In Cantonese New Year's Eve, if you want to talk about seven home-cooked dishes, the chicken is the protagonist, and the first boiled chicken is more popular. The chicken is tender and smooth, not greasy, and it is delicious with ginger and onion dip. The second course is rich stewed pork hands with oyster sauce, which means good things make a fortune. Full pork hands are served with soft oyster sauce, and delicious home-cooked meals can be served. Every household has fish on the New Year's Eve, which means that there is more than one year, so the third way is steamed sea fish, which is authentic and expresses good wishes for the New Year. The fourth dish, Boiled Shrimp, originated in Guangzhou, but spread all over Guangdong. You can feel the delicacy of shrimp meat in a simple cooking way.
The fifth course is roast goose, which is second only to boiled chicken in Guangdong. It is crispy when roasted and dipped in sour plum sauce, and the taste is really fragrant. When home-cooked meat dishes come to the table one after another, it is natural to match vegetarian dishes, and the sixth home-cooked dish necessary for Guangdong New Year's Eve is oil-guzzling lettuce. Cantonese people like to eat green vegetables, and lettuce is their own? Making money? The meaning is even more indispensable; The seventh way is to cook glutinous rice balls with red beans. The sweet taste also symbolizes the sweetness of the future.
The above seven home-cooked dishes have their own characteristics and meanings, but the tastes of each family are different, and everyone still decides according to their own preferences.