Eat green vegetables and dollars roll in.

Americans welcome the peak of the festival at the end of each year, and eat roast turkey at Thanksgiving and Christmas. Chinese New Year in America is a good opportunity to taste all kinds of delicious food. Different immigrants bring different cooking methods for New Year's Eve. Americans who like Chinese food will eat China's jiaozi and fried dumpling during Chinese New Year. They know that it means "gold and silver ingots" and they all hope that they will be prosperous in the New Year.

Americans who don't like pork at ordinary times also choose to eat pork products in the New Year. They think it's a symbol of making a fortune. New york's New Year's Eve dinner table includes red-baked ham (bringing good luck), black-eyed beans and rice (these two kinds of food will rise when cooked, which means lucky), and green leafy vegetables (representing green dollar bills). In the southern United States, kale is a popular green food, and eating tightly wrapped leaves can make green money roll in.

Russia

Pie symbolizes happiness, and the New Year is the most popular.

Russians should get together one or two hours before midnight when the New Year comes, and review the most unforgettable events of the past year as a farewell. Celebrations include setting off fireworks and exchanging New Year greetings. People have to wait for the first visitor to their homes. If this person is a man, it indicates good luck this year. The traditional diet of Russians is characterized by simplicity and roughness, and the time for making and eating meals on weekdays is relatively short. But on holidays, especially in the New Year, they will put out a big table of delicious food to enjoy with their families, such as roast duck or goose, cheese, black caviar, sausage, roast chicken, bread and butter, vegetable soup, and of course, vodka.

There is also an important food that is essential for Russian New Year's Eve-pie, which has a good meaning of bumper harvest, health and happiness in Russia. Its raw materials are mainly yellow rice and buckwheat, and its methods and styles are diverse. Finally, it is accompanied by jam and caviar, which tastes good.

France

Drink all the wine to avoid bad luck.

Of course, wine is indispensable for the French to celebrate the New Year. It is said that in just a few days to welcome the new year, only by drinking all the wine left at home in one year can we avoid the bad luck in the coming year. French cuisine is famous for its elegance and delicacy. In the family-based New Year's Eve dinner, what everyone eats is not exquisite, but lively. Therefore, the delicious French food feast is absolutely enjoyable, with wine, roast goose, ham, foie gras, snails, cheese, cakes and fruits all available. Of course, some cooking processes can be called art, and not every French family can make them easily.

Spain

Even eating 12 grapes will be safe next month.

The traditional New Year's Eve dinner in Spain includes shrimp, mutton and chicken, as well as Spanish scrambled eggs. When the New Year bell rings, the Spanish will eat twelve grapes with the bell, each representing a month, praying for a good year for the grapes in the country and for the safety of themselves and their relatives and friends every month. Many Latin American countries influenced by Spanish and Portuguese traditions, such as Venezuela and Cuba, also have the custom of eating grapes in the New Year bell.

Japan

Whose noodles will be lucky in the coming year?

Japanese New Year food is called "Imperial Festival Cuisine", which is a very pleasing combination of delicious food and beautiful utensils. The food of "Yujie Cuisine" pays attention to bright colors and is packed in several layers in exquisite plates. The Japanese skillfully matched red, pink and white fresh fish with festive colors, lined with green leafy vegetables, cut fruits and butterfly orchids, which were beautiful. "Imperial cuisine" in various parts of Japan has its own characteristics, and many people have their own recipes.

The tradition of Japanese people is to cook rice cake soup. It is also essential for everyone to eat a bowl of buckwheat noodles for the New Year. The custom of eating buckwheat noodles has been passed down from the Edo period in Japan, which means blessing and longevity. When the bell rang 108 on New Year's Eve, families began to eat long noodles. It is said that whoever has long noodles will have good luck in the coming year. Moreover, luck is directly proportional to the length of noodles.

Singapore

The whole family fishing for fish is looking forward to the wind and water

Like China, most countries in Southeast Asia celebrate the Lunar New Year. When Singaporeans celebrate the Lunar New Year, the first course of dinner after family members get together is usually "raw fish", which is made of sliced sashimi and shredded vegetables, and then mixed with salad dressing. Every ingredient in this dish is arranged solemnly and neatly.

At this time, the fun of the Lunar New Year has just begun. The hostess unpacked the red lucky bag, which contained peanuts and sesame seeds instead of money. She sprinkled them on the "raw fish" plate, and the whole family stirred them with chopsticks several times, shouting "fish up" while putting on salad dressing. Usually, people shouted seven or eight times. The big basin rice cake is also the most popular dish in the New Year's Eve dinner. The sweet rice cake made of fried glutinous rice and brown sugar contains the local people's desire to pray for a sweet life and good fortune.

the Philippines

Let's make chicken rice together.

On the New Year's Eve in the Philippines, all families should "work together and cook chicken rice together". Filipinos love to eat chicken, and the most interesting thing is that those who can get the cock's head are called "the best, announce others"; Those who get the hen's head mean "many children and many chickens (auspicious)"; Even if it is caught in the chicken ribs, it will be called "the taste of food"; He who catches an egg is "round and full".

Germany

Beans symbolize wealth, and families compete to eat beans.

Germans regard beans as a symbol of wealth, and their New Year's Eve dinner is usually accompanied by bean products such as lentil soup and peas, hoping for good luck in the coming year. Herring and crab are also classic foods in German New Year's Eve dinner. They also believe that putting some fish scales in their pockets will bring good luck in the coming year. Of course, sausages, potatoes, German beer and wine are all essential for Germans to celebrate the New Year, and cream is also an essential seasoning for everyone to eat.