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Lunar New Year is here, and so is one of the largest Vietnamese festivals in Louisiana: Tet Fest. To welcome the year of the snake, Tet Fest celebrates with authentic food, music and dances. From In the Chinese zodiac, 2025 is the Year of the Snake. Different countries across Asia celebrate the new year in many ways and may follow a different zodiac. New Orleans, LA » Celebrate the year of the Snake - Chinese New Year 2025 In New Orleans with a bunch of interesting events. From extensive dinners to lantern making workshops in New Orleans there is a lot to do on the occasion of the Chinese New Year 2025 in New Orleans. Lunar New Year — which includes Chinese New Year, Seollal in Korea, Tet in Vietnam and more — begins on Jan. 29, kicking off more than two weeks of parties, customs and copious feasts. The Chinese New Year celebration is hugely different from the normal New Year celebration that begins on the eve of 31 st December and ends on the 1 st of January, the very next day. This celebration begins on the first day of the Chinese calendar and continues for a fortnight and ends on the 15 th day of the first month. Rather than following the western Gregorian Calendar with 365-day years, the Chinese New Year follows a lunar calendar based the moon's 12 phases. Each phase cycle spans approximately 29 days with Signs in Vietnamese, only some bearing English translations, pointed guests in the direction of New Orleans' annual Tết Festival Saturday, a lunar new year celebration held at Mary, Queen of Dragon Dance at Beard Papa’s. The New Orleans branch of Japanese-born bakery chain Beard Papa’s is inviting its (many) loyal fans to stop by the Magazine Street shop on Sunday, January 30 at 1 p.m. for a Lunar New Year celebration, featuring a dragon dance and special cream puff flavors to include red bean and salted egg yolk and coconut — buy five cream puffs, get one free. NOLA Nite Market, the organizer of a hugely popular four-year-old nighttime festival, is hosting a two-day Lunar New Year food festival. The Lunar New Year Nola Nite Market will take place at the Westwego Farmers Market the weekend following Lunar New Year: Friday, February 3, from 5 to 10 p.m. and Saturday, February 4, from noon to 10 p.m. The This is the first Lunar New Year for Miss Shirley's Chinese Restaurant (3009 Magazine St., 504-354-2530), which Shirley and Tang Lee opened late last year after many years running their former Tet Fest 2025 | New Orleans Proudly presented by the Mary Queen of Vietnam Church, Tet Fest is an annual winter festival celebrating the Vietnamese New Year. Attendees can enjoy traditional Vietnamese cuisine, dance and music, children’s activities, and firework displays. This year’s Tet Fest is set for January 31, February 1, and February 2 at the Mary Queen of Vietnam Church in New The Chinese American Association of Greater New Orleans will present a Chinese New Year Celebration on Feb. 10, calling it the first ever in Covington and perhaps the first in all of St. Tammany As millions of people around the globe ring in the Lunar New Year, one Boston hotel welcomed a local kung fu and tai chi academy to perform and bestow good luck and fortune to all into the year 4,723. The biggest local Lunar New Year, or Tet, celebration is hosted by New Orleans East’s Mary Queen of Vietnam Church on Friday, Feb. 16, through Sunday, Feb. 18. Ondori New Year Specials. Celebrating year of the Snake Starting January 28, 2025 at 5:00pm 年年有余 Prosperity In The New Year steamed whole fresh bass $48.88 金沙生蠓Wealth Pouring In fried oysters with salt and pepper $39.88 发财就手 Build Riches pork feet in oyster sauce served with fat choy (black moss) $38.88 Looking for the best ways to celebrate Chinese New Year and extend the holiday fun? Here’s your short list of the best parties in the United States. A crash course on Lunar New Year vs. calendar New Year. In the West, our New Year is based on the Gregorian calendar, which was rolled out by a pope in the late 1500s. Station news There are loads of events, from the Basketball Jamboree on February 17 right up through the city’s official Chinese New Year Parade on February 24—one of the biggest, most iconic illuminated Signs written in Vietnamese, a few bearing English translations, pointed guests to New Orleans' annual Tet Festival on Saturday, the lunar Article - 8 Travel Trends Shaping Chinese New Year 2025 - ForwardKeys data reveals a significant post-pandemic rebound in Chinese outbound travel for the upcoming Chinese New Year (CNY) vacation 6823 St. Charles Avenue New Orleans, LA 70118 504-865-5000. Maps & Directions A man holding incense sticks prays on the first day of the Chinese Lunar New Year at Lama Temple in Beijing on Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2025. City of New Orleans prepares to welcome Chiefs &
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