Dishes eaten at Chinese
New Year carry great significance, as does the way a Burns Night supper
is presented. But these are not the only meals which represent something
to diners and the reasons we attach meaning are as myriad as the food
itself.
It seems odd that a small parcel of tasty filling encased in a light dough wrapper can represent so much.
But the jiaozi dumpling symbolises prosperity to diners, who
traditionally sit down for a family feast on the eve of Chinese New
Year. It also means wealth when the dumpling is crescent shaped, like
the gold ingot once used in ancient China as money.
Chinese chef Ching-He Huang says the centuries-old "lucky"
food traditions come from superstitions about feeding the spiritual
world, legends and history.
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