Kung hei fat choi! What did you eat on Chinese New Year?
I was planning on ordering some of the traditional lucky foods of the day like dumplings and Buddha's delight, but by the time we finally got a table the lure of my beloved soup dumplings and roast tea duck was too great. What did you put in your belly?
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11 Comments:
this is so not traditional, but what the hey.
the eve: fuchsia dunlops' general tso's chicken, then later bobby' flay's pork tenderloin with guava glaze and mojo. except we didn't grill it because i didn't feel like standing at the grill in the cold. so we pan seared it and finished it in the oven.
the day: chicken wings, because what else does one eat while watching Nascar?
french tart at 8:27AM on 02/19/07
This year my wife and I hosted the immediate family for New Year's Dinner. Being Korean-American our culinary traditions differ a bit from the Chinese, but the idea about eating with hopes for good fortune are the same. You can read more about our meal at my blog and see photos at flickr.
Young at 10:10AM on 02/19/07
Pizza with pepperoni, onions and green peppers, followed with a leftover almond cookie.
Acme Instant Food at 11:56AM on 02/19/07
On the eve of we ate at my parents' house where my dad and mom cooked up lots of stir-fried veggies with shrimp, roast pork and cha siu from Chinatown stores, fun see (clear noodle-y things) and jai (general veggie dish that the more truly devoted also make on the first and fifteenth of each lunar month - you probably know it as "Buddha's delight" or "monk's dish"). For the first meal of the new year it was all vegetarian - jai, cauliflower, fa choy soup with tofu, etc - it all added up to nine dishes total. I regret that I was unable to stay for dinner, but that would have been about the same, but with meat. It was all very, very good.
My parents had also made pastries for the new year - crunchy rosettes, nian gow (I have no idea how to explain this one), deep fried dumplings filled with peanuts and sugar, faht tae (it looks like a muffin but with a different texture), and other dumplings.
I LOVE this time of year.
toastykitten at 12:03PM on 02/19/07
homemade spring rolls with shitake mushrooms, chinese leeks, shredded pork. homemade turnip cakes, and we spent the day handmaking our own dumplings froms scratch with squash, pork, shrimp...mm...i love chinese new year. so many other things that im too busy eating to describe right now..!!
sassysprite at 3:14PM on 02/19/07
Pho Tai at Pho Grand in Manhattan
Decent pho; I hear the best in NYC. Best I'd had in NYC but then again, Vietnamese food in NYC pales in comparison to what you'd find on the west coast and even D.C.; NOT TO MENTION Saigon, Hanoi, Hoi An, etc. In Saigon, I lived next to the city's most famous Banh Xeo restaurant. Before that I lived around the corner from a string of seafood restaurants... tastiest shrimp with garlic ever! Oh, NYC has great food but I miss eating in Vietnam.
NSW at 3:20PM on 02/19/07
We went with egg rolls and pork pot stickers for appetizers, then ham as the main dish since it's the year of the pig/boar.
jonfoxx at 5:11PM on 02/19/07
We had a steamboat on 2 portable burners out in the backyard, with lots of marinated chicken, pork and beef, pork and chive dumplings, fake prawns (for my seafood-allergic bro-in-law), 4 kinds of noodles, rice, 3 kinds of green veg, 2 kinds of mushroom and quail eggs.
turkiyaki at 9:36PM on 02/19/07
My family made (from scratch) turnip cake, pork and chive dumplings (boiled), braised pork shoulder, and steamed lettuce (without the "fat choy" because of recent articles from HK and China citing that there are companies that artificially "enhance" the color of that stuff).
tina.w at 10:20PM on 02/19/07
It's the year of the pig, so naturally went to Blue Smoke for some BBQ :)
hyperham at 10:27AM on 02/20/07
I had jai as well and I sampled a couple slices of my mom's five spice pork. Mmmm....
JadedOne at 4:27PM on 02/20/07