The Chinese New Year is coming soon. The new year's Eve dinner on New Year's Eve is the most important meal for the members of the Chinese New Year's League. Due to different regional customs, many local new year's Eve meals have their own local characteristics, and there are many differences in eating between the South and the north. Of course, the traditional eating customs of new year's Eve dinner are also different. So what do you eat for the northern New Year's Eve dinner? Let's take a look at the traditional food and customs menu of the northern New Year's Eve dinner.
What do you eat for the northern New Year's Eve dinner
Dumplings
On New Year's Eve in the north, make more dumplings to eat, which means "Geng Sui Jiaozi" with a homonym. For luck, northerners often pack coins, sugar, peanuts, dates, chestnuts and meat stuffing into new year's dumplings. The purpose of putting sugar is to eat sweet new year's day; The purpose of putting peanuts is that people can live longer after eating them; There is also a coin in the dumpling, which means that whoever eats it will be 'prosperous'. Dumplings look like Yuanbao. In the new year, noodles and dumplings are boiled together, which is called 'gold thread wearing Yuanbao'.
Bean paste
In the new year's meal of Beijingers, there is a traditional dish that has to be mentioned - "bean paste". This dish is still a household name for old Beijingers. " Bean paste 'is a cold dish made of meat skin, dried tofu, soybeans, green beans and water mustard. It is refreshing and delicious. It can be used with wine and appetizer.
Fire stew
In the Northeast People's New Year meal, pork stewed vermicelli is one of the big dishes with full weight. The vermicelli used is rolled with northeast specialty potato starch.
Steamed buns
The better the fermentation of steamed bread in the new year, the more prosperous the next year will be. Steamed bread in the new year is different from steamed bread at ordinary times. Many say that the better the fermentation of steamed bread in the new year, the more prosperous the next year will be. The "Fa" of "Fa mian" means "fa cai" and "steaming" symbolize the "prosperity" of life.