Enjoy your noodles the Thai way

Enjoy your noodles the Thai way

According to the Chinese calendar, we’ll be welcoming the Year of the Ox this Friday. Thanks to the pandemic and for the first time as long as I could remember, the Chinese New Year of 2021 is officially regarded as a national holiday.

At first, the announcement sounded strange to me but on second thought, it’s not.

Unofficially, the CNY has long been a holiday for most people I know. Even when I was in junior high school, which was almost four decades ago, every time this particular occasion arrived at least 75% of the students would not show up. By lunchtime, the school would allow those who did…