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A taste of tradition Chinese New Year

Dim Sum order form during CNY Reunion dinner ( 年夜飯 ) When? New Year's Eve of the Chinese New Year Who? family members Some leftover will be intentionally

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A taste of traditionChinese New Year

Dim Sum order form during CNY

Dim Sum order form during

CNY

Reunion dinner (年夜飯 )

When? New Year's Eve of the Chinese New Year

Who? family members

Some leftover will be intentionally kept aside

symbolize ‘surplus’ derived from the Chinese phrase ‘nian nian you yu’ (年年有餘 ) having surplus every year'.

Chicken presented whole

To represent completeness

Fat Choi Ho Si (發財好事 )

Wealth and Good Business

Glutinous rice cake or niangao

Promotion or progress

Crispy Dumplings 油角

Wealth

Chinese Laughing Doughnuts 笑口棗

Happy

Sesame Dumplings 煎堆

Wealth 煎堆轆轆,金銀滿屋

Household God/ Kitchen God

灶君 It is believed that on the twenty third day of the twelfth lunar month, just before Chinese New Year he returns to Heaven to report the activities of every household over the past year to the Jade Emperor (Yu Huang).

Chinese Candy Box 全盒

Common ingredients for Chinese New YearFish

(Surplus)Lettuce (Growth in wealth)

Green vegetable - Evergreen

Dried oyster (Good things)

Dumpling (Shaped like gold ingots)

Spring Onion (Wisdom)Celery (Diligence)