Chinese New Year Food Delights
The Chinese New Year is exciting and a time for delicious food.
This year of the Monkey is a great time for new and interesting New Year’s delights as well as plenty of excellent traditional dishes.
Dumplings, oranges, pomelo, whole fish, gok jai, and the tray of togetherness are just some of the excellent treats you can choose from to bring the best of luck to you and your family this year.
It is tradition to eat with the family for the New Year and have all the important food and praise to ring in the Chinese New year with prosperity and luck.
It is time to get out the cooking utensils, because the Chinese New Year is a culinary cornucopia of dishes, treats, and eats.
Dumplings are a must for the Chinese New Year.
A pork and cabbage dumpling is also known as “Yuan bao.
The old adage is that because these delicious dumplings look like old Chinese currency, they will help with prosperity.
When you eat plenty of these little delicious dumplings you are helping to prosperity to you and your loved ones.
The dumplings are most often served with vinegar and soy sauce.
These two sauces are the perfect match to dip the dough-based dumpling.
The tangy vinegar and soy sauce blend perfectly with the minced pork.
The tray of togetherness is a wonderful tray to have for guests or is perfect as a gift.
The collection of treats is tasty and helpful for the New Year.
You will find eight compartments as eight is considered a lucky number.
The foods that traditionally find their way to the compartments are food like coconut that helps inspire togetherness, longans or birth mothers to bear lots of sons, kumquats help with prosperity.
Red melon seeds help out with happiness and other great treats complete this beautiful bowl of positive thoughts and well wishes.
Gok Jai is a delicious coconut that represents bringing to the New Year a sweet life and continuing to have a sweet life throughout the coming year.
In the shape of a bar, this coconut-based treat also has peanuts and the popular sesame combined to create a unique and fantastic flavour.
These bars are flaky and tasty. The children especially love these bars for a snack or dessert.
You can help make this a true prediction by following the fabulous Chinese tradition of eating special foods on and around the Chinese New Year.
If you are very familiar with the Chinese New Year traditional foods, we have many Hands-on Chinese Cooking Classes.
If you are new to the Chinese New Year traditional foods, then you need to look no further then to start with one recipe and keep trying new and different things.
Our chefs prepare a variety of CNY special classes for this festive season. So don’t wait any longer.
Have a prosperous Chinese New Year, peace, and best of luck the whole year long.