SAN FRANCISCO It s finally time for some good fortune! Lunar New Year feasts will look different this year, but traditions remain the same. One San Francisco restaurant wants customers to ring in the Year of the Ox with a table full of classic, lucky foods for a prosperous new beginning.
Located in SF s Outer Richmond District, family-owned Hong Kong Lounge serves as a Bay Area staple for classic dim sum. This Lunar New Year, the restaurant is offering various specialty items for takeout, including a giant pot of celebratory foods known as Poon Choi. This traditional dish overflows with special meats, seafood, and vegetables that symbolize wealth and fortune.
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Ring in the Year of the Ox with foods that bring luck and prosperity
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The Lunar New Year also known as Chinese New Year, Spring Festival, Tet Nguyen Dan, and Seollal falls on February 12 this year and is celebrated by millions of people around the world, including those in China, Korea, Japan, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Mongolia, Singapore, Vietnam, Malaysia, and here in Los Angeles.
Traditionally, celebrants return to their hometowns for 15 days to spend time with family, receive red envelopes full of money, and feast together. The celebration usually begins on New Years Eve, when many families come together for a reunion dinner to eat lucky foods in the hope of bringing prosperity and good fortune into the New Year. In many instances, what the dish’s name sounds like, how it’s prepared, or the way it’s served all adds an additional layer of auspiciousness to the dish.
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The Year of the Ox is approaching – so ring in Chinese New Year with a sumptuous feast!
Discover exciting menus featuring Cantonese delicacies specially curated by Cambodian Master Chef and entrepreneur Luu Meng and his culinary teams at Almond Hospitality’s Yi Sang Chinese Restaurant and Sevensea Seafood Restaurant.
For this year’s signature menus, Meng and his team spent months tracking down the very best ingredients across land and sea – from meat, seafood and local organic greens to giant sea cucumber and abalone.
Many big dinners will be centred on unique meats or seafood dishes that are expensive or otherwise hard to get hold of.
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Manulife Hong Kong is also calling on its people – including employees and agency force – to get involved in this cause by buying Manulife Healthy Boxed Meals with Soup from Gingko House. For every single meal they donate, Manulife will make a matching donation[1] to the charity cause.
The partnering organization, Gingko House, is a social enterprise creating jobs for elderly Hongkongers as part of its mission to deliver social benefits. The organization has provided free Lucky Rice boxed meals to the disadvantaged for years. With the COVID-19 outbreaks causing economic difficulties for many, the number of registered people picking up boxed meals from Gingko House rose to around 1,000 a day by the end of last year.
Restaurants and food retailers are creating Chinese New Year delights for those leaning towards a vegan, or plant-based, diet. Here is a sampling of what’s available to ring in the Year of the Ox.