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Today is my dad’s birthday. In China, “longevity noodles” would be eaten on birthdays because the long noodles symbolize long life.
In my family we continued this tradition by always eating noodles on birthdays. Some times it would be Chinese noodles, other times it would be spaghetti, as long as it was noodles. Spaghetti with white clam sauce is a dish I often make for my birthday. I always eat noodles to celebrate a birthday of anyone in my family and have taught this tradition to Karen. We’ll be eating noodles this evening.
A friend of mine, Jackie Urbanovic, illustrated a children’s book called Spaghetti Eddie.
She decided to portray the family as Chinese American because I once told her about our tradition of eating noodles. She sent me an autographed copy of the book. Natalie likes us to read it to her when she goes to bed.
