Let's talk about the New Year's Eve dinner in Northeast China today. During the Chinese New Year, every household in Northeast China will kill pigs. Therefore, pork is the most common thing at the dinner table of New Year's Eve. Their dining table has stewed pork with sauerkraut, pig's head meat, pig's trotters and other delicacies. In addition, the most classic in Northeast China are stewed mushrooms with chicken and chicken feet with soy sauce. In fact, these foods are people's favorite foods. However, the last dish of the Northeast people is actually jiaozi.
In Northeast China, after the annual New Year's Eve dinner, every household will make a lot of jiaozi. Even if they are full, they will cook jiaozi. After drinking, they will eat a few jiaozi, as if this has become a habit of the northeast people. In fact, for southerners, I don't understand why I have to eat jiaozi after eating a table of good food at night. However, for the northeast people, even if there are more dishes to eat at the New Year's Eve, they can't compare with several jiaozi. Eating a few jiaozi's is a feeling of New Year's Eve, and at the same time, I feel the warmth of home. Jiaozi represents the success of the coming year, which is very auspicious for the northeast people for so many years.
For southerners, they like to eat jiaozi on the morning of New Year's Day, because everyone needs to pay a New Year call. Eating jiaozi is a very simple thing, so they are used to eating jiaozi at this time. In fact, I don't think they are very particular about when they eat jiaozi, as long as the family is happy.