This year especially (2021, pandemic Year 2), will be unlike any other Tết before it. Of course, we’d still have celebrate here at home with a smaller Lunar New Year family dinner, and occasionally one of us siblings would go with our parents to a local Tết party put on by the Edmonton Vietnamese Association, but it was never quite like the Tết parties we’d hold at home, or attend at family friends’ homes, as kids. It’s something my parents would look forward to each year. San Jose, if you don’t know, well because why would you lol, is home to the largest number of Vietnamese people in any city outside of Vietnam itself, which makes it a popular North American spot to converge for Lunar New Year celebrations. Once my brothers and I became adults though, my parents changed their New Year traditions and started flying down to San Jose to ring in Tết with their friends. For years growing up, I remember Vietnamese Lunar New Year (Tết) always involved big gatherings, visits to the temple, and a lot of really, really good food.
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