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Lee, Kirkland artist, designs Lunar New Year calendar

February 3, 2022 By Northwest Asian Weekly

For the third year running, U.S. Bank has commissioned Kirkland resident and artist Nolen Lee to create the bank’s Lunar New Year calendar.

Filed Under: Community News, Cultures, Feature stories Tagged With: 2022, VOL 41 NO 6 | FEBRUARY 5 - FEBRUARY 11

Smooth like butter: Link between Korean American foods, culture—Celebrating Lunar New Year

February 3, 2022 By Northwest Asian Weekly

In a packed home kitchen, the sounds of sizzling pajeon (scallion pancake) and the smell of doenjang jjigae (soybean paste stew) fill the house.

Filed Under: Cultures, Feature stories, Food Tagged With: 2022, VOL 41 NO 6 | FEBRUARY 5 - FEBRUARY 11

USPS issues new stamp celebrating Lunar New Year

January 27, 2022 By Northwest Asian Weekly

NEW YORK CITY — The U.S. Postal Service held a special event to commemorate the Year of the Tiger on Jan. 20 in New York. The event commemorates the third of 12 postage stamps in the Lunar New Year series. Special guests included Global Artistic Programs Vice President and Director of the Asia Society Museum […]

Filed Under: Cultures, Feature stories Tagged With: 2022, VOL 41 NO 5 | JANUARY 29 - FEBRUARY 4

Red, white, and Ox

February 19, 2021 By Northwest Asian Weekly

This Year of the Ox, around Spring Festival, my father would have been 100 years old. Beer or whiskey.

Filed Under: Lifestyle, Community News, Cultures, Feature stories, Food, This week's issue Tagged With: 2021, VOL 40 NO 8 | FEBRUARY 20 - FEBRUARY 26

29th annual Mochi Tsuki on Bainbridge Island

January 12, 2018 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Jessica Kai Curry NORTHWEST ASIAN WEEKLY What started as a private celebration between friends and family on Bainbridge Island has grown into a widely-anticipated public festival that attracted over 1,000 participants this year. The highlight of the Jan. 7 event marking the 29th annual Mochi Tsuki was unquestionably the mochi making demonstration, led by […]

Filed Under: Community News, Cultures, Feature stories Tagged With: 2018, MOCHI TSUKI, VOL 37 NO 3 | JANUARY 13 - 19

How to score points at your next family dinner

December 22, 2017 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Sun Lee Chang NORTHWEST ASIAN WEEKLY You have survived the Thanksgiving holidays with friends and family around a dinner table. Now, it’s time to look forward to other holidays and first of the year celebrations. If your family is like mine, it is a blend of folks of various ethnicities and nationalities. I know […]

Filed Under: Features, Community News, Cultures, Feature stories Tagged With: 2017, VOL 36 NO 52 | DECEMBER 23 - DECEMBER 29

Fool’s Destiny (an eclipse) in stanza prose

August 24, 2017 By Northwest Asian Weekly

Editor’s note: This poem was sent to us by one of our readers, commemorating the solar eclipse that occurred Aug. 21. By Mac Crary SPECIAL TO NORTHWEST ASIAN WEEKLY Sky was clear, temperature in the mild to warm 70s, From Hing Hay Pagoda in Chinatown/International District, Seattle Found me in the perfect place on a […]

Filed Under: Lifestyle, Briefs, Cultures Tagged With: Chinatown, Eclipse, VOL 36 NO 35 | AUGUST 26 - SEPT 1, hing hay park

‘Longest Sushi Roll’ reenactment successful

April 28, 2017 By Northwest Asian Weekly

At the 38th Annual Seattle Cherry Blossom & Japanese Cultural Festival held on April 21-23, people of all cultures flooded the Seattle Center Armory to learn about Japanese culture and to watch a reenactment of the 1997 attempt to break the world record for the longest sushi roll.

Filed Under: Features, Community News, Cultures, Feature stories Tagged With: 2017, CHERRY BLOSSOM, VOL 36 NO 18 | APRIL 29 - MAY 5

Phnom Pros Phnom Srey

April 28, 2017 By Northwest Asian Weekly

The University of Washington (UW)’s Khmer Student Association marked its 21st annual Cambodian New Year Show on April 15.

Filed Under: Features, Community News, Cultures, Feature stories Tagged With: 2017, PHNOM PROS PHNOM SREY, VOL 36 NO 18 | APRIL 29 - MAY 5

Where to eat for a Lunar New Year experience

January 26, 2017 By Northwest Asian Weekly

When it comes to Lunar New Year, your year is what you eat. Want luck, prosperity, good fortune, and longevity?

Filed Under: Business, Cultures, Feature stories, Food Tagged With: 2017, CALLIGRAPHER YENBO HUANG, CO LAM PAGODA, DONG THAP NOODLE HOUSE, DOUGH ZONE, Din Tai Fung, Eastern Cafe, GOSSIP MILK TEA, Tsue Chong Noodles Co, Uwajimaya, VOL 36 NO 5 | JANUARY 28 - FEBRUARY 3

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