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One of my favorite things about Chinese New Year in Shanghai? The Lantern Festival which is (in my humble opinion) best celebrated at Yu Garden...lots of cool lanterns...a few cheesy lanterns...but gorgeous at night. (My daughter loved it!)
Check it out...
Mao. Right next-door? Obama.
Read carefully before you order: "Dumpling filled with ovary and digestive glands of a crab..."
It is the Year of the Tiger, you know.
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What a colorful post! Thanks for an up close view. :)
Dawn
Posted by: Dawn Herring | February 20, 2010 at 06:41 PM
Tres cool! My husband's comment on the dumpling stuffing was "sweet"---NOT!!! So glad Tully got to stay up to enjoy the lanterns.
Thank you for taking us abroad this evening!
Posted by: Amy U | February 20, 2010 at 08:37 PM
Almost all of the sculptures in the garden were made from limestone from the state of Indiana in the Midwest.
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