for the new year, to everyone

Gung xi fai cai

I'm learning mandarin:D

Gung xi fai cai

I'm learning mandarin:D

ahh! sorry, doing it phoenetically, upin...

ahh! sorry, doing it phoenetically, upin...

Yours is cantonese (around hong kong) but mine is mandarin (spoken in mainland china)

That's excluding all the other bits of the world that chinese is spoken

so are the two pronounced the same, upin?

I'd read the mandarin one pronounced as "khung chee faiy chay"

candytown, east ocean, golden dragon, floch and a few more.

there will be a afternoon when the lion will go round town blessing most of the restaurants...so follow the drumming and cymbols :D

Candy town is always good for Chinese new year - I was there at that time once and they had a huge dragon dancing all over the restaurant - a very festive atmosphere.

Shamefully, I live within shouting distance of Sharrow Chinatown but have never, in a full decade seen the new year stuff. I saw the lion/ dragon thing one year as I came out of the subway, but that was by chance. I will definitely be there this time. :thumbsup:

What animal is it going to be this year?

<snippitty>What animal is it going to be this year?

it's apparently the year of the Rooster.

not sure which element rules over it, but it's Rooster, anyway

Shamefully, I live within shouting distance of Sharrow Chinatown but have never, in a full decade seen the new year stuff. I saw the lion/ dragon thing one year as I came out of the subway, but that was by chance. I will definitely be there this time. :thumbsup:

What animal is it going to be this year?

It will be the Year of the Pig

oh. erm...
was rooster the year which has just gone, then? :blush:

it's apparently the year of the Rooster.

not sure which element rules over it, but it's Rooster, anyway

Plain Talker, I do hope its not a bad omen for the spread of chicken flu !!!!

Yeh, it's the year of the pig. :)
I think Rooster was in year 2005. Last year's was the year of the dog. After a while, I lose count.. cos I don't want to be reminding myself of my age! :P

PT: Sun Lin Fi Lok !

("Happy New Year" in Cantonese. Excuse the bad pingyum. I don't understand the different translation system myself, so I write as it sounds.)

If someone says to you, "Kung hai fa Choy", you could say "Like See Dow Loy" ! (="Give us a red packet" :D ) Do this with a hand cupping gesture. I wonder if this would set off a new trend in the city. (People are supposed to give you a small red envelope with money inside! Though, I can see people be mean, and maybe give a sweet or something. Only married couples, and employers do this.) :hihi:

you can also offer food like a oranges with the packet.

so who it the troupe that is doing the dance.

I have a friend that enters international Competitions for Lion Dancing on jongs (polls) not easy I fell of more times than I stayed on lol

(People are supposed to give you a small red envelope with money inside! Though, I can see people be mean, and maybe give a sweet or something. Only married couples, and employers do this.)

my mum always sends me a new year card and a red envelope with some money in.

(and we're not even chinese- my mums lovely! :love:)


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my mum always sends me a new year card and a red envelope with some money in.

(and we're not even chinese- my mums lovely! :love:)

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Yes indeedy! :o
It's nice when you're still unmarried and receive these little red envelopes. I think I will cry buckets when I do marry. :hihi:

you can also offer food like a oranges with the packet.
so who it the troupe that is doing the dance.
I dunno who they are myself, but I know that the Chinese Sunday school have their own parade round the city this year. I think it's a dragon that's going round town this year. There's also an article in the Telegraph a little while back.

However, I've just seen a group of performers doing the lion dance tonight, which I thought was pretty well done. :) (Whoever was being the back end of the lion had a great wiggle! lol. It gave the lion an animated look.) I didn't quite catch the logo on this team's t-shirts. I have heard of the ones in China being able to jump on stilts! Not sure whether this is true or not. Or maybe they do a type of martial arts since young or something...

Yep I know some teams that do the jongs but its not for the light harted lol some of them can be 6 to 8 ft up lol
I had a go at walking on some but I don’t think I would like to do a dance on them lol

However, I've just seen a group of performers doing the lion dance tonight, which I thought was pretty well done. :) (Whoever was being the back end of the lion had a great wiggle! lol. It gave the lion an animated look.) I didn't quite catch the logo on this team's t-shirts..


Was it at Candy Town restaurant? It was probably me doing the wiggle :D I like to shake my ass:hihi: