The way we celebrate at home is very special. We will have a reunion dinner go visiting and we will receive lots of ang pow. Ang pow is a red packet where you put money in. Reunion dinner consists of a lot of people up to 12-17 or maybe just the family. We will also have lo hei.
For visiting,we will go to our relatives place and talk to them. My favourite part is reunion dinner because there will be lots of food that can only be eaten during CNY. For example,we will have sharks fin soup. It is very yummy and we are only able to eat it only CNY.
The picture is a nian gao. It is also called year cake or Chinese New Year cake. It is prepared from glutinous rice and can be consumed in Chinese cuisine. It is available in Asian supermarkets . It can be eaten all year round, traditionally it is most popular during Chinese New Year. it is considered good luck to eat nian gao during Chinese New Year, because "nian gao" is a homonym for "higher year". The Chinese word 粘(nian), meaning sticky, is is idendical in sound to 年 meaning "year", and the word 糕(gao), meaning "cake" is identical in sound to 高(gao), meaning "high". As such, eating nian gao has the symbolism of raising oneself higher in each year(年年高升nian nian gao sheng)
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