Early Chinese New Year Feast

Family Celebration for Chinese New Year

Due to logistical issues with many of Dumpling Girl's family running restaurants, we had to celebrate Chinese New Year early. So on another hot Sydney Summer's day we met to celebrate the coming year of the Rabbit.

Now let me tell you that Chinese people really know how to eat. Gazing at the feast presented before us on the table, I worked out that nearly every type of meat was present including chicken, duck, pork, beef, prawns, fish, sea cucumber, crab and scallops. Let me tell you that they were all delicious!

Century Old Egg with Tofu

Ginger and Shallot Crab with Longevity Noodles

Crab with Glass Noodles

Suckling Pig - skin that cracks in your mouth

Soy Chicken

Jellyfish with Duck

Traditional Chinese New Year Cupcakes :P

Traditional Chinese New Year Crackles :P

White Fungus with Black Sesame Balls

Peanut Cookies

Celebrating New Year in Chinese Australian culture is a truly delicious activity and more Australians should get involved. Perhaps by cooking your own versions of the food shown above.

The thing about celebrating Chinese New Year for me as an Aussie is that it is not the meal thats the most important thing. It is the coming together of 3 generations of the one family in the one place at the one time that makes the celebration truly memorable.

Cheesecake Boy signing out...