My dear friend Debbie is in town. (Woo-hoo!) We went out for Thanksgiving dinner with friends at an ex pat bar. Only 5/8ths of us were American (rounded out by Chinese, Italian, and Swedish) but the food was traditional & delicious and — some people’s jet lag not withstanding — the whole evening was great fun.
The Chinese translation of Thanksgiving is 感恩节 (“feeling thanks festival”) but our friend Nafees, who is spending the holiday back in the States, has been calling it 火鸡天 (“turkey day”). Debbie was tickled that the translation of “turkey” literally means “fire chicken”.