My friends are moving to China, what should I call their going-away party?

January 13, 2009 4:18 PM

I am having a going-away party for my friends and I need a theme/name! They're moving to China for a year and are brothers, in their 20s. I wanted to come up with something funny but I am blanking today....
posted by edrewes to grab bag (6 comments total)

I don't know how appropriate it is, but the first thing I thought of was the Five Chinese Brothers.
posted by jozxyqk at 4:34 PM on January 13

a communist party
posted by kanemano at 4:44 PM on January 13 [2 favorites]

the Beijing Olympics are kind of passe at this point I guess, but I think the Olympics can be a pretty fun theme party. You can encourage people to dress up as their favorite current or past olympic athlete, or anyone "olympics"y, like maybe bob costas or bela caroli (no idea on spelling there). you can also then organize olympics games which can either be innocent party games or drinking party games, or both. gunny sack races, baseball where you have to chug to take a base, humorous relay races of all kinds, fake triathalon, possibilities are endless. i don't know what your/your friends stance on chinese politics is/are, but i'm also imagining some sort of humorous play on all the covering up of poverty/human rights issues/environmental atrocities that went on for the sake of the media during the olympics, but maybe that's a little heavy!!
posted by dahliachewswell at 5:18 PM on January 13

a communist party

Please don't. That's about as funny as a Nazi party.

You could have an "All-American" party to give your friends a last big dose of what they'll be missing. Serve the most American food you can think of (i.e., hot dogs and apple pie), decorate the place with all kinds of flag crap, ask people to dress up as their favourite American stereotype (i.e., rednecks, baseball players, soldiers, F.B.I. agents, the Statue of Liberty, Abraham Lincoln, an American tourist abroad, etc.).
posted by orange swan at 5:52 PM on January 13

I went to a friend's "P" party once. Every food started with the letter P. People wore pink, paisley, purple, etc. You get the idea.
posted by eccnineten at 9:03 PM on January 13 [1 favorite]

The Grand Canyon Café in Flagstaff calls itself a Chinese-American restaurant, with cuisine split right down the middle (of the booth seating). You could serve the ostensibly Chinese but really American dish Chop Suey. Or, have a party full of Chinese inventions: noodles, of course, but also fireworks and gunpowder!
posted by Tufa at 7:18 AM on January 14