Name of the New Year’s Eve dinner set menu for the Year of the Tiger:
1. Egg dumplings
On the Anhui people’s New Year’s Eve dinner table, egg dumplings are indispensable! The shape of the golden egg dumplings resembles a gold ingot, which means "attracting wealth" and also means wishing for good luck in the new year.
2. Sausage and bacon
As soon as the twelfth lunar month arrives, every household begins to pickle sausage and bacon, which has become an indispensable delicacy in the Spring Festival banquet! The bacon tastes like a unique fruity aroma, is fat but not greasy, and has a mellow taste. It can be eaten steamed or stir-fried.
3. Braised Pork
Every Chinese New Year, there is always a bowl of braised pork at home. The braised pork cooked at home is all pork belly, and the coloring mainly depends on soy sauce, so that it can taste soft and hard.
4. Green vegetable and tofu soup
A must-have soup during the Chinese New Year - green vegetable and tofu soup, which means "safety and peace" and good luck. After eating too much fish and meat, the last dish of green vegetable and tofu soup, which is white and green, and has a refreshing clear soup, will immediately make people feel refreshed.
5. Old hen soup
Old hen soup is a must-have dish on every Chinese New Year dinner table! Simmer for about 3 hours until the chicken is deboned. The chicken soup tastes delicious and nutritious!
6. Steamed pork with rice flour
Steamed pork with rice flour has the meaning of "steaming". The meat is glutinous and fragrant, crisp and refreshing, fat and lean, red and white, tender but not greasy, and the rice noodles are oily and rich in flavor.
7. Fried hairtail
Dry-fried hairtail is a dish made from hairtail and flour. It is delicious, crispy and attractive, suitable for all ages, and not easy to get stuck. It is one of the favorite dishes of Hefei people during the Spring Festival.
8. Stir-fried meat with celery
Because "celery" and "diligence" are homophonic, eating celery also hopes that the children in the family will be hardworking and brave. Only hard work can lead to a good life.
9. Cold Preserved Eggs
Don’t underestimate this home-cooked cold dish. People without some cooking skills can’t bring out the unique taste, so we make it for New Year’s Eve dinner every year. The arduous task falls on the shoulders of the most skilled cook in the family.
10. Braised silver carp
In Chinese culture, fish and "yu" are homophones. You are not allowed to use chopsticks to eat on New Year's Eve. You have to put them out until the third On the second day of the Lunar New Year, usually not all the fish will be eaten, but a little will be left symbolically, which means "more than enough every year".
11. Fried dumplings
Usually a few days before the Chinese New Year, family members will be busy preparing ingredients to make fried dumplings, and these "yuanzi" symbolize reunion and good luck. The editor's favorite is the vermicelli dumplings, which are delicious, crispy on the outside and soft and chewy on the inside.
12. Sweet and Sour Pork Ribs
This dish is really children’s favorite! As soon as the colorful, sweet and sour pork ribs are served, you will be left with an empty plate if you don’t pay attention!