Alongside the advent of each Lunar New Year season, we appreciate the opportunity to gather our thoughts on the past year, and to ground ourselves in our intentions for the year ahead. With the incoming Year of the Fire Horse, our annual greeting this year reads, 萬馬奔騰, which translates to “with the momentum of ten thousand galloping horses”. While we look to the horse for ways to honour the care, strength, and joy to be found in our collective power, we offer these reflections on one of the unique ways our team has strived to embody this intention, through our collaborative participation as part of the Co-Share Collective.

As an Asian-led and -serving organization, food has always meant a great deal to us, but portraying the importance of having culturally affirming food at our gatherings hasn’t always been so easy to describe. Food is a form of care—from the way we provide it, to the kind of food we provide, to its place as a social lubricant and reason to come together—food is political and we have always known it. 

Find out who we keep ordering from, what we order, and why it’s important to us.