When it comes to Cantonese New Year's Eve dinner, chicken is the protagonist, and the first boiled chicken is more popular. Chicken is tender, smooth and not greasy. It is delicious with ginger and scallions dipped in it. The second course is stewed pig's hands in oyster sauce, which means good things make a fortune. Full of pig hands with soft oyster sauce, you can also serve delicious home cooking. Every household has fish on New Year's Eve, which means more than one year, so the third way is to steam sea fish and express good wishes for the New Year. The fourth dish, boiled shrimp, originated in Guangzhou, but spread all over Guangdong. You can feel the delicious shrimp meat in a simple cooking way.
The fifth course is roast goose, which is the favorite of Guangdong people after boiled chicken. It's crisp when dipped in sour plum sauce, and it tastes really delicious. Home cooking meat dishes are served one after another, and naturally vegetarian dishes are indispensable, and the sixth home cooking course necessary for Guangdong New Year's Eve is oil-guzzling lettuce. Cantonese people like to eat green vegetables, and lettuce is grown by themselves? Make money? Meaning is even more indispensable; The seventh method is to cook dumplings with red beans. Sweetness also symbolizes the sweetness of the future.
The above seven home-cooked dishes have their own characteristics and meanings, but the tastes are different, and everyone still decides according to their own preferences.