Chinese New Year food for good fortune As much as Chinese New Year traditions are centered on family, ... puts it in soup, roasts the ribs and also prepares a special wine-braised pork belly.

About 3,000 years ago, give or take a couple of decades, the Chinese people began celebrating the beginning of their calendar year with a joyful festival they called Lunar New Year.

Lunar New Year 2025: What Chinese Zodiac animal to celebrate, info about the Year of the Snake Lunar New Year 2025, the Year of the Snake, runs Jan. 30, 2025, to Feb. 16, 2025.

Its ubiquity may be why it isn’t often served for the special feasts of Chinese New Year, also known as Lunar New Year, which this year falls on Jan. 22 and ushers in the Year of the Rabbit.

Corresponding with the first new moon of 2020, Chinese New Year – also known as Lunar New Year or Spring Festival – occurs on Saturday. It ushers in the year of the rat, the first animal of ...

Related: 4 new, notable coffee shops in North Texas Pork dumplings served during a Chinese New Year party in Dallas on Saturday, Feb. 2, 2020. (Ben Torres / Special Contributor) Advertisement ...

Congee’s association with thriftiness and poverty makes it an inauspicious food to eat during Chinese new year celebrations. -- Photo: Shutterstock via SCMP 1.

A tradition for the Chinese New Year is to leave out food for the kitchen god to ensure a prosperous year. Food writer Grace Young talks about the reasons for putting food on the altar —and some ...

When it comes to the Year of Earth Pig, which begins on Feb. 5, food choices are anything but limited. Consider chef Morimoto’s menu at Momosan NYC at 342 Lexington Ave., which features pork ...

Celebrity Chef Dale Talde commemorates the new year with a few special dishes from January 29 to February 1, ... From 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. on February 1, the Hudson River Museum holds a day full of ...