The Good news is the holiday began with a bang and Good Fortune is what has kept me too busy to post my greeting;
Have a Good Year of the Dragon!
Gung Hoy Fat Choy!
Gung Hoy Fat Choy!
...is what I' m late in wishing you, as the Lunar Festival started Monday
The Good news is the holiday began with a bang and Good Fortune is what has kept me too busy to post my greeting;
Have a Good Year of the Dragon!
The Good news is the holiday began with a bang and Good Fortune is what has kept me too busy to post my greeting;
Have a Good Year of the Dragon!
Re: Gung Hoy Fat Choy!
Yeah, I know it's Japanese...........
Your collective inability to acknowledge this obvious truth makes you all look like fools.
yrs,
rubato
Re: Gung Hoy Fat Choy!
You'd think that Santa Satan Claws would be out of season right now, wouldn't you?
Well, you're wrong. I often go into Asian markets these days, they're popping up everywhere. I'm not kidding, when I say that if a Mexican or American grocery store closes 'round here; it's usually replaced by an Asian or Indian market. [That's not so bad, if you can tolerate the high levels of mercury in their fish. ...but I digress.]
Even Bob's Mini-mart is now owned by a very dark, eastern-accented 'Bob' these days.
This one liquor store, on this one block, still has a Spanish name (I was going to post it, thinking who would find this little hole-in-wall shop named after a Mexican girl? When just in case, I googled it and discovered this place smaller than a McDonald's restroom, has a website; complete with a photo tour of it's ONE aisle of chips, candy and porn mags, to the back TWO refrigerators of booze, sodas and Clamato [Who drinks that, seriously?] )
AnywayZ, I say to the owner, one day, 'You must have been here a long time?'
To which he replies, 'Si' over twenty years, how did you guess?'
I say, because your the only Spanish store left in this area, every other business around you is now Asian stores, Asian restaurants and Asian music shops that sell pinoy phone cards.
...so, if you go into an Asian market about now, while the Lunar New Year Festivals are still going on; you'll hear plenty of cheerful, traditional folk tunes [yay] ...and the odd Christmas carol thrown in.
Hmmm, okay, you can't get enough winter cheer, I guess.
Well, you're wrong. I often go into Asian markets these days, they're popping up everywhere. I'm not kidding, when I say that if a Mexican or American grocery store closes 'round here; it's usually replaced by an Asian or Indian market. [That's not so bad, if you can tolerate the high levels of mercury in their fish. ...but I digress.]
Even Bob's Mini-mart is now owned by a very dark, eastern-accented 'Bob' these days.
This one liquor store, on this one block, still has a Spanish name (I was going to post it, thinking who would find this little hole-in-wall shop named after a Mexican girl? When just in case, I googled it and discovered this place smaller than a McDonald's restroom, has a website; complete with a photo tour of it's ONE aisle of chips, candy and porn mags, to the back TWO refrigerators of booze, sodas and Clamato [Who drinks that, seriously?] )
AnywayZ, I say to the owner, one day, 'You must have been here a long time?'
To which he replies, 'Si' over twenty years, how did you guess?'
I say, because your the only Spanish store left in this area, every other business around you is now Asian stores, Asian restaurants and Asian music shops that sell pinoy phone cards.
...so, if you go into an Asian market about now, while the Lunar New Year Festivals are still going on; you'll hear plenty of cheerful, traditional folk tunes [yay] ...and the odd Christmas carol thrown in.
Hmmm, okay, you can't get enough winter cheer, I guess.