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Happy New Year!!  Today starts the new year on the Chinese Lunar calendar.  We had a feast of sorts yesterday at my mom's house.  She's an awesome cook.

This is a fish dish that is dredged in flour and then dipped in egg whites.  It is fried in a bit of oil.  It's pretty healthy regardless of the frying part. 

Then we have the beef version of this.  Usually, there are also many variations of this using different vegetables.  Also, you can have pancake type dishes.

This dish is called jap-chae (not pronounced with that strong "j" but a softer one). 

And, our main course:  mandoo gook aka dumpling soup.

This is a labor intensive soup.  Everything was made from scratch from the dumpling wrapper to the broth.  My mom is an awesome cook.