A Chinese New Year to remember

Kung hei fat choy! How did you celebrate?

This year is the year of the Ox. We celebrated it with many many meals, one of them being dim sum with the family (all 17 of us). After dim sum, some of the family members began feeling sick – diarrhea and throwing up. Yusuf also got sick, he threw up many times and 2 hours before his flight for his business trip, he was still shivering in bed! Turns out, it was something that the dim sum restaurant served that contained bacteria in it. Out of 17 people who went to dim sum, 14 got the bug!!! Through some investigation, we were able to narrow it down to a dessert dish that we had. It was so scary! Our cousin even lost 10 lbs because of this!

I was fortunate enough that I didn’t get sick. But this was truly a meal for the family to remember! It was not a good way to start the year!