My wife and I were talking about creating our own holidays, as a queer interracial couple. I take issue with my cultural traditions (lunar new year and Christmas) as I’m deprogramming evangelical Chinese Christianity from my life. So I decided that for lunar new year every year we will have a Pineapple Festival.
I will make pineapple tarts, then tepache, then pollo en chicha.
I started this last year:
https://buttondown.com/skinnylatte/archive/year-of-the-dragon/
Pineapple (Ong Lai) in Hokkien means prosperity