Happy Chinese New Year! (A little late)

We originally planned to celebrate Chinese New Year on the weekend of February 12th. We didn't get the chance to because we ended up having to quarantine because of the positive cases popping up at Steve's work.

So me and the girls ended up going to my mom's after 2 full weeks of staying away.

My kids have never experienced celebrating this holiday and to be honest, we didn't like actually celebrate. 

We did have the traditional "hot pot" for dinner. A big pot of soup with a ton of items to cook in the broth.

Noodles, meat, shrimp, veggies, tofu. 

All cooking in this amazing-smelling broth.

Mixed together with some sort of Chinese BBQ sauce mixed with thick soy sauce and hot sauce.

The smell was so nostalgic.

I think I had 4 bowls of soup and goodness. 

I'm so glad my girls got to experience a little of it! 

They also learned how to say "Gong xi fa chai, hong bao nah lie" which means in English "Happy Chinese New Year, hand over the red pack of money" lol.