Are you having a reunion dinner on the eve of Chinese New Year. My girlfriend's family is having hot pot?

Sankee

tonight. What other kind of reunion dinner you can have ?

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We are having a Chinese hot pot too tonight. Since its a weekday, its more convenient to buy the raw ingredients, set up a pot of boiling water, make a broth and every one can just cook on the table and eat together. Reunion dinner is all about having the family sitting and eating together. There is no particular rules what kind of reunion dinner you can or cannot have. Some families may have time to cook an elaborate Chinese dinner at home. You can also have it in the restaurants with those expensive stuff like abalone, sharks fin, sea cucumber, roasted ducks/pig, fish etc to bring in the good luck for CNY. You can even have a potluck, each family member brings something to share or you can order pizza, KFC, even tacos or burritos etc. The main and important concept for a CNY reunion dinner, is for all the family members to sit and eat together without fighting or quarrelling. Just like having a thanksgiving dinner to be thankful and that the family is still together for the past years and for more years to come *

If my story is set in a fictional town, can I...?

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In my story, I made up my own town. I'm wondering about a few things though, namely using real places. I am wondering especially about using places such fast food restaurants (McDonald's, KFC etc.) and cinemas (such as Village cinemas which are in Australia). Could I use them? Or would it interfere with copyright and stuff?

Thanks!

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As others have stated, yes, you can use brand names in your story as long as you use them as background only and they aren't portrayed negatively. For instance, I wouldn't have someone murdered in the KFC, or say they closed the local McDonald's because of an E. coli outbreak.

Now that you feel comfortable that you can use brand names, I'm not sure that I would. Many many years ago I used to like Dean R. Koontz, and read everything of his that I could find. By overdosing on him, I realized certain things, like most of his protagonists like to down a Dos Equis with dinner. That's a small thing, but when it pops up again and again in your stories, it becomes a distraction.

Don't name drop excessively. After all, these companies aren't paying you.

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