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A nicely written article with good vocabulary (for bin bin!) about lucky new year foods!

Eat Lots of Lucky Foods for Extra Luck on Chinese New Year Many believe that you will receive more blessings for the coming year if you prepare and eat various lucky foods on Chinese New Year. Food is an important part of Chinese culture, and every family celebrates with the most delicious and sumptuous array of Chinese dishes.

Eat Lots of Lucky Foods for Extra Luck on Chinese New Year Many believe that you will receive more blessings for the coming year if you prepare and eat various lucky foods on Chinese New Year. Food is an important part of Chinese culture, and every family celebrates with the most delicious and sumptuous array of Chinese dishes.

Great info about Lucky Foods during the New Year!

Given the importance of food in Chinese culture, it is not surprising that food plays a major role in Chinese New Year celebrations. "Lucky" foods are served through the two week Chinese New Year celebration, also called the Spring festival. What gives a certain food symbolic significance? Sometimes it is based on appearance. New year foods that are considered lucky!

Given the importance of food in Chinese culture, it is not surprising that food plays a major role in Chinese New Year celebrations. "Lucky" foods are served through the two week Chinese New Year celebration, also called the Spring festival. What gives a certain food symbolic significance? Sometimes it is based on appearance.

Chinese New Year Foods are very important to Chinese people. All family members come together to eat at this time. Chinese New Year foods are not only delicious but it is traditional to eat certain foods over this festival. Chinese Dumplings, Fish, Spring Rolls, Nian Gao are usually seen as delicious and eaten at this time.

All the chinese cultural foods for the new year, interesting information

this is a great top 10 list for luck foods in the new year!

While the Western New Year is more about drinking, the Chinese New Year is an opportunity to honor family and friends, and to enjoy some culinary traditions. To learn more, we consulted Fuchsia Dunlop, author of Shark's Fin and Sichuan Pepper, and Doris Lum, president of the Association of Chinese Cooking Teachers, as well as Rosemary Gong's book on Chinese culture and celebrations, Good Luck Life, to find out what foods we should have on hand to ensure a prosperous and happy year to come.

1. Tangerines and Oranges. Displaying and eating these fruits is said to bring wealth and luck. According to the Chinese Culture Center of San Francisco, the tradition stems from the way the Chinese words for gold and orange sound alike, while the word for tangerine echoes luck.

This website offers great descriptions of what each food means!

Food offerings are a prayer or a wish and can be addressed to ancestors and other beings such as the Jade Emperor and The Kitchen God. The offering of food serves to bring ancestors and other beings in the other world closer to oneself.

This is a really good site with abundant information! I think we can talk about in class to select the ones both Chinese and Americans would like to have. Remember, we don't want to present something so outrages to turn people off. We are the bridge among cultures.

Among numerous New Year's traditions (kissing at midnight, binge drinking, swearing at occupied cabs around 4 a.m.) are those of the culinary persuasion. Here are six foods that, if consumed in celebration of the New Year, will bring good luck. Or so they say. I also think this would be very helpful because it can give us a chance to compare and contract American and chinese "lucky foods"

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According to Chinese tradition and, some say, superstition, certain foods can bring you luck, fortune and even fertility when eaten around the Chinese New Year. The widely celebrated holiday is so popular that some families go as far as decorating their homes with cherry blossoms and creating centerpieces of red luck money to bring fortunes and luck in the new year.

My Italian grandfather was known to eat a lot of strange things: pickled eels, tripe and anything slimy that would be considered disgusting to most children. For New Year's Day his favorite food was a giant gelatinous sausage called cotechino, cut into sections and smeared with mustard.

These are some auspicious recipes for the new year! We should make some in class!

Food is an essential element of Chinese New Year, perhaps the most important of all the Chinese holidays. The highlight of this 15-day celebration is an elaborate dinner on the Eve of the New Year, also known as the Lunar New Year.

Everything about Chinese New Year Festivals Chinese New Year Day Celebration, Decorations, Songs, Food, Parade, Activities, Stories, Horoscopes and Lantern Festivals 2012 Chinese New Year and Chinese Horoscope 2012 Chinese New Year Parade Schedule 2012 Chinese Zodiac Signs Year of Dragon 2012 Chinese Astrology Year of Dragon 2012 Year of Dragon begins on February 4, 2012 - Chinese New Year Day is on January 23, 2012 2012 Chinese Lantern Festival on February 6, 2012.

Everything about Chinese New Year Festivals Chinese New Year Day Celebration, Decorations, Songs, Food, Parade, Activities, Stories, Horoscopes and Lantern Festivals 2012 Chinese New Year and Chinese Horoscope 2012 Chinese New Year Parade Schedule 2012 Chinese Zodiac Signs Year of Dragon 2012 Chinese Astrology Year of Dragon 2012 Year of Dragon begins on February 4, 2012 - Chinese New Year Day is on January 23, 2012 2012 Chinese Lantern Festival on February 6, 2012.

At the start of the new lunar year, Chinese families come together (or tuan yuan, reunite) to celebrate the most anticipated holiday in the Eastern hemisphere, Spring Festival. CCTV reports that 150 million migrant workers in China have already begun their journey, which for many people is the only

At the start of the new lunar year, Chinese families come together (or tuan yuan, reunite) to celebrate the most anticipated holiday in the Eastern hemisphere, Spring Festival. CCTV reports that 150 million migrant workers in China have already begun their journey, which for many people is the only

Chinese New Year is a time when families get together to celebrate. It is also a special time to remember members of the family who have died. In the days coming up to New Year every family buys presents, decorations, food, new clothes and people have their hair cut.