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Chinese New Year Cards
If you need to send ecards in advance, then read our post: How to send eCards automatically when you travel. Yet for Chinese new Year you are right in time to start sending: this year’s Chinese New Year falls on 18th of February, and 18 is a good number!
Chinese New Year
The biggest variety of different food is cooked and eaten during the Chinese New Year reunion dinners and served to the Gods and ancestors. Very traditional food is prepared. Chinese New Year is all about family, tradition, wealth, health and special Chinese new year cooking and customs:
- The Chinese will make sure all the depths are paid off
- Everybody will visit his parents or host his children, friends and family. A lot of cooking will be done.
- Bowls of food will be set on altars as offerings (and no food goes to waste…)
- Never clean your house on Chinese new year: you want to keep the good fortune inside the house! Yet make sure all the bad luck is swept out the evening before Chinese New Year.
- Bang as much firecrackers as you are allowed to!
- My mom in law prays to the Kitchen God and in return she makes the best glutinous rice with lots of "goodies" inside, wrapped in banana leaves
- Sticky cake for gluing the mouth of the kitchen God (so the Kitchen God cannot report any bad things you did the previous year. Kitchen God needs to report to the Jade Emperor in heaven)
- And lots of other dishes, the list of Chinese new year dishes goes on…
What to eat in a restaurant during Chinese New Year?
If you are not Chinese and you want to join in the CNY food: what to order? Some restaurants in Malaysia will recommend you their dishes specially made for new year… Mostly the price is more made for CNY than the taste is and tourists will fall in the trap.
Just have a look around: if you don’t see the locals eating "the special dish", it’s probably not really a Chinese New Year Dish.
As usual:
dine where the locals dine,
order what the locals eat.
Jennie on February 18th, 2007
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I’ll be sure not to sweep my house tomorrow!
I love anything wrapped in banana leaves — the smell is so enticing.
Happy New Year! Chuc Mung Nam Moi (I can hear firecrackers outside right now =D)
Quick Dinner Recipes on February 22nd, 2007
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I totally agree, my banana leaf favorite is a thai wrapped chicken minced meat deep fried, yet I never had the luck to taste anything vietnamese in a banana leaf. Is soo hard for me to read vietnamese menu card…
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