How We Celebrate Chinese New Year as an International Couple | Vlog
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- Chinese New Year Vlog | Food, Decor, & Traditions in Hong Kong
The Year of the Ox is here! Let's celebrate, eat, and carry on traditions! Here's a glimpse of what it's like during this very important holiday in Hong Kong.
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Can we appreciate Elbow-san being an active part of the video? When did this happen?? Haha Happy new year guys! Love from Argentina ❤️❤️🇦🇷
Yes, amazing! Thank you Tom
It happen just now! lol
He's a supportive sweet husband for sure.
Couldn't believe this is happening too!
YAAAS! 🙌👍
Such a cute and loving couple!
The peach blossom looks so beautiful, its truly wonderful how you both celebrate each others hoildays and traditions, wishing both of you happiness and health in this new year 😃
Thank you so much 🥰 🥰 I hope this year is a great one for you too!
Thank you 🥰
Right? I remember Christmas time and Taylor being all excited and festive and Tom just going along with all of it 😂
Chinese propaganda is so beautiful
We celebrate midsummer in Sweden ❤️ Traditions include sleeping w 7 different flowers under your pillow so that you will dream of your true love, eating good food like fish & boiled potatoes and dancing around the midsummer pole which is supposed to be a symbol for fertility ❤️
Actually, there is no historical evidence of the midsummer pole being a symbol of fertility. That's just a myth. But yeah, Midsummer is a really nice celebration and I recommend everyone to visit Sweden (and other cultures that celebrate it) during midsummer.
Too bad we dont really follow the tradition anymore, most people just get wasted lol.
I wanna dream of true love. What are these flowers? Are there specific types of flowers and which time is the best time to do this? jk.......... But I would really like to know for experimental purposes.......
Taylor really be doing everything from filming to cooking to modelling to doing tiktoks
Shes one of the real content creators on tiktoks that is so underrated
And she does so much research for her youtube videos
I absolutely love watching her so much
I just don't know how people hate on other cultures when every single culture has such beautiful traditions
I wish we celebrated new year’s like this 🤧 New Years is just an excuse to get wasted and watch a ball drop in the states. This is so beautiful 💗💗
Says a lot about Western culture tbh😣
My family counts 12 grapes for wishes. And we sweep the house, not much of a celebration but it's something.
13:28 Interesting fact, Elbow San have a very unique family name 聶, it composes of three ears 耳, it literally means "whispering in ear" in Chinese
SEEING YOU CELEBRATE THIS MAKES ME SO HAPPY!!! Im chinese and this time of year is my favorite!! It isn't the same as it has been in past years because we havent done the full extended family gathering but it makes me super happy to see other people also celebrate it!!!
I’ve really enjoyed learning more and diving deeper into the celebrations. It’s such a beautiful time of year 🥰 Happy Year of the Ox!
I didn't know about the blooming tree tradition, that was so beautiful. It seems like a lovely thing to wake up to every day, seeing new flowers forming.
thank you for sharing and teaching everyone our beautiful culture! as a chinese that grew up outside of my hometown i really appreciate how educational ur videos can be ❤️keep up the good work
Yes! I'm French and I don't know much about Chinese culture, but this video was such an entertaining way of learning ! Thank you Taylor
I havnt spend CNY in hong kong in SO many years, I was thinkin the traditions were gradually fading away. You dont understand how HAPPY it makes me you guys are keeping the traditions alive
If I need to unplug from the day, I love watching her. I not only learn about this culture, which is amazing, but something about this sweet young lady helps to calm my mind. She’s so sweet and absolutely never wants to offend anyone. She has a gift. I wish them both good luck, fertility, health and love. ☮️❤️😊👩❤️👨
I watched this through tears sometimes how much I miss Hong Kong catches me off guard and my heart breaks. Thank you for this vlog so much you brought back memories.
Too bad most people can't go back😔
🥰🥰🥰
Literally me too, I have a peach blossom tree in our family garden and every Chinese New Year it blooms and I think of all my family in HK 🥺 I miss it so much
In Finland we celebrate midsummer. Midsummer time we have white nights when sun doesn't set. Also we have bonfires and everyone goes to the midsummer sauna.
