Eric's Beijing Diary

Had a New Year's Eve pizza party last night. Piro Pizza has a new delivery service. Took them two hours to get the pizza to us, and by the time they did, there wasn't much heat left. But people generally liked the pizza, so I guess it was an OK experiment. Give them a little time, they'll get it figured out. China, as you know, has two New Year's celebrations. The big one is Chinese New Year, but they do celebrate the regular one with the rest of the world. Chinese New Year is based on the lunar calendar. The one thing that distinguishes Chinese New Year is that the whole country goes home. Working people, especially, will go home for Spring Festival even if they don't see their families at all the rest of the year.