The sixty-sixth birthday is a very special one in China, because six is liu(4), and liu also means "luck". So sixty-six is liu liu, or "luck luck" -- a very good birthday. Our friends made a very special dessert for us, "eight-treasure rice". The eight treasures are dried fruit and nuts in the sticky rice, with sweet red bean sauce as well. Yum! The photo is a dish of eight-treasure rice that they sent home with us and that we shared with Rick for dinner last night. What a treat to have such good friends who spoil us so!
Tuesday, June 3, 2008
Birthday (1)
This month is my 66th birthday, and our good friends Qi Hua and Jun Ni invited us over for dinner a couple of days ago. I'm really sorry that I didn't take a photo of the whole table, because they and Jun's parents really gave us a wonderful dinner. We just don't go out for Chinese food in the US any more (unless we have Chinese friends with us who know how to order off the menu) because we're so spoiled by real Chinese food.
The sixty-sixth birthday is a very special one in China, because six is liu(4), and liu also means "luck". So sixty-six is liu liu, or "luck luck" -- a very good birthday. Our friends made a very special dessert for us, "eight-treasure rice". The eight treasures are dried fruit and nuts in the sticky rice, with sweet red bean sauce as well. Yum! The photo is a dish of eight-treasure rice that they sent home with us and that we shared with Rick for dinner last night. What a treat to have such good friends who spoil us so!
The sixty-sixth birthday is a very special one in China, because six is liu(4), and liu also means "luck". So sixty-six is liu liu, or "luck luck" -- a very good birthday. Our friends made a very special dessert for us, "eight-treasure rice". The eight treasures are dried fruit and nuts in the sticky rice, with sweet red bean sauce as well. Yum! The photo is a dish of eight-treasure rice that they sent home with us and that we shared with Rick for dinner last night. What a treat to have such good friends who spoil us so!
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