The Chinese New Year was welcomed on Teesside with a feast of activities at a local community centre today.
The Year of the Goat got off to a delicious start at Tees Valley Chinese Community Centre on North Ormesby Road, Middlesbrough, with more than 200 guests enjoying the finest Chinese cuisine from Hot Wok on Linthorpe Road, Middlesbrough, while being entertained with traditional dance and music.
Kew Lim, chairwoman of Tees Valley Chinese Community Centre, said: “It’s important for us to preserve our culture and our mother tongue. But our centre is not just for the Chinese community, we welcome everybody.
“This is the year of the mountain goat, it means we will have to work hard to survive and we must cooperate with people.
“People born in the Year of the Goat will be moderately humble, a little shy but very cooperative people.”
Line dance teacher Caroline Cooper, 42, praised the hospitality shown by the community.
She said: “Everybody is so hospitable and the food was very nice.”
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