Chinese New Year looks so fun. I never knew that people put those pretty pink trees inside their house. It’s so festive. Fun time shopping too. Happy New Year everybody!😀🎉
Taylor I just want to say I've been following you for a while now and I find you so relatable, I live in Toronto and my husband is Cantonese as well, now he even asks me if you released new videos to watch together 😂 this video reminded him about this beautiful time when he was growing up...we love your energy and personality . wishing you health and happiness in this new year~! ❤️
I'm from Cape Town, South Africa. New Years here is usually a 3 day event starting on the last day of the year where many people will clean and even paint the outside of their homes, and ending on the 2nd of jan because traditionally my people the Cape Malay celebrate 2 new years, the 1st is real new years and the 2nd of Jan is what we call "tweede nuwe jaar" (2nd new year) because back during slavery we were not given the day of or allowed to celebrate new years on the 1st and was only given 1 day off a year on the 2nd. So the 2nd became a huge celebration with a parade and festival (think Madi Gras), alot of singing and dancing, live bands in the streets and alot of food.
Also from Cape Town ☺️ moved here from the EC years ago and tweede nuwe jaar was the first thing I thought of when we moved to stricter lockdown again. As far as I know, there isn’t much like it around the rest of the country
Tom looks so happy. I think you taking interest in his culture makes him feel appreciated (^: such a good wife
In Norway, one of the most important days are "Grunnlovsdagen" (Constitution day) the 17th of May. People dress up in traditional bunads (folk dresses) and we have large parades with marching bands, and its mostly for kids. We eat "koldtbord" and drink Champaign for breakfast. Family and friends come together. Its also big day for the "russ". Russetid is the tradition for the people who graduates from high school. They dress in red or blue pants for a whole month until the 17th, do pranks, decorate and drive around in "russebil"/busses, and party a lot.
Thank you for showing this beautiful celebration of the Chinese New Year!
Drink champagne for breakfast, wow! 😆❤️ thank you for sharing!
Yes! I have been waiting for this video. Happy new lunar year to you and your family 🧧🎉
@@zulal2498 seit 2016 xD
Wow Hazel ist auch hier :D
Hi Hazel. Dir auch ein tolles Neujahr ❤️ Wünsche euch dreien alles Gute
The tree blossomed so quickly I'm predicting a lot of romance and growth for you this year. Happy New Year!!
We don't have any Asian heritage but I love exploring Asian culture and I've celebrated Lunar New Year to at least some extent with my daughter since she was little. We are both ox so we did a little extra celebrating this year since it's our year. 😊🐃🧧
Before the lock down I went through the chinese new year in Chicago. It was great eating Dim Sum, the parade and bringing home sweets.
Over the past 3 years, I started implementing traditions for Chinese New Year and learning all about my Chinese heritage. Thank you for educating others about this awesome holiday!
This was so sweet to watch, I love how interested you are in each others' cultures.
Where did you get your red cardigan with cows all over it? It’s absolutely adorable and such a gorgeous red!!
Also here for this 😂 it’s so cute!
She posted on insta that it was from Zara, but it seems to be HK exclusive? I couldn't find it on the U.S. website. :(
@@JCQLNJRDY probably since it's red for a lucky new year and cows for year of the ox, they must've thought it was too lunar new year themed that we wouldn't want cute things :,(
@@JCQLNJRDY I couldn’t find it either 😭
Love the cow sweater!! ❤️
After all you have been through you have grown into an amazing woman and wife wishing all the best for you and your life thank you for all you share
The "Swiss" candy is a fruit chew called Sugus and it's called "Swiss" candy cause it was made by a Swiss company at one point.
Oh I love that cherry blossom tree, it did actually bloom, it’s mesmerizing
I can see why you fell in love with Elbow-San 🤗
How fun!! When Tom said „swiss candy“ I was expecting anything BUT actual Sugus!! 🤣🤣👍👍👍 Looove it!! I‘m swiss and it‘s true, those are swiss!!
We call that 瑞士糖in Cantonese, which literally translates to Swiss candy! I grew up having those during Lunar New Year. I don’t think anyone actually knows the brand name Sugus tho haha
so funny. I love Sugus too. (also swiss) also had no idea these candies were popular in china 🍬
My guess was Ritter sport!
@@IsawsomethingniceCh it's not popular in china, my chinese friends don't even know about it. But very beloved in hong kong. hong kong people love to eat it during the CNY :) tasty
I've been feeling so low and down lately but your videos have me so inspired. I'm living in Japan rn and part of the reason why is because of your vidsss.
Really enjoyed this video. I loved hearing little snip bits of your husbands upbringing. It’s so nice that you celebrate his culture traditions with so much love. ❤️
Always love how taylor cooks asian inspired food. Even tho she's from s different culture, she really embraced the asian culture in full effect. Feels like she's more Asian than me 🤔
I live in israel- the most important day is Yom Kippur, but thats the day of attonement and boring and we dont eat anything :P BUT this weekend is a super fun holiday and its my favorite, and usually i dont share but i thought, hey, most of taylors viewers dont know this holiday exists.
