For the Chinese, it is not a proper Lunar New Year without proper food. Hence each family has been getting ready. Dried sausages, oysters, mushrooms, ducks, pork bellies, scallops, abalones, sea cucumbers, fish bladder, …
Fresh fish, shrimp, crabs, lobsters, geoducks, …
The pig, in particular, has sacrificed its whole body - every single part of it - so that we can have a proper feast. Cows, chicken, ducks, lambs, etc., as well. But the Chinese are particular to pigs.
We also like roasted ducks, geese, pork bellies, …
Big bak choi with a string attached. So that we can hang them up. So that we can eat them over several days over the New Year Festival, without having to put them in a refrigerator.
Watermelon seeds, sunflower seeds, pumpkin seeds, pine nuts, pistachios, macadamia nuts,
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Noodles of all kinds and colours, …
Fried sugar and peanut-filled dumplings, …
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Finished New Year’s Eve dinner only an hour or so ago. But hungry again, already!
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