As the Asian American diaspora continues to evolve, here’s how people are celebrating Lunar New Year.
Growing up, New York-based writer Alexa Yoon celebrated Lunar New Year with her family in northern California. Together, they ate the traditional Korean new year soup tteokguk, a light broth filled with thin rice cakes and seaweed, as well as citrus fruits—for luck and prosperity, respectively. She bowed before her parents to receive envelopes of money. It was a holiday separated from her school and friends, an intimate festivity spent at home with immediate family.
The quintessential Lunar New Year gathering at Yoon’s is feral, gleeful, and loud. Red is a must for the dress code. “I like the vibe to be pretty slutty,” she says. “I would describe my ideal event as a Lunar New Year celebration for sluts.” You won't find food, just drinks inspired by modernized Asian food culture—think lychee martinis and flavored soju-based drinks.
While Nguyen celebrated Lunar New Year growing up, her family never explained the history or motivation behind certain activities. When she was younger, Nguyen congregated with not just her family, but the wider Vietnamese community.
Asian food trends tend to go viral often on social media, Park notes. And for Asian Americans, these recipes can provide a semblance of comforting flavor, offering simple and accessible ways to create food that evokes the feeling of pan-Asianness, something that tastes comforting but is also outside the scope of Western cooking. One trend that Nguyen said she’s excited to try this year is the
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