CAPE COD TIMES
While no excuse is needed ever! to enjoy Chinese food, the next two weeks are an especially good time to indulge as people around the world welcome the Lunar New Year with celebrations and traditionally lucky foods.
The Year of the Ox begins Feb. 12 and continues through Feb. 26, culminating with the Lantern Festival.
In years past, New Peking Palace in Falmouth has greeted the Lunar New Year with a buffet containing lucky foods, such as fish to increase prosperity, dumplings for wealth, sweet rice balls for family togetherness and happiness and long, unbroken noodles for longevity.
Click here for a detailed description of these foods, and how they are to be eaten (two fish, one on New Year eve and one on the day.)
“ Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house, not a creature was stirring …”
While Clement C. Moore’s Christmas poem still holds up for many businesses that close their doors for the holidays, there is one category of places that have traditionally been open and bustling on both Christmas Eve and Christmas Day: Chinese restaurants.
“No delivery, but we are open for takeout,” says Yeow Yong, manager of Chen’s Kitchen in Sagamore Beach.
A week later, Chinese restaurants will be there for New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day celebrations, too. So if you need a break from cooking holiday feasts, the region s Asian restaurants offer some choices.