>Chinese New Year: 2012 : The Year of the Dragon
Chinese New Year is the longest and most important celebration in the Chinese calendar. The Chinese year 4710 begins on Jan. 23, 2012.
Chinese months are reckoned by the lunar calendar, with each month beginning on the darkest day. New Year festivities traditionally start on the first day of the month and continue until the fifteenth, when the moon is brightest. In China, people may take weeks of holiday from work to prepare for and celebrate the New Year.
Dim Sum Dynasty in Ridgewood is celebrating the Lunar New Year
Dim Sum Dynasty in Ridgewood (Cantonese): Offers four banquet menus for eight to 10 people, ranging from $388 to $618. Each includes 10 courses, ranging from mixed seafood soup and special fried rice (on the cheapest menu) to lobster and Dungeness crab (on the most expensive menu).
Dim Sum Dynasty
75 Franklin Ave Ridgewood, NJ 07450.
(201) 652-0686
www.dimsumdynastynj.com
