Lucky Foods for New Year People almost all over the world believe eating lucky food for New Year would bring luck and prosperity for the coming 365 days. Each country and culture has their own listing of Lucky Foods for New Year.
Long Noodles
Long Noodles are part of Asian countries traditional lucky foods for New Year. It signifies long life as the noodles are not cut or broken during the preparation.
Beans
Beans signify money particularly coins. Have a dish made of black beans, green peas, black-eyed peas or any beans that symbolizes lots of money.
Pork
Pork symbolizes progress in countries including Hungary, Cuba, Portugal, Spain, and Austria. They believe that these animals mean progress because they never move backwards.
It is why it is regarded as lucky foods for New Year. Pork can be prepared in many other ways such as cakes and cookies shaped like pigs.
Round Fruits are part of lucky foods for New Year in Asian culture. In Europe there must be 12 round fruits each New Year eve, in Philippines it must be 13 that all symbolizes money all year round.
Pomegranates
Pomegranates are believed to bring good luck and fortune from its color to its seeds. Its medicinal attributes are perfect for health, red color means life and fertility while the seeds represent prosperity.
Whole Fish
Fish means "abundance," in Chinese according to a Chinese cuisine expert, Doris Lum. Rosemary Gong the author of Good Luck Life mentions to include the whole part of the fish from head to tail that means prosperity from beginning to end of the year.
Green
Green vegetables such as kale, collards and cabbage are lucky foods for New Year for people in coastal American South to Europe. Eating these foods on New Year's Eve signifies money because of its color. The more you eat, the more you'll have good health and good fortune on the upcoming year.
Cake
According to RD.com, ring shaped Cakes are lucky foods for New Year that means progress and prosperity is continue and no ending for the upcoming 365 days.
What lucky foods for New Year do you have in your table?