What are traditional chinese new year dishes?
It depends on which regions / part of China but mostly Chinese families gather toghter to have dinner on New Year Eve, as for in Guangzhou (Cantonese region), the following are the typical dishes for my family (I m still living with my parents and my bothers and sister-the in-laws and nephews + neice come to our home every New Year Eve to have dinner) 1) a whole steamed fish (fish sound as “yu” and “yu” also is the same pronounciation of another word as “surplus” – this is dish is wishing the family would have excess food and fortune bring forward to next year. 2) a whole chicken steamed or any other style of cooking, as main meat course. 3) braised mushroom with black moss and dried abalone or fish maw or dried oysters (serve with boiled lettuce) 4) Crispy Roast Pork (usually as appetizer) 5) Sauteed tiger prawns with garlic soy sauce or ketchup 6) Long boiled soup (pork bone + carrots + green raddish) or (Long boiled pork + lotus seed + Lily roots + dried figs + white fungus) 7) Swee
