Special Announcement for Teachers:

Chinese New Year is coming up and the Panda Express chain of Chinese restaurants is offering a FREE educational program to schools!

Panda Express is continuing with its Chinese New Year Learn With Me Program™. This provides educators with a FREE instructional resource kit to encourage 2nd to 4th graders to learn about traditional Chinese New Year celebrations.

The Chinese New Year Learn with Me Program kit contains:

* Panda Express’ Year of the Tiger DVD
* Year of the Tiger Fact Sheet
* Jade Emperor’s Interactive Game & Activity Sheet
* Chinese New Year Decoration Art Activity
* Lai See Activity Sheet
* Bookmarks (with a Free Kids Meal with purchase coupon attached)

A school is entitled to multiple orders for several classes, but each class can be given materials for 35 students each.


Please fill up the request form by Friday, December 18, 2009 by 11:59 pm Pacific Standard Time.

Sign up today and have a Happy Chinese New Year with your class!

Labels: Chinese New Year Events

Not what I expected at my local Costco in City of Industry!

Chinese New Year Calendar Events, Parades, and Festivals has a list of all the Cities in the US that the Chinese New Year Spectacular is in. And yes, I know who's behind it - so what, the show is amazing from the reviews I have read the couple of years I have been following it, and they have around 50 shows around the world. They even had a book at Costco with scenes from the Chinese New Year Show!

The group putting it on has done an amazing job on the publicity and it's the largest Chinese New Year Show I know of...

I don't mind getting review tickets either... And no, the picture of me wearing a Chinese costume, I think it was also yellow with the hat that was so tight it left marks on my head, is not going to be uploaded anytime soon ;-) If you have wedding photographs done in a Chinese studio you can also wear similar costumes. I have a super cute picture of my daughter as a Chinese Princess wearing the same style of costume.

Picture from Costco of the Divine Performing Arts Table:



My daughter's picture from a while ago:

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Chinese New Year Calendar Events, Parades, and Festivals update is going well, it's a lot of work since so many organizations have not put up their 2009 events yet, even if in January. So then I get to E-Mail and call asking for updates which I am still doing. About 80% updated.

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Nice article about Chinese New Year Events in Las Vegas. For some reason I had a hard time finding out about them, even after sending out E-Mails to some casinos. It's interesting which ones have Chinese New Year Events, and which ones don't.

Three other links for background:

• Why is it so hard to find Chinese New Year Events
• Chinese New Year Events - Growth in
• Chinese Gambling

Labels: Chinese New Year Events, las vegas

January 9, 2008 - Weaverville Chinese New Year Dinner
February 16, 2008 - Lion Dance at 11AM.

100+ Chinese New Year Events for the US and Canada

Labels: Chinese New Year Dinner, Chinese New Year Events, chinese New Year Lion Dance