Chinese New Year Food

Chinese New Year Foods are very important to the Chinese people. All family members come together to eat at this time. More and more foreign tourists expect to celebrate Chinese New Year in a local Chinese family, which also becomes one of Top 10 Things to Do in China. Chinese New Year foods are not only delicious but it is traditional to eat certain foods over this festival, such as Chinese Dumplings, Fish, Spring Rolls, and Nian Gao.

Chinese Dumplings: Chinese Dumplings look like silver ingots. Legend has it that the more dumplings you eat during the New Year celebration, the more money you can make in the New Year.   Almost all Chinese people can make dumplings; first mix the dough, second make the dough into wrappers by a rolling pin, third fill the wrappers with pork, beef, vegetable, fish or anything else that can be used as stuffing.

Fish: In Chinese, the word "Fish" sounds like "save more". Chinese People always like to save more money at the end of year because they think if they save more, they can make more in the next year.

Spring Roll: People like Spring Rolls because they are nutritious and delicious. Spring Rolls contain pork and vegetable. They can be easily taken on picnics. They get their name because they are traditionally eaten during the Chinese New Year Celebration.

Nian Gao: In Chinese, Nian Gao sounds like "getting higher year by year". In Chinese people's mind, the higher you are, the more prosperous your business is. Main ingredients of Nian Gao are sticky rice, sugar, Chestnuts, Chinese dates and lotus leaves.