What do people around the world eat on New Year's Day?

(Baonghean.vn) - Traditional dishes of countries around the world on New Year's Day have many different meanings, but all wish for prosperity, peace, health and luck.

1. America: On New Year's Day, Americans have Hoppin' John, a dish consisting of beans, green vegetables, and white rice. The beans represent luck, the rice brings prosperity, and the green color represents money, bringing wealth and abundance.

2. Russia: Russians eat a lot of food on New Year's Day. Salads, meat, and toast are indispensable dishes. Salted herring salad with vegetables, eggs, and beets covered with mayonnaise is a dish that everyone must eat on New Year's Day.

"Herring under a fur coat" is one of the most famous Russian salads.

3. France: On New Year's Day, French people often have parties with their families outside of restaurants. Traditional dishes are fully prepared and people do not have to worry about missing anything. One of them, the cream puff tower is an indispensable dish.

4. Germany: Germans believe that the green color of cabbage will bring luck and prosperity. Pigs are indispensable animals in daily life, they are considered progressive animals. A dish of pork and cabbage will bring development and advancement in the new year.

5. Ireland: In the past, to fight against famine, Irish people often made very large loaves of bread to store for later consumption. Now, to remember the difficult days gone by, people often eat bread spread with butter on New Year's.

Turkish people believe that eating pomegranates will bring good luck.

6. Turkey: Pomegranates symbolize good fortune in Türkiye. Their red color represents the heart, representing fertility. The pomegranate seeds symbolize prosperity and abundance for the new year.

7.Greece:In Greece, on New Year's Day, there is a Vassilopita, a large, round, dark brown bread. Inside this bread is a coin. On the first day of the New Year, whoever eats the piece of bread with the coin inside will have good luck and fortune in the following year.

8. Norway: At the New Year's party, colorful puddings made of eggs, sugar and fresh milk will be carefully prepared. They skillfully put almonds in any pudding. Whoever eats the pudding with almonds inside will be prosperous and rich all year.

9. Netherlands:Olie Bollen is an indispensable New Year’s cake in the Netherlands. It is made from flour, eggs and fruits such as pineapple, apples or grapes. After being shaped into a circle, the cake is fried in hot oil and finally sprinkled with a little powdered sugar on top, making it look very beautiful.

Italians celebrate the New Year with Lasagna.

10. Italy:Italians celebrate the New Year with Lasagna. This is a dish of pasta sheets stacked on top of each other in many layers, with cheese, sauce, meat and some vegetables in between. This dish symbolizes luck and happiness in the New Year.

11. Hungary:Carp soup is the Hungarian dish of choice, the scales of which are believed to bring good fortune and luck. The dish is prepared several days before the New Year’s Eve party to enhance the flavour, is very spicy and is often served with boiled noodles or bread.

12. Denmark:Danes celebrate the New Year with steamed cod with mustard sauce. Cod is a highly fertile fish, so Danes use this dish as a wish for a prosperous new year, with lots of children and grandchildren.

13. India: According to Hinduism, on New Year's Day, every dining table is always filled with many delicious dishes. The food is served with dry sugar made from raw palm trees, sugarcane, and dates. Meanwhile, the end of the meal is white rice with lentils. For Indians, lentils bring prosperity and success in the New Year.

14. Iran:During the New Year, Persians often pay great attention to everything related to rebirth. On the dining table there must be 7 dishes symbolizing 7 different things, such as vinegar dishes (love and patience), apples (health and beauty), pomegranates (fertility), herbs (new beginnings)... For the Kuku sabzi dish made from eggs and green vegetables, it means abundance and growth in the new year.

Soba noodles are an indispensable dish during the first days of the new year in Japan.

15. Japan:The Japanese often use mochi cakes made from glutinous rice and white rice to worship the gods. Some dishes such as rice mixed with black beans, herring, rice rolls, soba noodles... are indispensable dishes in the first days of the new year, especially the longer you eat soba noodles, the longer you will live.

16. China:For the Chinese, the word for “fish” sounds similar to the word for “abundance.” For that reason, people in this country often eat fish during the New Year. The fish are prepared with both the head and tail, in the hope of a year full of abundance and fulfillment from beginning to end.

16. South Korea: During the first days of the new year, Koreans will cook Tteokguk soup (including rice flour, beef broth, beef, and green onions). All family members will gather together to enjoy this soup to pray for good health and luck in the new year.

17. Mongolia:The indispensable lucky food of the Mongolians is cakes and mare's milk. During the New Year, they are also present in their meals but with more care. They are hot dumplings filled with lamb, served with fermented mare's milk or hot tea. People will also gather to celebrate the New Year in a cozy atmosphere, praying for a prosperous and peaceful year.

Yu Sheng is a popular dish during Tet in Chinese-speaking countries such as Malaysia, Singapore... Yu Sheng includes many types of chopped vegetables and thinly sliced ​​raw fish.

18.Singapore, Malaysia:A famous traditional dish of Singapore and Malaysia during the New Year is Yu Sheng. It is a salad with raw salmon and many types of shredded vegetables such as papaya, taro, grapefruit, pickled ginger... When the dish is served, some red envelopes will be placed on the side, the diner will stir everything up as high as possible, but not let it fall out and shout lohei (which means both to mix well and to be prosperous) then mix in the sauce and enjoy.

19. Laos:The first meal of the Lao New Year cannot be without lap. In Lao, lap means fortune. This dish is made from fresh chicken or beef, served with sticky rice. During the New Year, the Lao meal cannot be without lap, with the meaning of praying for abundant fortune in the new year.

20. Cambodia:The famous lucky dish during Cambodia’s Chol Chnam Thmay is curry. On New Year’s Day, at least one person in each household brings food to the temple to ask the monks to make offerings to their ancestors, then the whole family gathers together to enjoy the fragrant curry.

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