Ngaku Chinese Arrowhead Chips • Auspicious Goodies for Chinese New Year 炸芽菇饼

Fried ngaku 芽菇 or arrowhead chips are one of my favourite Chinese New Year snacks.

Who Invented Lou Hei Yu Sheng? History of Chinese Prosperity Raw Fish Toss 好运鱼生 • 什锦鱼生 • 十感鱼生

How did the annual Chinese New Year ritual of lou hei yee sang or prosperity toss of raw fish and salad come about?

Its roots go back to the dawn of Chinese civilisation. (But, we shall see that the custom of prosperity toss is a recent phenomenon and not from China 🤔 )

Why Chinese Eat Dumplings Jiaozi during Winter Solstice • Lunar New Year Day • Fifth Day of Chinese New Year

Chinese celebrate Winter Solstice (21 or 22 Dec) with glutinous rice balls and dumplings.

The glutinous rice ball, Winter Solstice custom go back over 1000 years. I have an article on its origin here 👈

The custom of eating dumplings during Winter Solstice go even further back by a few centuries. How did the dumpling custom come about and why are Chinese dumplings or jiao zi 饺子 shaped like ears?

HUAT'S UP! by Daryl Chow ORIGAME · Lo Hei Yusheng Card Game 捞翻天!

During a Chinese New Year 🐲 gathering, I met Daryl Chow game designer and co-founder of Origame, a world famous board game design company from Singapore 👍

Daryl shared that Origame just (in Nov 2023) released a card game based on the Chinese New Year lou hei yee sang (yusheng) tradition.

History & What is the Difference between Tang Yuan & Yuan Xiao? 湯圓 元宵的歷史

The Chinese tang yuan 湯圓 (also known as yuan xiao 元宵) is a glutinous rice ball filled with jaggery (cooked sugar) or red bean paste, or sesame seed paste and cooked by boiling in water usually sweeten with jaggery. 

Tang yuan or yuan xiao is traditionally made and eaten during 元宵節 Lantern Festival and 冬至 Winter Solstice. Today, they are eaten as a dessert at anytime during the year.

Where to Get Rabbit Fish During Chinese New Year · Mama Bay 馬媽媽 in Toa Payoh & Teo Heng @ Hong Lim

Eleventh day of Chinese New Year, we went on a rabbitfish trail this morning. No lah..., we just went to our usual places for rabbitfish pilgrimage. (If you know of other good rabbitfish places, please share with us in the comments 🙏 )

Eating rabbitfish is a must do tradition for Chinese New Year even though I am not Teochew (am Cantonese). For more on why Teochew people eat rabbitfish during Chinese New Year 👈 click

One of the Best Yusheng Delivery · Beautiful Like Gardens by the Bay · Feast Box by Esseplore

Two weeks of Chinese New Year celebrations, limit to maximum five guests per day, can cause headaches to some people. Feast Box by Esseplore offers a brilliant solution to keep everything joyful and stress free.

Chinese Zodiac Food Guide 2022 🐯 Year of the Tiger 🐯 Eat your Way to Health & Blessings

This Chinese Zodiac food guide is created by feng shui master Peng Song Hua 彭崧桦大师. According to ancient Chinese tradition, each of us is one of twelve Zodiac animals depending on our year of birth. For example, my Zodiac animal is Rat as I was born in the Year of the Rat. Traditional Chinese believe that eating the right types of food for our animal sign can enhance our health and blessings.

History of Buddha Jumps over the Wall • Most Extravagant Soup from Fujian China 佛跳牆

Buddha Jumps over the Wall is a luxurious soup from Fujian province of China. (Image credit Wikipedia)

History of Hakka Poon Choi · Pen Cai from Village Feast to Global Chinese New Year Custom 客家盆菜

Poon Choi 盆菜 literally "basin dish" is a Hakka Chinese custom that is now a well established Chinese New Year celebration tradition in Chinese communities around the world. (It is known as Pen Cai in Mandarin Chinese.)

