Lunar New Year, also called the Chinese New Year Festival, is a time for friends and families to gather, feast, and wish for a prosperous new year. The delicacies on the table during this festive season are deeply symbolic, and they are supposed to commemorate unity as well as wealth and good fortune. Whether you are in your home, apartment or busy looking on ready for occupancy condo, celebrating the Chinese new year has been part of Filipino tradition. Except for setting up banners and balloons for your home and condo design, preparing foods and dishes in this festive season will always be the highlight of any celebration, as well the way to happiness for every one of us.
Traditional dishes often symbolize better luck for the future and they promise a satisfying meal here and now on our tables. These Chinese New Year recipes are sure to make your feast one to remember, whether you cook traditional meals that symbolize prosperity and longevity or gather around the table with modern interpretations of the classics.
Cooking dishes might take too much space and time in your condo living space, even planning and thinking about what to cook and prepare can take your time too much. So here are the ten easiest traditional dishes you can prepare this coming Chines New Year;
Tikoy
It is the most popular Lunar New Year dessert in the Philippines, and it is as well-known as the Chinese New Year's cake nian gao in other countries. It is produced from sticky or glutinous rice flour, which is then combined with fat, water, and sugar. Even non-Chinese Filipinos buy tikoy in boxes during this time of year to give to business associates. Store-bought tikoy is chilled in the refrigerator to make it easy to slice into small pieces. The tikoy slices are dipped in a bowl of beaten eggs and then fried in oil.
Pansit
Uncut noodles are served for long life. Long noodles symbolize long life, and there are endless variations for the holiday dish, the two favorite noodle dishes during the Chinese New Year in the Philippines are pancit bihon and pancit canton. It is a mixture of egg noodle dishes with chicken, vegetables, shrimp, and Chinese sausage. It is one of the Filipino traditional food, you will always see this dish prepared on every special occasion.
A Whole Fish
Steamed Lapu-Lapu (grouper) drizzled in a sweet soy-ginger sauce. Dishes that are homophones for phrases that represent good fortune are offered to bring wealth and happiness in the future year. For instance, the Chinese term for "fish" sounds similar to the English term "surplus," which means wealth.
Hopia
It is a red bean pastry that is frequently filled with a sweet mung bean paste. The most prevalent shape is round, and the Chinese consider everything round to be a symbol of good fortune. It's like a little version of the moon cakes served at the Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival.
Lumpia
These are spring rolls or egg rolls that Fukien Chinese immigrants brought to the Philippines and Indonesia. This spring roll dish quickly turned into a Filipino favorite. You’ll find it a staple in parties and is now better known as Lumpiang Shanghai.
Chopsuey
In the Philippines, there are many Chinese-influenced foods that are popular. One of these is the Chop Suey Recipe. Chopsuey literally translates to "mixed bits" because it's made with a thickened starchy sauce and a variety of bite-size stir-fried vegetables. Chicken, pork, shrimp, and vegetables like cabbage, celery, bean sprouts, and carrots make up this dish. You can also add other vegetables to your dish if you want.
Chinese Beef Broccoli
The cancer-fighting broccoli, heart-healthy garlic, and lean meat are all diced up and stir-fried in a nonstick skillet before being cooked in a wonderful, fragrant brown sauce that delicately envelops the meat and vegetables. This meal requires very little oil, yet it has a lot of flavors. The secret to the Chinese Beef Broccoli Recipe's big taste is in the browning of the beef, and a secret ingredient sesame oil used often as a flavoring in Asian dishes.
Sweet and Sour Pork. It is a Chinese dish that is popular in Cantonese cuisine and may be seen on menus all around the world. There's no need to order this delectable dish from a restaurant when you can make it at home. Rice vinegar, brown sugar, and ketchup are used to make the sweet and sour sauce. Red and green bell peppers, carrots, and red onions are used to add flavor to the dish and complement the pork, making it even more enjoyable.
Siomai
It is a dimsum with Chinese origins that many Filipinos enjoy. Different types of siomai can be ordered, but pork is always the base. The ground meat should have some fat otherwise the cooked siomai will be too tough. If preferred, prawns or shrimp can be used in place of some of the pork.
Pecking Duck
Peking Roast Duck is a well-known duck dish from Beijing, China, that has been served since the imperial era and is now regarded as one of the country's national dishes. The thin, crispy skin of the meal is praised, and authentic versions of the dish serve mostly the skin and very little meat, which the cook slices in before of the guests. Peking duck, ginger, plum or Hoi Sin sauce, cucumber, and onions are all wrapped up in warm pancakes in our Peking Duck Recipe. As a beginning, this is ideal!
Chinese New Year is the time of year that shows the camaraderie of two equally remarkable cultures. Every year that we celebrate the festive event we are reminded of how special the bond is between the Filipino and Filipino-Chinese communities. Whether you celebrate at home, in your condo living area, or on the street, you cannot efface the fact that this season is remarkable. Though both have different backgrounds and beliefs, the celebration brings everyone together like a family.
As pandemic still envelopes our country many of us are keeping ourselves in the four corners of our home, condo design space, and apartment. Despite being on our attribute, we can still take part in Chinese New Year festivity by blessing our home with traditional foods and dishes that symbolize wealthiness, prosperity, and blessings and most importantly, celebrating with our family members are the luckiest fortune we can show and embrace. I have learned through the years, that the spirit of Chinese New Year and other festive seasons remains alive not because of the food or place. It always comes down to the people we celebrate it with.
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