I was born in the year of the Monkey, my father on the Rat’s and we celebrated the Golden Pig with a nice present that “should” bring us fortune and money.
Unfortunately for me, Miffu and now Aurore, Chinese New Year is not very popular in Spain. In a big city like Barcelona there’s not an “official” celebration and even Chinese restaurant do not change their menus on this date.
Fortunately for us, we are ex-pats from Hong Kong but we have very good friends there: The 9j Clan.
They have sent us a complete set of goodies to let us feel like at home. A Mandarin orange tree (tangerine / 柑) , (our preferred Hotel and fruit that match our caps’ colours), several decoration papers with goodwill and fortune words on it, firecrackers (some special ones) and a lot of goodies that made us very happy.
But the party have just started now…

Our friends from wifiblanes.com love Japanese culture and a friend of them knows well the Japanese community in Barcelona.
The event is organized by SUIYOKAI (An organization that joins most of the Japanese companies that are operating in Spain) and has the support of the Japanese Consulate in Barcelona.
Many people dressed especially for the event and of course I did. As you know my sister Miffo was living in Japan for several months and she has great knowledge about Japanese Culture and Traditions. Unfortunately me and my parents are not so brilliant and sometimes we make big mistakes because of our ignorance.
Anyways we have a GREAT time there. We miss our time in Japan badly, and we are willing to return there shortly and to visit our friends from Cafemiffy.
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It looks like if it was yesterday when, in my first visit to one of the nicest cities I have been, I saw her face in a Fortress store. Immediately I knew that I won’t depart from Hong Kong without her.
Now four years after that I feel sorry about not have being able to travel to her home city this year. Soon we will be there with her sister Miffu – who doesn’t like to appear a lot in this blog- and Aurore Marie – Miffa’s twin sister that joined her after and extensive research made by Miffa and the best private eye Bunny from HK (9J)
We missed our friends Chairoko and Kiiroko as well as Nijntje, but this time I decided to buy a nice cake to avoid criticism about my home made one.







