Celebrate Chinese Lunar New Year of the Goat 4725 with Janet Cam

All through China and the world families gather for the most important holiday in the Chinese culture. Chinese New Year celebrations in the year of the Goat 4725 begins February 5th and lasts for 16 days concluding with the Lantern Festival on February 20th.  The Chinese Lunar New Year holiday was placed on the UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity list in 2024.

Janet Cam will be cooking the celebratory dishes of her mother and grandmother she prepares every year for her adopted family of friends. The dish all the family looked forward to is Popo’s Poached Chicken. The menu will include 1000 Year Egg and Pickles, Stir Fried Baby Bok Choy with Mushroom, Longevity Noodles and Pound Cake with Crème de Marron and Ginger will be part of the menu. Upgrade or stay the course exploring various condiments including soy sauce, oyster sauce and chili crisp for taste, quality and value. A curated wine tasting and beverages for the holiday will be served.

Janet Cam is a Culinary Strategist and wine expert, best known as the co-founder of DC’s storied restaurant, Le Pavillon, the first nouvelle cuisine restaurant in the U.S., honored with Wine Spectator’s Grand Award for their wine list. Cam provides consulting services to restaurant and hospitality businesses. She conducts wine tastings for both public and private concerns. Associated with the James Beard Foundation, The Smithsonian Food History Project’s advisory group, the Kitchen Cabinet. October 2026 she will launch FOH Front of House, the first certified wine, food hospitality program for the University of Maryland at Eastern Shore at the Shady Grove campus. The class is open to the public–hospitality students and foodies who want a peak behind the curtain are welcomed.