Cantonese cuisine
Recipe: fermented bean curd trotters, lettuce in oyster sauce, braised round trotters, steamed fish in Cantonese style, scallion chicken, steamed vermicelli with red paste crab, pepper chicken, steamed scallops with garlic vermicelli, vegetarian roast goose, celery leaves mixed with winter bamboo shoots, braised pork with glutinous rice and braised pork tongue.
Cantonese cuisine pays the most attention to "Italian head", and New Year's Eve is a favorite "Italian head dish" full of festive atmosphere. For example, the platter of suckling pig is "lucky strike", lettuce means "making money", and Ji's braised pork has a handle, representing men, expecting family members to join, as well as celery (diligent) dishes and fried chicken offal with winter bamboo shoots. Nowadays, with the improvement of living standards, many dishes in the New Year's Eve dinner are high-end dishes that people rarely eat, such as the golden soup baked by Australian lobster named Longteng Hu Yue and the all-inclusive abalone wing and belly soup.
Hakka gourmet
Recipe: boiled chicken, stuffed tofu, braised pork, celery fried bacon, braised duck, candied fruit, steamed fish, garlic fried vegetables, ginseng chicken soup.
Hakka's New Year's Eve dinner can be said to be big fish and big meat. Chicken, duck and fish are all available. Authentic Hakka New Year's Eve dinner pays great attention to the integrity of "meat", and chicken, duck and fish are essential. There is also a kind of Hakka tofu that everyone will order in Hakka restaurants. The hostess at home played 18 kinds of martial arts to work hard on stuffing, some used shrimp to enhance freshness, some used mushrooms to enhance fragrance, and all kinds of delicious stuffing were brewed in tofu just ground the night before, which was so delicious that people turned pale. Besides traditional tofu and chicken, celery and garlic symbolize hard work, counting and prosperity in the coming year. Avocado can be regarded as a dessert on New Year's Eve. Avocado, also called "fried pile", will fry the dough deep red. It is an essential food for every meal during the Spring Festival to steam avocado as a dessert.
Cai Chao
Recipe: Fried crab with ginger onion, braised eel, boiled shrimp, fried garlic with fresh squid, three fresh goose soup, cabbage and fish ball soup, shredded cold mustard, vegetarian fried leek, pumpkin taro pot (or ginkgo syrup).
Seafood is the protagonist of the hipster's New Year's Eve dinner. In recent years, high-grade ingredients such as "abalone, pork chicken, sea cucumber, lobster and crab", "swallow, wing, abalone, ginseng and belly (fish glue)" have also begun to appear on the table of hipsters. However, no matter how advanced the ingredients are, one kind of vegetable is indispensable, and that is fried leeks. The word "Jiu" means "Jiu" in Chaozhou, which means good luck and long life.
In the past, there must be a "converter" in the middle of the dining table, and charcoal was put in the middle of the converter. The charcoal is red, and the vegetables are rolling, which is equivalent to the hot pot now, meaning reunion and prosperity. And pumpkin taro can be cooked into delicious, beautiful and delicious "Happy ever after".