Because Luo's grandparents have lived with us for many years, the family reunion dinner always surrounds our family during the Chinese New Year. Grandma and mom are very traditional, and there is absolutely no shortage of auspicious dishes, so they often start preparing one or two weeks in advance. This time, Miss Luo is eager to share with you the common dishes and their symbolic meanings on the dinner table of our family. I hope everyone will have good luck in the new year.

Hotpot: It means "reunion". There are hot pots around the stove, and everyone eats very warmly.

Demonstration cuisine: kimchi hot pot, sauerkraut white meat hot pot, mutton stove, ginger duck, Hefeng milk stew hot pot, sesame chicken, hot pot soup base+two sauces.

Fish: It symbolizes more than one year. Regardless of cooking techniques such as steaming, stewing, sweet and sour, it is best to present whole fish. You can eat all Chinese New Year dishes except fish, because you have to leave a little to make a surplus.

Demonstration dishes: Thai sweet and sour braised fish, steamed rag? Fish, grilled salmon with seasonal vegetables

Radish cake: the Minnan dialect of radish is the head of the dish, and the homonym means that the color is good and has a good omen; "Gao" and "Gao" are homonyms, meaning "increasing year by year".

Demonstration cuisine: mushroom radish cake, vegetarian radish cake, golden radish cake (made of ancient rice paste), Hong Kong radish cake and fried radish cake with xo sauce.

New Year's cake: The new year's cake made of glutinous rice is a must-order dish for the New Year. The older generation said, "Eat sweet and enjoy the New Year", which, like radish cake, has the meaning of rising year by year.

Demonstration food: ancient brown sugar rice cakes, red bean rice cakes, fried rice cakes, matcha red bean rice cakes and pumpkin rice cakes.

Taro: Taro has the meaning of "protecting (taro) grandchildren".

Demonstration dish: taro and radish cake

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Chicken or chicken soup: The Taiwanese pronunciation of chicken is the same as that of home, which means it is a family dinner dish and one of the New Year dishes, but it is best to serve the whole chicken (it is best to have a head and a tail, which represents the family portrait, but it should be difficult to buy a chicken with a head except for your own).

Demonstration Cuisine: Gui Xiang Chicken, Korean Glutinous Rice, Jujube Chicken Soup (please refer to 64 Chicken Cuisine Highlights).

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Yuanbao: That is, jiaozi, which represents the way to make money. Northerners will definitely eat jiaozi during Chinese New Year, and usually wrap copper coins in jiaozi. People who eat jiaozi with coins will make a fortune next year (my friends in China will wrap almonds as a symbol of coins). ?

Demonstration recipes: homemade dumpling skin, sour cabbage, jiaozi, pickle pot stickers.

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Nostoc flagelliforme and cake: take its homonym "hair", which means to get rich and prosper. At the same time, the more cracks on the cake, the more wealth it symbolizes in the coming year.

Demonstration recipes: brown sugar hair cake, ancient red rice hair cake, Liu Liu Dashun Kaiyun hair cake (six flavors)

Zhu Sheng: It represents the peaceful and endless life in Zhu Bao.

Demonstration recipe: Buddha jumps over the wall, bamboo sheng chicken soup

Leek: It means forever. The slower you eat, the better, which means you can eat for a long time.

Demonstration recipes: fried gold and silver eggs with leeks, fried oyster omelet with leeks, fried thick eggs with leeks and shrimps, and peeled leeks and shrimps.

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Jujube or jujube: for Happy New Year (Taiwanese pronunciation)

Demonstration recipes: tremella, red jujube and lotus seed soup, Shanghai famous point heart is too soft, red jujube longan chicken soup, red jujube and honey Qifeng cake.

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Tangyuan: the shape is the same as food, which means reunion and all the best.

Demonstration recipes: sesame dumplings, matcha red bean dumplings, ancient purple rice dumplings, cheese dumplings and rice noodle soup, fried dumplings with peanuts.

? Apple: "Apple" is homophonic with "Ping", which means "good luck and peace" and is also an indispensable fruit in general ancestor worship.

Demonstration recipes: apple potato stew, apple spice black tea, apple yeast muffins, fried chicken legs with apple sauce.

Pineapple: Good luck.

Demonstration recipes: golden pickles, pineapple shrimp balls, pineapple cake, pineapple fried rice, pineapple roasted pork belly.

And the pig's trotters stew, which is essential for our family.

Ma Lao's signature dishes are pork trotters, salted pork trotters, Dongpo pork, pork belly with Shaoxing wine and pork belly with cola.

Oranges: Oranges and ponkan are homonyms for "good luck" and "profit".

Longevity vegetables: "mustard" and "grass-cutting vegetables" mean longevity and longevity; When eating "long-year dishes", you must eat them one by one from beginning to end, because only in this way can you live longer.

Maruko: Maruko is a homonym of circle, which means reunion. Palace meatballs, cuttlefish meatballs, mushroom meatballs, fish meatballs and shrimp meatballs are all acceptable (but there must be at least three kinds of meatballs, and three different kinds of meatballs mean "three-way union", that is, champion, Huiyuan and Jieyuan). ?

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