In the northern coastal cities, I will go to my parents' home once a year on New Year's Eve to spend the reunion year with my parents. As the most important festival of the year, the New Year's Eve is full of delicious food, and the dishes should also pay attention to an auspicious meaning. So what do people eat in the New Year?

1. Steamed fish

Steamed fish means you have money. When eating fish in the New Year, you must put the whole fish on the table, so as to set off the festive atmosphere. For steamed fish, we usually choose Duobao fish, crow fish or mandarin fish, depending on the actual purchase situation.

2. Stewed mushrooms with chicken

Stewed chicken with mushrooms means good luck, and both chicken and fish are needed in the New Year, every year. Stewed mushrooms with chicken, as the first of the four major stews in Northeast China, is naturally an indispensable dish on the dinner table. If you can't buy suitable farm chicken, you can use coke chicken wings or braised chicken wings instead.

3. Shrimp

Shrimp means prosperity, and shrimp is indispensable on the table of coastal families. People who like fresh and sweet food usually fry shrimps with tomato sauce and stew them.

4. Braised elbow

Braised elbow means to be the first. As the hope of the family in the future, children naturally want him to be the first. Pig's trotters contain the word hoof, which should be called the first! Whether the family likes this dish or not, people will regard it as a dish on the New Year's table.

5. Seafood family photo

Seafood family portrait is a dish with local characteristics. All kinds of fresh seafood can be used to make sashimi platter. You can also mix all kinds of seafood together and stew them on a plate.

6. Fried shrimp with lily cashew nuts

Fried shrimps with lily cashew nuts means harmony and beauty.

Vegetarian dishes on New Year's Eve should also have different combinations. Lily itself has a beautiful meaning. This dish is to wish our family peace and happiness every year.

7. Sweet and sour fish

Sweet and sour fish is the last dish of New Year's Eve. Sweet and sour fish pay attention to raising their heads and chest, and have the potential to leap into the dragon gate. Basically, we use our specialty large yellow croaker, and then drizzle it with sweet and sour juice.

As the most important New Year's Eve dinner for a family, there are naturally dishes that are not often eaten and are troublesome to cook. And with the improvement of living standards, the dishes of New Year's Eve are constantly changing. People will choose some simple cooking foods, but the theme of New Year's Eve will never change!