2009 Chinese New Year (Food Bazaar)

The Food:


Food prepared for Chinese New Year:



Year Cake - getting promotion every year!



Turnip (White Radish) Cake - good beginning!



Spring Candy - to welcome the arrival of Spring!



Melon Seed - a lot of children



Lotus Seed - having children continuously



Peanut - longevity



Large Tangerine - big luck and big profit (金橘子, jinju)



Spring roll - gold bar



Dumplings - silver ingot (餃子, jiǎozi)



Fish - having surplus every year (魚, yú)



Dragon eye (longan) - wealth and family reunion



Dates - having intelligent children soon



Hair seaweed - having a jockpot



Treasure bar - full of gold and jewelry



恭喜發財



Gōngxǐ fācái



"Congratulations and be Prosperous"





While the first two words of this phrase had a much longer historical significance, in practical terms involve surviving the harsh winter conditions.