Tag: Chinese New Year

• Welcome, Goat (or Sheep or Ram)!

  

  I can’t stop thinking about this goats’ sequences when the Chinese New Year was approaching this year. In Indonesia we refer the year as goat rather than sheep or rams. (If you’re not quite sure which to refer, CNN has explained it here.) The “Rolling Goat” is a celebration meal. It serves goats’ roasted meat and with sweet soy…

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  February 19, 2015

  Culture, Illustrations

  Chinese New Year

• Singkawang’s Minute of Rhapsody

  We had been on the road for four hours now. After a while, things started to grasp in. This was Indonesia indeed, yet it always felt like this for me: familiar yet so different. Darwin, the driver, took no turn. It had been straight all along from Pontianak up to the north. The road was okay…

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  March 20, 2012

  Travels

  Borneo, Cap Go Meh, Chinese New Year, Chinese New Year Celebration, Festival, Festivity, Indonesia, Pontianak, Singkawang, West Kalimantan