You can eat some other auspicious foods, such as jiaozi and fish.

The reunion dinner on New Year's Eve is very rich. Of course, chicken is indispensable. On New Year's Eve, when people in many places eat, the first dish on the table is chicken, which means "good luck"; Chicken also means "starting with chicken", so many places must have chicken on the dining table on New Year's Eve. "Chicken" and auspicious "Ji" are homonyms, and China people think that eating chicken represents good luck. The delicious Chinese New Year chicken is indispensable, and the chicken eaten in Guangdong during the Chinese New Year is a relatively complete chicken. Chicken means auspiciousness, chicken wings, flying high and flying high, and eating the whole family means "family reunion". So everyone will choose to eat chicken in unison, hoping that in the new year, everyone will be safe and healthy.

There is a saying in China that "no feast can be made without chicken". Therefore, chicken is an indispensable and important dish for all banquets, regardless of size, and the New Year's Eve is no exception. There is a chicken "with a plan", which means that there is a plan to make money, and every disaster is good. There are also many ways to cook chicken. For example, Sichuan and Chongqing like to make spicy chicken, while Guangdong likes to eat pork belly chicken and boiled chicken. Chickens everywhere have different tastes.

Other foods to eat on New Year's Eve:

jiaozi is an indispensable food on holidays. It is very convenient to eat, and the smaller jiaozi is very enjoyable to eat one by one. Eating jiaozi on New Year's Eve is also our traditional custom, which has the meaning of making a fortune and alternating the old with the new. Jiaozi is a kind of cultural heritage, and it is an indispensable food for New Year's Eve. For many people, if they don't eat jiaozi in the New Year, the year will be imperfect.

Eating jiaozi means celebrating and reuniting. In addition, the shape of jiaozi is similar to an ingot, so eating jiaozi on New Year's Eve also means "making a fortune". Eating jiaozi on New Year's Eve is also very particular about stuffing. For example, jiaozi with leek stuffing means "long time" and "long wealth".

jiaozi stuffed with Chinese cabbage means "throwing money". Many people in Northeast China like to eat jiaozi with pickled cabbage stuffing, which means "counting money". Jiaozi stuffed with celery represents "hard work" and "wealth". Jiaozi with minced fish stands for "more than one year" and so on.