Chinese New Year food

1.              Traditionally select dishes match New Year’s Eve dinner as they supposedly usher good fortune in the year to come.

2.              This food is cooked and served during the 16-day festival season.

3.              Fish is a surplus to the dinner, thereby symbolizing better prosperity.

4.              Steaming is the form of preparing the fish.

5.              Dumplings are chopped vegetables or minced meat, wrapped with fine elastic dough sheaths.

6.              As they look like money pouches, they are believed to make homes jingle with coins [maybe bitcoins of late].

7.              Noodles, being long, represent a long life.

8.              Golden fried spring rolls glitter like gold, thereby promising to increase the home’s treasury.

9.              Oranges, tangerines and other citrus fruits with their golden hues are sweet brightly coloured gift items.

10.       The round shape of sweet rice balls symbolizes unity.

11.        The fact that the rice sticks together represent the family reunion on New Year.

12.       It reminds the Chinese of family sticking together in peace and harmony.

13.       The annual cake is believed to be lucky, hoping for the next year to be better than the last.

14.       Food items avoided on New Year are eggs, tofu and white cheeses.

15.       That’s because, being white, they remind the Chinese of death.

 

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