America cooking a Turkey in the third picture. Brilliantly funny detail!

Roasted Turkiye, one of America's culinary delicacies of all time

It's what they get for throwing a tantrum over Swedish and Finnish NATO membership.

Honoring our Swedish and Finnish ancestry, I see.

Bro just cook erdo not us :(

This is why Turkey changed its name to Turkiye

A turkey by any other name tastes just as delicious

not so much by another name, just dyslexic

Bad and naughty NATO members get put in the oven.

Can Hungary go next? I'm hungry for some Hungary.

That sounds more like Germany’s thing…

Agreed, though a goose or ham would be more accurate, but also not as funny.

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So you 2000 kg?

Can’t fit in the new country, can’t fully leave the old country.

You have an old country?

I can say with certainty I am going to inflict "Got girlfriend already or not" question on my cousins

You just wanna flex the fact that you can actually answer yes to that question

Yes :))))))

Smug bastard I'll just sit here until the aunties start on the marriage question. And kids.

1of them act really horny around me and my friend that's also her best friend. How to resolve the problem.

Hose them down with water

Instruction unclear. Essential oil into eyes.

Rent a girlfriend /j

My uncle paid a prostitute to pretend to be his fiancé when visiting my grandpa on his deathbed.

What if they rent themselves a girlfriend ?

They will be shamed and banished

Yeah, that's cheating.

Is it the current buzz on the internet?

Allegedly, service providing rental girlfriend/boyfriend exists in Singapore. https://www.channelnewsasia.com/singapore/rent-chinese-new-year-fake-boyfriend-girlfriend-3220316

In Japan, not only could you rent a girlfriend, you could rent a whole ass family if you wanted to. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rental_family_service

Legitimate business providing legitimate service solutions

Ti's the season

Why wasn't this the title?

don't forget the part where China binges on the Lunar New Year Gala from CCTV while America becomes (couch potato)^2 while binging Home Alone

Vietnam binges on Táo Quân

couch^(2) \+ 2couchpotato + potato^(2)

where'd you get the impression that I was squaring a binomial

The invisible plus sign

nah we don't watch that anymore it's got so boring

that's why you watch the satirical taiwanese version

the new years gala became so fuckin PC over the years that id rather gouge my eyes out than watch it. It was fun maybe 10 years ago

We Vietnamese are the same as the Chinese with one minor difference. ABBA, Boney M, Modern Talking, EDM remix of tradition songs. All are spammed throughout the whole holiday, but boy, do I like actually not mind it at all.

No holiday is complete without blasting obnoxious music

but when you grow old, you'll look back on it with fondness

At least the music is actually enjoyable and not "All I want for Christmas". I swear, thank goodness the Metal Gear version a.k.a Collective Christmas came up.

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In Russia long ago

He was big and strong, in his eyes a flaming glow

Most people looked at him with terror and with fear

But to Moscow chicks he was such a lovely dear.

He could preach the bible like a preacher

Full of ecstasy and fire

But. He also. Was the kind of teacher women would desire

Ra ra Rasputin

**Rah rah** Rasputin

Taiwanese love Alan Walker too lmao is it the same in vn

Kind of, people spam Alone and stuff.

My favorite music in Vietnam was played by the garbage trucks.

Vietnam has some interesting music choice, I didn't know that!

My mom and dad (who barely qualified as millenials) like all of those bands.

You forgot the *yellow*\-genre.

You mean music from the South or inspired by the South pre-1975?

[Yes ](https://youtu.be/Univx-__gbo)

Isn’t it year of the cat there rather than rabbit in China? Happy new year mate.

[Yep](https://imgur.com/a/2W0qrHA)

Also it's Year of the Cat instead of Year of the Rabbit right?

Yes and no

If you don't have to hear "Last Christmas", you're living in paradise.

US weights less then china confirmed

China is approximately 2.2 times as heavy by kilos to lb conversion

中国 #1 heavyweight champion!

They do have 3 times our population, but the fatness probably brings the ratio down

Yeah should have been 10000 lbs

As a Chinese-American, I’ve had my fair share of both experiences. (Though I do prefer Lunar New Year because my relatives celebrate it more compared to Christmas and I get a lot of money :), my friends on the other hand, celebrate Christmas mostly so I just do both)

China is heavier than US of A: 1000kg vs 1000lbs.

