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Off-Ramp

Welcoming Chinese New Year with 500,000 firecrackers and Miss Chinatown

By Off-Ramp Staff
Published Jan 28, 2012
Posing with the kitchen god.
Posing with the kitchen god.
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Incense at a shrine in Chinatown.
LA Chinatown: Teo Chew Association's Chinese New Year shrine.
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Shopkeeps in Chinatown celebrate the New Year.
Shopkeeps in Chinatown celebrate the New Year.
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The lion.
The lion.
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A Chinese dragon
A Chinese dragon.
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Lettuce hanging above the doorway of the Teo Chew Association, part of the Chinese New Year observation.
Lettuce hanging above the doorway of the Teo Chew Association, part of the Chinese New Year observation.
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Welcoming Chinese New Year with 500,000 firecrackers and Miss Chinatown
Even if you're not Asian and never celebrate the Lunar New Year (we entered the Year of the Dragon Monday), how can you refute the holiday's traditions: forgive grudges, pay off debts, clean the house, remember your past, and light firecrackers? Off-Ramp host John Rabe went to LA's Chinatown, heard the noise of half a million firecrackers, and talked Miss Chinatown 2011 Shirley Zhang.

Even if you're not Asian and never celebrate the Lunar New Year (we entered the Year of the Dragon Monday), how can you refute the holiday's traditions: forgive grudges, pay off debts, clean the house, remember your past, and light firecrackers? Off-Ramp host John Rabe went to LA's Chinatown, heard the noise of half a million firecrackers, and talked Miss Chinatown 2011 Shirley Zhang.

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