Lunar New Year Lucky Foods

Lunar New Year kept simple by enjoying home-prepped veggies and soup with store-bought dumplings.

Lucky (Huat) Veggies - a variety of eight veggies for health and luck.


Eight, 8 regarded as the luckiest number in Chinese culture. In Mandarin, eight is pronounced as 'Ba' sounds like 'Fa', a word which means make a fortune, symbolic of prosperity.

Garlic: In Mandarin, garlic 蒜 sounds alike "count" 算 . Instead of focusing on just counting money, we should count all our blessings.

Hotpot-Inspired Soup with savory seafood balls and sweet napa cabbage.


Meatballs, fish balls, seafood balls: round/roundness represent completeness and reunion.

Even number suggest good things/tidings come in pairs.

Dumpling (Jiaozi)/ Wontons shaped like tael /ingot (money used by ancient Chinese) symbolizes prosperity, atop lucky healthy veggies, served with soup.