🧧 Happy Lunar New Year! It’s the Year of the Snake 🐍 - a time to shed, transform & reimagine. Birth years include 1917, 1929, 1941, 1953, 1965, 1977, 1989, 2001, 2013, and 2025 - I’m Year of the Snake! Lunar New Year is celebrated for 15 days from Jan 29 to Feb 12th - and here are some lucky food that you should eat & where to eat them in Austin: [ Lunar New Year lucky food ] 🥟 dumplings - (wealth) more dumplings you eat, the more money you can make 🥟 Lin Asian Bar, Dumpling King, Mian & Bao 🍜 noodles - (long life) longevity noodles, longer the better 🍜 Mian & Bao, Pho Please, Sazan Ramen, Julie’s Noodles 🐟 whole fish (prosperity) - to have a surplus at the end of the year 🐟 Ho Ho 〰️ sweet rice dumplings/tangyuan (family togetherness) - roundness symbolizes harmony and togetherness 👯‍♀️ family meals - I love getting friends together and trying a brunch of dishes together 👯‍♀️ Bamboo House, House of Three Gorges, Asia Cafe 🍊 citrus fruit (happiness & fullness) - round shape gives fullness in life and spirit and golden hue is a reflection of a wish for wealth 〰️ rice cakes/nian gao (growth, elevation and progress) - traditional glutinous rice cakes. Gao means tall in Chinese signifying successes and improvements #austintx #austintexas #trueaustin #lunarnewyear #yearofthesnake