Happy Chinese New Year! After a very satisfying New Year’s Eve dinner with my family last night, we woke up early to visit a couple of Buddhist temples around the city to pray to various buddhas and bodhisattvas, and pay honor to my ancestors. It’s often said that the “religion” of Hong Kong is more accurately described as a hodgepodge of East Asian Buddhism, Confucianism, ancestor worship, and good old superstition 🙂 My family and I also visited a few relatives to wish them a happy new year, and of course, exchange red envelopes! This will be the year of the ram, which also happens to be my zodiac symbol. Unfortunately, this is actually considered unlucky (more superstition) so I’ll have to be careful this year…