This Saturday, I joined the Asian Student Association and the Association of International Students as they held a Lunar New Year celebratory brunch at Sang Kee, a restaurant in Philadelphia.

The brunch was excellent. There was so much great food, and both the restaurant and the club were so accommodating to people who were vegetarian or vegan which was really nice of them. We ate with other members of the Bryn Mawr community, had a reserved section all to ourselves and cheered when the food came.

And boy, did they deliver.

The food. There was supposed to be a joke somewhere in there.

Placed on a fancy contraption that moved the food to different ends of the table, we had spring rolls, duck, fried rice, and actually so. much. more.

see if you can spot a fellow bmcbanter blogger!

The brunch was lots of fun and, in tradition with the celebration of Chinese New Year, at the end of the dinner, we were each awarded with a red envelope…

consisting of a coupon for $5 off our next purchase at the restaurant 😀

Some people thought that signaled the end of the lunch and left… but those who did made a mistake since the best was saved for last (well not the best – everything was so good).

Dessert is so great, it is my reward for eating healthy food

After that, we had a couple minutes to walk around in the city, well, mostly Chinatown since it was really too cold, and we had too little time to venture elsewhere. My friends and I ended up at Tea Do, a place that serves great bubble tea.

the only full one on the table belonged to KV’16 who wasn’t there and that’s the only reason it was left alone.

We drank our tea, had a game of Jenga where we made up a few rules, left our mark in that restaurant and we then got on the bus and headed back to Bryn Mawr!

But that would not be the end of my ~culture saturday~

That same night was the SAS Culture Show!

The performances were wonderful and moving and beautiful, everyone’s clothes were so gorgeous, and the music was wonderful, as was seeing all the friends from the Philadelphia area who came to check out the performances.

Thanks to the affinity groups for a great weekend!