Where to celebrate Lunar New Year in San Diego

Here are some upcoming festivities:

🐼 The San Diego Zoo is marking the occasion Saturday and Sunday with activities focusing on Asian wildlife, plants and conservation efforts.

🐍 The Tết Festival celebrates the Vietnamese Lunar New Year with live performances, rides and concessions from Friday afternoon through Sunday evening at NTC Park in Liberty Station.

🥟 Lunar New Year Brunch rings in the holiday with Chinese dim sum from Imperial Mandarin on Convoy Street.

🐉 Mission Valley's Lunar New Year includes lion and dragon dance performances at the Nordstrom Rack Court.

The bottom line: "This holiday is all about ushering wealth and restarting the new year with foods that symbolize good luck," Jenny Leung, executive director of the Chinese Culture Center of San Francisco, told Axios San Francisco.

• Check out common foods during Lunar New Year celebrations, and what they symbolize.