Very devout people celebrate for the whole month of this holiday, called Purim.
theres a bunch of stuff we do but the most important is to have fun. literally, have fun and laugh. Get so drunk and so tired from partying and laughing that you cant even begin to explain the difference between good and evil. Another thing we do is have a huge feast and give gifts with foods from different categories to hand out to people.
Its also heavily encouraged to dress up so different that nobody would know who you are! some people even coordinate their costumes with their gifts to match a theme!!
The most important though is to just be happy, and the whole country is celebrating their butts off for no real reason
that’s super cool!
Im half mizrachi half Asian in New York (i gues im double east then lol). I did not talk to my family in awhile but are thry doing anything for purim this year because from Corona.
Thank you for sharing. I didn't know this, very nice 👍
@@紗多瑠 as of right now there is no lockdown though there are restrictions. Families can have feasts together and most people plan on gathering at parties. my best friend is half ashki, half chinese! she gets best of both worlds
@@bigkh3 oh that is good to hear. I dont know much about real ashkinazim because in America half of them are like regular white people and other half is charedi.
I love that Sharla and Taylor upload on the same day 😍🥺
I love Thanksgiving here in the USA because people share family recipes. It shows what traditions were passed down from generations even if families are not originally from the USA.
YES!
Was just wondering if u’re still awake cuz i missed u and wanted to send u a message, then decided to watch this video instead so i dont bug u. Kinda awesome that we can watch videos of each other and feel like we hangin together hehe. Still miss u a little tho, i guess 💖
seeing a family of animals during the new year is a good omen! those porcupines are so cute
I love seeing how holidays and observances are celebrated throughout the world. Such an amazing video.
I honestly found the aesthetic of this vlog so, so beautiful and relaxing 🥰 thank you so much for sharing about Chinese New Year! I don’t have much exposure to the holiday here in the UK so was fascinating to learn more ☺️
Ahaha, you're so cute Taylor, you remembered how to say dried sausage in Canto because your hubby likes it. XD
Thank you for sharing this celebration with us. It was really interesting to see the new years being celebrated in HK.
Christmas cactus Is what we always had for the blooming on Christmas. It blooms every year in the winter beautiful red blossoms.
Happy New Year!
May all your wishes come true! And may this year be good to everyone! 🎉 🎊 🎈 🎉🎊🎈
I really enjoyed this. Everything about this was interesting! I definitely learned a lot from this vlog. Thank you! And Happy Chinese New Year! 🐮🧧
You’re cultural videos are amazing and atheistically pleasing. I’m half Asian so I love your perspectives as well. So fun.
These are my favorite kind of videos from you! Showing the culture of your home and relationship. Hope you both had a happy new year! We got an orchard plant and some mandarins for lunar new year 🧧
I'm so glad that Tom was showing you (and us all) the things about his culture i think it's really beautiful that both of you respect and love your traditions so much and that you both are curious about each others traditions. Thank you for sharing this with us so so so much!!!!! and happy new year ❤️
I really love learning about Hong Kong's culture/ Chinese culture through your videos!! It makes me want to learn so much more and take part in it! Would love to visit Hong Kong one day because it looks beautiful!
I know this is late but HAPPY CHINESE NEW YEAR TO YOU GUYSSSS!😄❤❤
Happy New Year! ❤️🧧🎊
You & Tom are so sweet, he seems to be coming more out of his shell in your videos! Happy Chinese New Year, love your content, wishing you many happy blessings💕✨
Yes. Good to see him filming
I´m Swedish and live in Sweden. My favorite holiday is Midsummer. It´s in the middle of the summer. It rains like 99% on Midsummer, typical Swedish summer haha. We eat almost the same food on all of our holidays. The food is different from family to family but Swedish meatballs is a must. We eat a lot of salmon, herring, sausages, meat, boiled potato's with dill. I always wear a flower crown, that´s an old tradition. Not everyone wears it but I love flowers so it´s a must for me. Many families go to a park where they have a big pole that looks like a cross but on each side there is two big rings. It´s covered with flowers and everyone is dancing around it. In Swedish it´s called Midsommarstång. You don´t have to celebrate Midsummer with your family, it can be with friends as well :)
Thank you for sharing these beautiful moments, i' was smiling alone at home with my dog!💗🙂🦔
I absolutely love how much you embrace the culture. It's so beautiful and heart warming. All the best for you both for the new year and always Xx
Wow this made me nostalgic for New Years with my family, especially the canto. Happy you guys still got to experience all the yummy foods and decorating!
