Jinny showed us how to make Mandu – Korean dumplings traditionally eaten at New Year.
Mandu are little dumplings – you make them with circles of pastry filled with scrambled, salted cucumber and oyster sauce.
We had to put in the filling and put water round the outside of the pastry to act as the glue to seal it.
We watched a video about a little girl called Abi who was celebrating Chinese New Year in Liverpool with her family. We learned about some of the things people do to welcome the new year and bring good luck.
Jinny then steamed the Mandu for us – they were delicious!
Picking up mushrooms with chopsticks is tricky!
Batman is a champ at eating Brussel Sprouts with his chopsticks!
Some of us were lucky enough to visit Leni in the Meitai restaurant in the village. Leni told us lots about Chinese New Year.
The restaurant had been decorated with Red Chinese Lanterns- Red is a lucky colour!
Here we are outside the restaurant!
When we go out we have to take a partner’s hand and walk in a line.
There were lucky Chinese lions on the window ledge of the restaurant.
Leni showed us the lucky red envelopes Chinese children are given at New Year. They have lucky money in them. These ones had Mickey Mouse on them.
Leni told us about cleaning the house for New Year and putting a firecracker on either side of the door to ward off bad luck. She told us all the children get new pyjamas for New Year and it is a real celebration – a bit like our Christmas. She played us Chinese music and showed us a New Year parade on her laptop.
Today we are welcoming in the Year of the Rooster- it’s Chinese New Year. All week we have been learning about Chinese celebrations and have tried writing Chinese Numbers which look different to Scottish ones.
