Chinese meals

Chinese food

When Chinese people eat, the older people in the family start first. They don't use knives because it means they are chopping their good luck away. Instead they use forks, spoons and chopsticks.

Some meals are sweetcorn soup, fried rice, steamed rice, prawn and vegies stir fries, curries, spring rolls, seafood dishes,crispy chicken, hor fun, braised noodle dishes, noodle soups.

Chinese New Year food

Lucky food is served for the coming year. The luck comes from the sound of foods name and what it looks like.

Lucky foods and their meanings:

- fish (means surplus, so if you save something at the end of the year, then you make more next year)

- dumplings (the more you eat, the more money you will get)

- spring rolls (look like gold bars so mean prosperity)

- Tong Yin / sweet rice balls in syrup (happy family reunion)

- long noodles (long life)

- oranges (good luck and fortune)

By Beatrix