I'm excited about the year of the ox I'm an ox. Happy Chinese new year Taylor and Tom!
I can't tell you how much joy this video gave me.
i'm so appreciative of your love and respect for chinese culture. your eagerness to learn about the lunar new year and share that is so nice. being chinese but without chinese parents, i'm learning a lot! thanks taylor & elbow-san!!
I think that in Bulgaria the biggest holidays are Easter, Christmas eve, Christmas and New Year. It sounds a bit too much I know but that's how it is. At Easter we go to church and we light a candle for health. We dye eggs and we "fight" with them. You choose a dyed egg and another person hits it with his egg (first with the top part, them the bottom) and whoever's egg doesn't break at the end wins and he will be the most healthy and wealthy. Not sure if other countries doest that but is really fun for both adults and children. Everyone brings their dyed eggs, they are so pretty and colorful. For Christmas Eve and Christmas the traditions are mostly in the foods we eat - traditional Bulgarian banitsa (pastry filled with cheese and eggs), sarmi (cabbage rolls) , meats, soups, homemade breads and sweets. If you live in a small village group of boys and men come to your house and sing Bulgarian carols and you give them some food for thank you. At New Year we have again lots of food and banitsa, but this time we hide a coin wrapped with foil inside and whoever gets it will be the most wealthy and lucky for the next year once again. Also we put fortunes on top and you choose a piece and you find out what fortune will the new year bring - health, money, love, adventure etc.
Every year at the 1st of January we used to invite friends to walk through the peak, this vid just brings so much memories ^^
So nice to see how other people celebrate this occasion globally!! 😊💞 Also I agree with Tom, collecting the red packets is definitely one of the highlights for me too hahah
Love when couples embrace mixed traditions and values.
Those nails are so gorgeous! They make me want to get my nails done too!
This is a fabulous documentary! It’s way beyond doing videos on TH-cam! Thank you for this.
i'm watching this video after i saw your last video of your fertility journal and omg!! so sweet that you bought an orchid for this year and it means fertility
I love this vlog. brings back such great memories. I lived in HK before but now in Canada and with the progressing years and family getting smaller, I don't get to experience the full CNY festivities anymore.
Your editing has become really good. I enjoyed the feel of this video.
I love this! I love how much you respect and do your best to learn the traditions of places you live. I hope you had a great new year!
Yes! I have been excited to also celebrate CNY as an interracial couple as well! Thanks for sharing & Happy new lunar year to you and your family!
Best of luck to both of you this year ❤️
You too! Hope this year is kind to you ❤️
Hong Kong seems like a beautiful country. Thank you for sharing.
HK is not a country
I hope that you, Tom, and Rosie all have a wonderful new year and that all your hopes and dreams come true!! 💖💖
I’m an Ox, and after this last year, I just know this will be a year of health, happiness and prosperity!
Such a pleasant Elbow-San feature!! You two are so wholesome and cute together!! 🥰 Loved seeing you shop around together!! Happy Chinese New Year to you both!! ❤️
Taylor, I loved the piano music played between 15:57 - 17:30. So relaxing and beautiful. Your respect for the traditions of Chinese New Year is heartwarming!!
Love it so much whenever taytay n elbowsan together in a vlog.. Such a lovely couple.. Love you lots tay!! 💖💖💖
Happy and healthy new year for everyone here! I loved this video but I felt like I wanted more, I hope I can experienced it myself in person one day 🤞
In America I feel like the tradition is to stay up New Years Eve, and just celebrate all into the next day. I really love that you guys celebrate for so long, and how you have things that mean so much. It’s really cool.
WONDERFUL joyous video ! Happy Year of the Ox... Loved Elbow sans participation. You both are so blessed. I hope 2021 is good for you both !!! ❤
dear taylor and tom,
新年快乐，万事如意 - HAPPY NEW YEAR & MAY YOU GET EVERYTHING YOU WISH FOR!!
Thank you for always writing such kind supportive comments, I really appreciate it Mary! Happy New Year! ❤️
Elbow-San wearing the Casey neistat “work harder” hoodie is EVERYTHING.
HAPPY NEW YEAR! ❣️🧧🐮
I moved from a huge city with millions of people to a "village" city that has 18000 people and i cried watching this video because i felt like i was there with you in the busy life ! Where everyone passing by is a person part of your story... i miss the busy city life xx enjoy it for all of us who cant !
