100 Dishes for Reunion Year

Author: Shangjin Culture Ed.
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Publish Date: 2007-01-01
Features: Chinese people value food and have specific customs when eating. The New Year's Eve dishes are always chosen with auspicious meanings, symbolizing good fortune and peace for the coming year. For example, eating fish is called "" (surplus year after year), rice cakes are "" (), red meat is "" (great luck at the head), dumplings are "" (reunion), eating noodles is "" (longevity), and eating chicken is "" (all things go well). Eel is "" (hundred fortunes), bean sprouts and enoki mushrooms are named "" (as one wishes) due to their shapes, tofu buns are "" (ancestral bag), jujubes symbolize "" (sweetness), peanuts represent "" (generation after generation), lilies represent "" (hundred-year harmonious union), green vegetables are "" (jade), and apples signify "" (peace) for the coming year. A little bit of Chinese wisdom adds more joy to the festival. This book features 100 New Year's Eve dishes for you to choose from, helping you avoid repetitive meals every day and making it no longer a hassle to prepare a lavish New Year's Eve dinner!