Ringing in the Year of the Rabbit and the Cat

This weekend is party time and not just because it’s Super Bowl weekend. For Southern California’s many Asian communities, it’s the annual celebration of the Lunar New Year. While L.A.’s Chinatown has long been the focus of New Year celebrations, newer Asian communities are also forging their identities with their own unique celebrations. For the Vietnamese community, it’s the Year of the Cat (the Chinese are celebrating the Year of the Rabbit), and in Garden Grove the Vietnamese community will hold its annual three-day Tet festival (full name, Tet Nguyen Dan, which translates to “Feast of the First Morning”). http://www.latimes.com/theguide/events-and-festivals/la-et-guidefeature3-20110203,0,1511930.story