Banquet
Orange County's 13th Annual Moon Festival Banquet
In China and throughout many Asian countries people celebrate the Harvest Moon on the 15th day of the eighth month of their lunar calendar. This year, the Mid-Autumn festival falls on Wednesday, September 22, 2023 - but that's a school night! So please join your FCC-SoCal family in a weekend celebration of togetherness on Sunday, September 26, 4:30-7:00 pm at the Ten Ten Seafood Restaurant in Artesia. The festivities will include games and prizes for the kids and teens, traditional Chinese entertainment and great food, including mooncakes.
Year of the Tiger Banquets a Big Success
The Year of the Tiger roared into town with two banquets for FCC SoCal members and their guests on Feb 6th and 27th. Our annual tradition of gathering to celebrate and re-connect continued for its 13th year, though this time with a new committee at the helm. Many thanks to Jeri, Susan and Lee for making this a favorite event for so many years and giving the new bunch an easy template to follow.
Though the first banquet was smaller than in recent years with about 250 people, it was lovely to have a bit more elbow room and the opportunity to mingle with friends and actually hear them. The Lion Dance topped off the evening with a particularly thrilling performance with lots of interaction with the kids. Their high voltage energy led us all onto the bubble wrap for the loud dance of joy. Everyone had a huge grin on their faces watching the kids let loose with glee.
Chinese New Year Banquets - Save the Dates!
UPDATE: Event info now posted here (1st banquet) and here (2nd banquet).
Planning for Chinese New Year festivities is underway and we are hard at work to ensure that the ever-popular FCC-SoCal Chinese New Year tradition continues to be a favorite for all!
We are holding twin banquets on the first and last Saturdays in February – the 6th and the 27th. Registration materials will be emailed out by the first of the year. Chinese New Year falls on February 14th and the Golden Dragon Parade will be on February 20th.
Orange County’s 12th Annual Moon Festival Banquet
A fun time was had by all at Orange County’s 12th annual Moon Festival Banquet on October 4 held at the Ten Ten Seafood Restaurant in Artesia. To start off the event, families played a game in which every guest had a picture of their Chinese zodiac animal pinned to their back, and children ran about the large dining room trying to count up all the roosters, rats, dragons, etc. to win the grand prize, a giant stuffed panda. Perhaps it was predictable that pigs represented the largest group that turned out for the banquet, but there was a scattering of every type of animal, and kids had a great time trying to count them all up.
Lunar New Year Events
FCC-SoCal is delighted to welcome its new 2010 New Year Event Committee Co-Chairs: Mike and Kim Barrett, Karen Drew, Alice Goldstone and Albert Olson. For more information contact: [email protected].