What is Chaoshan Teochew Pig Head Dumpling? 猪头粽

In old China, food is often scarce, so nothing is wasted. Almost every part of the pig is eaten or turned into a dish. Pig Head Dumpling 猪头粽 is one such dish from Chaoshan district in Guangdong province. Oh.. PHD it is not a rice dumpling.

Why do Teochew Eat Rabbit Fish During Chinese New Year? 白兔鱼 🐟 白肚鱼 🐟 拜年鱼 🐟 發財魚 🐟 泥鯭魚

Rabbit fish 白兔鱼 also known as 白肚鱼 (peh tor her or white belly fish) or 拜年鱼 (Chinese New Year fish) is in high demand during Chinese New Year. Eating rabbit fish during Chinese New Year is considered auspicious, especially in the Teochew community. Other Chinese communities have followed the Teochew custom.

Chinese New Year Hakka Mi Fen Chang & Mi Chang Recipe. Traditional Bee Hoon & Rice Puff Crackers 炸米粉呈.米呈

With Chinese New Year just around the corner, I had the privilege to learn how to make traditional Hakka mi chang 米呈 (rice puff or bubble crackers) and mi fen chang 米粉呈 (bee hoon puff crackers). These crispy snacks are delicious, not too hard fun to make and can be enjoyed anytime, not only during Chinese New Year.

Teochew 7 Vegetables Dish on Chinese New Year Renri @ Ah Orh Seafood in Singapore 潮州七样菜 · 七样羹

In traditional Chinese New Year custom, besides the Cantonese lo hei yee sang 撈起魚生, there is the lesser known Teochew 7 Vegetables 潮州七样菜 dish which is growing in popularity.

Pineapple Tart Recipe 🍍 A Southeast Asian Chinese New Year Tradition 黄梨塔

Pineapple tart is a popular festive snack in Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia. Most Chinese homes have pineapple tarts during Chinese New Year as it is considered auspicious - pineapple 🍍 黄梨 in Hokkien "ong lai" sounds the same as "prosperity come" 旺来. I think its gold colour has a lot to do with it too. Their addictive delicious taste is icing on the cake tart! 😋

Poon Choi @ Plum Village. Best Hakka Restaurant in Singapore 梅村酒家.新春盆菜

Poon Choi 盆菜 is a Hakka tradition that has become synonymous with Chinese New Year celebrations of Chinese communities around the world.

Where to get Special Chinese New Year Dishes for Reunion Dinner. Singapore Chinatown Food Centre

Every year before Chinese New Year, the little zhi char stall in Singapore's Chinatown simply named "Claypot & Cooked Food Kitchen" serves up big restaurant style CNY celebratory dishes. It's a well kept secret among regulars.

Bee Chun Heng Bak Kwa 美珍香肉干(老鋪) 🦚 Peacock Logo

If you are in Singapore now, you will see many queues around the island - people lining up to buy bak kwa 肉干 for Chinese New Year. Eating bak kwa is a Chinese New Year custom in Singapore. Queueing for hours to buy bak kwa is also a CNY custom here 😄 Buddy brought me to Bee Chun Heng (Lau Po) 美珍香(老鋪) at 89, Frankel Avenue. 

Kim Hock Seng Bak Kwa. Artisanal BBQ Pork Slices 金福成肉乾

Bak Kwa 肉乾 or BBQ pork slices is extremely well loved in Singapore, and is the most popular food gift of visitors to the sunny island. Many Singaporeans also take along bak kwa as gifts when they visit friends and family overseas. During Chinese New Year, Singaporeans queue for hours to buy bak kwa for the holidays.

Chinese New Year Traditional Goodies. Kueh Kapit · Love Letters · Kueh Belanda 雞蛋捲

Of all the Chinese New Year goodies, my favourite is still kueh kapit or love letters. Light, crispy, sweet, eggy with coconut aroma, it brings back the most happy childhood memories of Chinese New Year. It's easy to lose count of the number of delicious love letters we crunched and munched away during the festivities.