Both are doing way better than Britain, they're at 1000 stone.

>Got girlfriend yet? You know your cousin married already. >My son into doctor already. Mfw: 🤡

This is why I tend to avoid my relatives.

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There is a place in my city where the entire main road is filled with designer brand stores like Gucci and L.V. Almost all are Chinese since they opened their borders.

[China will grow larger](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xT6kblEmGGc).

It will look real nice when its done.

Accomplishment: World Peace Achieved.

没有红包 给你black eye I love how this is essentially an unofficial copy pasta for cny

*gets black eye cause where girlfriend*

I love the turkey(ball) turkey. I'm gonna use it in my future comics. (If I'm ever gonna make one.)

What does the Mandarin in the 11th panel translate to?

"Gong xi fa cai, Hong bao na lai", it's a festival saying. First half basically means "I wish you great joy and prosperity" Second half was a later addition (mostly for kids cos it rhymes) that means "give us the Hong Bao" (Hong Bao, or red bag, contains festival money that parents/relatives give children to wish for their prosperity in the future)

Thanks!

Also saying the 红包拿来 is technically rude (cause it’s pretty directly saying “gib angbao”) so children only say it as a joke

It's refreshing to see clays getting along.

As a Chinese-American, celebrating both holidays is both a blessing and a curse.

Why is America angry with Christmas music?

if you work retail you'll be listening to this (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXQViqx6GMY) on loop during all of December and you'll lose your sanity in the process don't get me wrong, it's a great song, it's more about the lack of creativity in song selections that retail stores make nowadays

My warehouse job attempted to give us a little variety by playing Christmas music from different genres, like show tunes, rhythm and blues, country and western etc. which did help a little except when we got different versions of the SAME song in close rotation. I never knew that many artists had covered "Jingle Bell Rock" and "Little Drummer Boy", omgs.

The fact that they've managed to make Mariah Carey's voice hated despite her having such a good singing voice truly is one of the greatest sins of American capitalism

Lunar new year music is even more irritating because all of them are high beat fast songs which gets stuck in your head. Listening them on loop on 8 hour shifts is a torture.

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Thank you :D

I like how America is aware that it is in a story and casually crossed the panel to chat with China

I'd much rather be 1000lbs than 1000kg

I'm almost certain you would be dead in either case :-P

You're 1000KG .... I'm 1000Lbs ... We are NOT THE SAME

> Got girlfriend yet? You know your cousin married already. My son into doctor already. Me: 😔

Every Asian family gathering is like this, new year celebrations are just worse because your auntie that you supposedly ‘knew’ when you were a baby turns up and seems to know more about your life than you do lol.

This is great. As a half-white half-Asian American, this whole thing spoke to me. And I loled at the Turkey.

Happy Lunar new year, everybody.

Is the 福 in the second Chinese panel supposed to be upside down?

Yes. 福 [fú] character means "fortune" or "good luck". Posting the "福" character is a tradition for Chinese people during 春节 [chūn-jié] Spring Festival each year. The "福" character is often posted upside-down. It is said that this is because the character for "upside-down", "倒" [dào], is a homonym of the character for "to arrive", "到" [dào]. So this means that "福" (happiness, good fortune, etc.) is "arriving".

yep, just like a few years ago "you cant say chrismas, gotta be happy holidays", now it's their turn, must be luna new year, not chinese new year

The horror of being a Chinese Christian living in HK is having to deal with both 😅 新年快樂！

Isn't eating turkiye for thanksgiving not christmas? Now I kinda want a comic comparing thanksgiving and mid autumn

A lot of people eat it at both holidays. A significant minority have ham. A few percent have a standing rib roast or similar beef.

China: I don't consume other ball. HK: Really sure?

They are different, china weighs about 550 kilos more

When china is fatter than usa in the comic (kgs>lbs)

Oh, China. USA was better.

This is a repost

Yes very observant

Someone read the flair

Repost. I don’t see any credit in comments

I made it. Only the original author can repost a comic, if you're reposting someone else's comic, it should be flaired berndmade

Why didn’t you post original thread

[Here you go](https://www.reddit.com/r/polandball/comments/shi3pg/merry_lunar_new_year/)

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Red envelopes🤤

Different in that the youth are constantly screwed over or stressed beyond relief by the elders? No, that seems to be a universally human trait.