Chinese New Year Festive Class – Delectable and Creative Recipes
Symbolic Chinese New Year Foods
If you are planning your Chinese New Year feast, you might be wondering what foods you should serve.
While it is important to look for delicious recipes that satisfy your guests, you should also be mindful of the symbolism of each dish you choose.
As with all cultures, some dishes are considered lucky, bring good health, happiness, and fortune in the new year.
Other dishes, however, could put quite the damper on your New Year’s festivities as they appear to bring bad luck.
To help you with your menu planning, here are some dishes you can serve.
Whole Chicken
Everyone love chicken and it can be prepared and served in many ways.
It is very important that you should serve the whole chicken for the Chinese New Year.
Why? It symbolizes unity and family togetherness.
Long Life Noodles – Yi Mein
You should plan to include a noodle dish in your Chinese New Year meal.
Long life noodles are one of the favourite Chinese dishes and you can enrol into a hands-on cooking class to learn a recipe.
Long life noodles symbolize a long life and do not cut them as this will bring bad luck.
Clams and Golden Spring Rolls
These two items symbolize great wealth to the family.
Clams are considered lucky as they shape like a full moon or resemblance to bouillon.
Cylindrical-shaped fried spring rolls resemble gold bars which symbolize wealth and prosperity.
Lettuce
Luck of lettuce comes from the sound of the word in Cantonese as it symbolizes rising fortune.
You can use the lettuce as wraps and stuff it with other festive foods, making the coming year more prosperous.
Tangerines
Similar to lettuce, tangerine symbolize wealth, good luck and abundance.
Whole Fish
Still, in the vein of similar words, the word for fish sounds like two lucky words—wish and abundance.
The time to serve the fish is as the meal comes to an end, sending off a wish for abundance and prosperity in the new year.
To make the meal even more symbolic, serve the whole fish.
The head and tail symbolize the beginning and end of the new year, filling it with wonderful and blissful things.
Cakes
Cakes are loaded with symbolism for the Chinese New Year.
The rich and sweet flavour symbolizes a wealthy and sweet year.
The cakes you serve should be layered cakes, symbolizing a life that is deep and full of abundance, or the popular pineapple tarts.
Finally, keep them round to symbolize the unity of the family.
Ring In the Chinese New Year Holiday With Mouth-Watering Chinese Recipes!
Here are the highlights of our hands-on festive cooking and baking classes available.
Jump start your culinary skills for the Chinese New Year Prosperous Recipes now!
- Chinese Cuisine Cooking Class
- Sichuan Cuisine Cooking Class
- Modern Chinese Cuisine Cooking Class
- Asian Dumplings and Yam Cake
- Chinese Buns Making Class
- White Almond Cookies and Snowballs Workshop
- Pineapple Tarts Making Workshop
- Prosperous Dishes Making Class (Lou Hei, Rice Pudding etc..)
Contact us for the schedules of the Chinese New Year Festive Classes Today!