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Some Delicious Lunar New Year Foods

Posted on by Cynthia Cheng Mintz

The Lunar New Year is almost upon us.  In fact, the year of the snake starts this coming Sunday.  New Year foods can vary from region to region and from household to household.  There is jai, of course, eaten on the first day (and of which I discussed in further detail last year).  One thing […]

Foods for the Lunar New Year

Posted on by Cynthia Cheng Mintz

Cynthia Cheng Mintz Most people know about the basics of Chinese New Year.  That it’s bigger than Christmas, each year is represented by an animal (this year, it’s the rabbit) people get lai see money in red envelopes and that it lasts for several days.   As Chinese culture is very much about  food, so naturally, there’s even more food when […]