I love the chaos of the market where they are getting snacks
I guess for me it’s the same: Christmas is the most important for me, and Chinese New Year the most important for my Chinese hubby ♥️
This was so fun for me to watch you immersed in Tom’s culture and living in Hong Kong. I’m the opposite where I moved from China to Canada and have learned about my fiancé’s culture and traditions.
Taylor, your videos never fail to make me smile and feel at peace. Thank you.
I love this vlog 🥰🥰❤️ I grew up in China and it made me so nostalgic!!! thank you for sharing this 🥺 and happy new year tay and Tom ✨
Happy New Year 🥰🧧
@@Taylor_R Thank you ❤️✨
Gong hei fat choy!! I can’t tell you how much I appreciate you making these videos. My partner is cantonese, but Born in Europe, and I’m not. We’re expecting and I can really tell he feels the need to get back in touch with his culture. Your video’s help me so much in understanding the customs/traditions and I hope we can pass this on to our unborn children and keep it ‘alive’ even though we’re overseas. Thank you and Tom!!
The celebration looks fabulous. I love the peach blossom tree I wish you had a time lapse camera on it to watch it express itself. Love your channel
Enjoyed watching it! So refreshing to watch Chinese culture. Respect and love ♡♡
Happy New Year! I think in the US, the most important holiday we celebrate is Christmas. My husband and I are not religious at all, but Christmas traditions are what we were both raised with. We usually go to his Mom's for Xmas because he has a large family, so they do a giant dinner where everyone brings food and a gift for a secret Santa exchange. Then at our house with just the two of us, I usually do a pot roast with roasted potatoes, rice, dinner rolls, salad... Just standard Xmas stuff. And we of course do our own gifts between the two of us.
Anyone else notice how long her hair is now?? It’s stunning! 🔥
For the most part I feel like western New Year is pretty tame but in Latin America we have a bunch of traditions and the holiday is far more family-oriented than in North America, I think some of them come from Spain. The big one is eating 12 grapes at the stroke of midnight while you make 12 wishes (for each month of the year) but there's also a whole bunch of different traditions depending on the region. We always have dried wheat and a full table to signify abundance in the coming year. There are some who wear red underwear for love or yellow for money. But my personal favorite is when we run around the block with luggage to bring travel opportunities in our next year!
I wish I could go to hk to celebrate, it still so festive even during the pandemic! Wishing u and your family a happy and healthy lunar new year 🧧!! 🐄🐮💜
Always love your videos they have such a peaceful vibe and always put me in a good optimistic mood, thank you ♥️
I am from Vietnam so I celebrated lunar new year too. We kind of celebrated like your video.
It was awesome to see Tom and Rosie in this video more! Thanks for such an informative video. Like you, my family is mixed, so we do a lot of Japanese and Korean new year's traditions as well as American. Though most of what you showed is different some are the same almost which is so interesting to me! Maybe they all have the same origin. Anyway, wishing you and family all the best in the new year.
I was wondering where you were Happy Lunar New Year to you two and Rosy!
Happy New Year ❤️
Stumbled upon your channel while getting out of the lockdown in Ontario.
Didnt know that they have Sephora in Hk, nice. Wish it was in Europe too. HK isnt a place for laid-back life but yet everytime I see clips like yours about CNY, I miss the city, the food, the convenience.
I live in Chile and the most expected holiday is the national holidays, where we celebrate the Independence Day. Usually we have 3 days free of work (the 17, 18 and 19 of September) but, depending on the calendar, we can even have 5 days free. Families and friends get together and make BIG barbecues and lots of Chilean dishes and drinks. I'm not Chilean but I love these festivities, people are always happy and spring is just starting so it's the perfect weather 💕
It's crazy to see you living an almost normal life. Lockdown is the worst.
Not sure where you live but my life has not changed much. Mask wearing, that's about it
@@CandycaneBeyond UK.
Been in some form of lockdown since October 😩
@@CandycaneBeyond I live in the states and we dont have a lot of mandatory lockdowns but are pretty divided between people who are not taking it seriously(ex: still going out for non essential things) and those who have been in lockdown since March
@@amorgan78 in Germany and UK we have complete Shutdown of everything non-essential. Meaning no restaurants, no fitness studios, cafés, schools, preschools, event locations, just everything is closed except for certain offices/ work places (which is heavily debated as well). So people don´t really have a choice not to follow the rules. The only thing people do is gather in too large groups outside with no distance or masks. and they can get fined for it.
Voluntary Lockdown does not work long-term, I hope the US will follow Asia´s and Euope´s example soon! Good luck
@@chxrl5067 tell me about it... I am so fed up with it, especially when other countries could manage it without full lockdown...