18th Feb was Chinese New Year’s Eve. Because many people go back to their homes outside of Beijing, the streets were almost empty. Not many cars were on the road and factories were not running, so the air was very nice.
Following Chinese tradition, we went to a restaurant to eat dumplings.

We ordered dumplings with colored skin. All of them had a lot of vegetables inside. Yummy~.
They serve raw garlic with the dumplings. It looks wild to me…
The soup tastes like ramen pork soup.

These days I often see people walking around with red gift bags. Maybe they have tradition to give gifts to family for new year?