As each year approaches the transition between January and February, the holiday season seems to die down in America, with New Year parties following Thanksgiving and Christmas to complete the holiday trifecta. However, as some people clean up the confetti from the New Year countdown, Chinese and Vietnamese American families anxiously prepare for one of the most important cultural festivals from their homeland – Lunar New Year. From preparing auspicious New Year foods, to buying red envelopes that would later hold crisp dollar bills, Chinese and Vietnamese immigrants carry out generations of cultural traditions in a foreign land, hoping that these traditions would survive through their children as the family assimilates to the new and exotic
