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Of course, food and drink are an important part of any New Year
celebrations—regardless of your culture. There is a recipe for a Chinese
New Year cake at
http://www.jaring.my/dodol/p7.htm, while at
http://www.new-year.co.uk/chinese/index1.htm you can
watch how the fortune cookie crumbles.

If you want to bone up on your Chinese you could visit
http://www.ocrat.com/ocrat/voa/Atxt.html.

In the meantime, Netropolitan would like to wish all our readers “Gung
hay fat choy”—which with a bit of luck means “Happy New Year”.

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