Lunar New Year is celebrated by more than 1 billion people around the globe. Here are recipes from five chefs in the Asian diaspora, explaining what these dishes mean to them and their heritage.
Chinese New Year (Imlek) is the most important celebration for Chinese people, with 16-day-long celebrations, commencing on the first day of the Chinese .
Already hotels in the towns of Singkawang and Pontianak, in West Kalimantan, report Full House facing this Chinese New Year and the Cap Go Meh Festivities in Singkawang.
Already hotels in the towns of Singkawang and Pontianak, in West Kalimantan, report Full House facing this Chinese New Year and the Cap Go Meh Festivities in Singkawang. And still, Sriwijaya Air has added extra flights from Jakarta to Pontianak to meet the ever growing demand.
The 15th day of the Lunar New Year, better known here as “Cap Go Meh”, – which this year falls on 14th February 2014, – forms the highlight of any Chinese New Year celebration in Indonesia. While this is most elaborately held in areas with a large ethnic Chinese population such as in Bangka-Belitung and Palembang or in the Chinatowns of Semarang, Surabaya, Jakarta, Bandung, Manado and Medan, yet the most fascinating festivities will take place in the exotic town of Singkawang just 145 km north of Pontianak , capital of West Kalimanta