Chinese New Year Eve

As a traditional, when Chinese new year eve all the family member will gather to eat reunion dinner. This meal normally is called “tuan yuan fan’ or reunion rice. Rice being main staple of the Chinese.  This reunion dinner is normally eat at the night time and last day of the old year.

This is one of the important days for all Chinese because  many Chinese is live at others place so when the last day they will back to their hometown and have this reunion together will others family members.  Some Chinese make it a point to eat this meal also with their in-laws and extended family members. This is a time to renew and reaffirm family ties.

Chinese believe that having an excess of food on the table symbolises good fortune for the New Year, as it would bring excess wealth. Chinese will pay important in this day by preparing the food for the family members. Some of the traditional food as below:

• Dumpling:

Meat and vegetables are wrapped not with rice but with a skin made of flour. This is a food commonly eaten as a meal by itself in Beijing or northern parts of China today. Family members would participate in making the dumplings, which can be eaten throughout the New Year.

• Steamboat dinner:

This is popular in Singapore and Malaysia. A family sits around a pot of steaming soup, place uncooked pieces of food into it and fish it out when it's ready. This is an easily prepared dinner, since all is needed is to prepare the uncooked food and the soup.

• Black moss:

This is eaten as the name of the moss sounds like "to become prosperous" in Chinese.