[Kids Try]

[Chinese New Year's Food]

Hello!

What's going on, you guys?

Um, wait, what'd you ask?

Do you know why I brought you all here today?

Chinese New Year!

Ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding.

Knew it!

I'm a rabbit.

What does that mean?

Oh, uh, I think it has something to do with, like, the month that, like, each month that you were born.

Okay, so Ethan's talking about something called the Chinese Zodiac.

I have no idea what I am.

I'm the water dragon.

So, do you guys know what Chinese New Year is?

It's like a new year, but for Chinese?

Well, I guess, like, there's no fireworks, but you do have bigger dinners.

Obviously, there's, like, the best Chinese food, and you just get together with friends and family, so, yeah.

Do you celebrate Chinese New Year, Ethan?

Yeah, I do.

It's all about removing the old and welcoming the new.

That's sad.

Why is that sad?

Because, like, everything old goes bye-bye and into the dust, and you're like, "See ya!".

Can we get to the food already?

-Yeah! - Ooh, I'd love to.

Does anybody know how to say close your eyes in Mandarin?

(speaking Chinese)

(gibberish)

That sounded close to me!

Close your eyes!

-Smells good! -It smells so good.

- Mm. - I wanna open my eyes.

I love, I love that.

The first dish I'm going to introduce are the dumplings.

Yum!

Grab a dumpling, put it on your plate.

A dumpling.

Mm, I like this stuff.

They should, like, make a chocolate outside layer and then put chocolate, like, pudding in it and stuff.

Okay, I gotta steal one dumpling.

Sorry, you guys.

-No, No, you can't! -Our territory!

We're gonna move on to this next dish, which I want you guys to try, which are the Longevity Noodles, also known as "Chang Shou Mian."

Ethan, am I pronouncing that right or not at all?

Mm, well, for the accent, not at all.

Um, no offense, but, um, I've never heard of them, so.

I swallowed it whole.

GG, what are you doing?

Ah.

You know how we were talking about the Chinese Zodiac earlier?

-Yeah. -Yeah.

So, this year is the gonna be the Year of the Rat.

I saw a red raccoon once.

Not the same.

In honor of the Year of the Rat, we are going to release ten rats into the studio.

What?!

No, no, no, no!

Do it, do it, do it!

Okay, okay, I'm not gonna do that.

Chill, chill.

I wouldn't do that.

I wanna do it.

Let's move on to the next dish, which is the steamed fish.

Ow!

Okay.

But it's a fish with an eye and a mouth!

-We're not gonna eat -Oh, you're gonna eat it, all right.

No, no, we are not.

So, at the same time.

-Okay. -Everyone!

-One, two, three. - Three.

It's disgusting.

It's bitter.

But, hey, we shouldn't say, like, really, really disgusting, because people eat this.

I know, I said no offense, it's kinda disgusting.

All right, we're gonna move on to the next dish, which is in those little cups.

It's called "Nian Gao."

Oh, I know what that is.

Ethan, am I saying that right?

Yeah, except for the accent.

"Nian Gao."

[Gibberish]

How do you dig into this?

It's, like, a little sweet, it's not sour.

-Like really sticky Jell-O. - Yeah, yeah. -Like the stickiest Jell-O you ever had.

How do I get this off?

Get off.

Get off!

We're gonna move on to the last thing on the table.

Now, let's all take an orange from the bottom.

Timber!

I have one last thing to give you guys.

I'm gonna guess, um, ice cream?

And open your eyes.

Oh, I know what these are.

In Chinese, we call them "Hong Bao."

This is "Hong Bao," like Ethan said, or known as Red Pockets, sometimes.

And they're full of lucky money to give to kids.

It's a one-dollar bill.

Okay, is that not enough for you, Clara?

It's one dollar!

You put it together, it's only, like, four dollars.

Take my little money(s).

What was your favorite part of Chinese New Year, you guys?

Eating food!

But which food?

Definitely not that.

-Dumplings! -Dumplings!

Do you wanna teach everybody how to say good-bye in Mandarin?

- Um, (speaks Chinese)

That's five in Chinese.

If you didn't know.