Gothamist: It's the Lunar New Year

bruce

Fri, 23 Jan 2004 18:00:48 -0500

jo: i like that comment... stop choking it already, will ya!! =) happy new year!!

karen

Thu, 22 Jan 2004 21:56:22 -0500

how can i get those little monkeys in that bottom photo? i want a couple. heh.

Jo

Thu, 22 Jan 2004 21:07:19 -0500

Year 4702 TOTALLY ROCKS! (as my homeboy would say, obvs.) To wit: Within two weeks of 9/11 my gf and I had both lost our jobs. We have been consulting/temping/self-employed/struggling ever since. Yesterday - New Year's Eve - I landed my dream job. Today - New Year's Day - she landed her dream job. 28 months of hell, 2 days of bliss. By the way, she was born in the year of the Monkey. Oh yeah, great post Jen, thanks. Between you and Tien this will be my most informed Chinese New Year ever.

ShinGo

Thu, 22 Jan 2004 15:51:25 -0500

"Purple monkey is "overall" luck." I always thought Purple Monkey meant you're grabbing it a little too hard. Happy Chinese New Year!

Jen

Thu, 22 Jan 2004 13:43:17 -0500

This is third hand, so I might be wrong, but: Brown monkey is to ward away the annoying little people. Blue monkey is for health. Yellow monkey is for work and success. Pink monkey is for love and family. Purple monkey is "overall" luck.

cinetrix

Thu, 22 Jan 2004 11:49:44 -0500

Noooooo! Not Dim Sum Go-Go! I experienced the worst gastrointestinal event of my life--in the bathroom of a Fung Wah bus speeding to Boston, no less--after eating there.

Jen

Thu, 22 Jan 2004 11:45:48 -0500

Ah, thanks for reminding me where Bao is. The Lunar New Year is making me a-crazy!

damnspaniard

Thu, 22 Jan 2004 11:41:32 -0500

BAO 111 is on avenue C, not A. But you're such a cutie that we forgive the mistake

karatechimp

Thu, 22 Jan 2004 11:30:57 -0500

I'm so excited about the year of the monkey!

Ron Mwangaguhunga

Thu, 22 Jan 2004 11:19:12 -0500

I always thought Mayor Bloomberg looked a bit Simian as well.

scott

Thu, 22 Jan 2004 10:35:58 -0500

i was in ny in nov - stayed in soho and LOVED it. would love to be there to celebrate Chinese New Year right now! thanks for the great site... scott from chicago

eebmore

Thu, 22 Jan 2004 08:09:01 -0500

Jen, saying people look like monkeys isn't nice, even though he ABSOLUTELY does kind of look like a monkey (but in that cute, adorable controlled by a ring of nefarious "advisors" kind of way). Right now a picture of a mean political cartoon is developing in my head. One that includes Cheney with an accordian and Bush running around collecting quarters from a charmed electoriate; but, that would be mean.

Kristen

Thu, 22 Jan 2004 01:38:04 -0500

I know what the yellow and the pink are for but what are all the other colors for?