Chinese is very complicated because the same characters can have different meanings depending on the context, similar to homographs in English.

Have you ever tried mixing the Chinese and Western breakfasts together?

Would you ask for your present two weeks before your actual birthday?

The family gets into an argument, debating whether Susan should sell Chinese food or Western food. Do you think that Susan is really trying to open a breakfast shop?

Susan has taken the breakfast sign from a store. What do you think she will do with it?

It's very easy to state the date in Chinese. All you need is the number plus the words "year," "month," and "day."

As one's day depends upon the morning, you might want to start waking up earlier.

What do you do when you can't go to sleep? Do you drink milk or do you count sheep?

Fighting jet lag is the worst. Miao stays up with Susan while she's attempting to adjust to the time change.

The mystery of the dumplings is that the person who eats the lucky dumpling with the coin filling will be the luckiest person in the coming year.

Since she's planning on becoming independent from her family, Susan will be staying with Miao's family long-term.

Miao's family is shocked when Susan says she'll stay at their house longer.

Coins are traditionally incorporated into the Chinese New Year dumplings with a symbolic meaning.

A tradition of Chinese New Year is to eat dumplings with family but there's also another tradition within the dumplings. Can you guess what it is?

Eating dumplings with different types of fillings is a traditional Chinese New Year activity.

There are different ways to ask someone his or her name. For people who are older than us, "nin" should be used, while "ni" should be used for younger people.

On their way home from the temple fair, Mai and Susan meet Mai's neighbor, Sister Liu.

With Susan staying with them for Chinese New Year, Miao's family feels a bit unsure how to act in front of the foreign guest.

People often do crazy things when they are drunk. What kind of show have you put on in that state?

When adjectives are used as predicates in Chinese, there are three forms: affirmative, negative and interrogative.

Although getting drunk can be fun, it just might get in the way of one's attempt to convey a positive image.

When Miao's uncle accidentally gets drunk in an attempt to keep up his image, how will his image fare?

While saying blessings is another Chinese Spring Festival tradition, one has to be careful of the blessings he or she chooses!

"Bài Nián" is a term for the Spring Festival tradition of paying visits to family and friends.