Year of the Dragon - Paris 2024

[kerouac2]

With four different Chinatowns, Paris celebrates the Chinese new year four different times and saves the biggest for last.

[kerouac2]

[kerouac2]

inside the Tang Frères supermarket

[cheerypeabrain]

Fantastic, colourful photos Kerouac! Shame about the weather tho.

It hissed it down here last weekend so the planned firework display was cancelled. There wasn't a parade as such, but there is usually a display of some kind in the town hall square.

[bixaorellana]

That parade really makes me feel as though the new year has been properly greeted and protection has been granted.

You got so many great, colorful pictures despite the gray day, Kerouac. Kudos to the participants, as the contrast between what they're wearing & the bundled up crowd shows that the brightly garbed paraders were probably freezing their 屁股 off.

[htmb]

I wonder what those last two are supposed to represent. They don’t particularly look like they’re in character.

[bixaorellana]

It could be that the blue boy is Tianlu and the red boy is **drum roll** Bixie.

artsandculture.google.com/usergallery/mythical-animals-as-symbols-in-chinese-art%C2%A0/0QKSVMF6OpzjIA

[kerouac2]

[kerouac2]

Or course the shops were all open and doing great business.





A lot of people eat one Vietnamese bánh mì a year, and today was the day.











One last prayer at Notre Dame de Chine and then it was time to go home and dry off. The parade was just beginning...

[htmb]

Are the duck heads used in the bánh mì, or are they extra tidbits served on the side?

[kerouac2]

Pork is the usual meat for banh mi (when they're not vegetarian). Duck is a delicacy on its own, although I don't know how the heads are eaten. Chopped up into rice or soup or maybe something for toothless grannies to suck on?