Bitter melon soup - sadness passes and joy comes
Our ancestors believed that this dish expresses its meaning right from its name. "Bitter melon" means that all suffering will pass and welcome the good things to come.
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| Bitter melon soup stuffed with meat. |
Bitter melon soup is a popular dish in family meals because of its cooling and nutritious properties, helping to purify the body. You can stuff bitter melon with catfish, minced meat or cook it with spare ribs...Braised pork belly - reunion and prosperity
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| Braised pork is a traditional dish during Tet. |
Braised pork with duck eggs is a Southern dish for Tet. The pot of braised pork with duck eggs is soft and moist, the red duck eggs inside and the shimmering golden broth represent reunion, prosperity, abundance and "fertility" in the new year.This dish is eaten with rice, adding raw vegetables, onions, and pickled cabbage.
Gac sticky rice - prosperity and good luck
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| Gac sticky rice |
Sticky rice with gac fruit is usually orange-red, which means the bright sunlight of dawn. The bright orange-red color also represents brilliance and the wish for a prosperous new year. That color is the color of good luck.Boiled chicken - a smooth start with golden fortune
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| Boiled chicken for a good start and all the best. |
This dish is first of all to show respect to heaven and earth, ancestors. Then it is the wish to pray for good things in the new year. The golden, shiny chicken skin, the tender, sweet, juicy chicken meat with the wish for a smooth start to the new year, full of wealth.Round fruits - full of happiness all year round
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| Round fruits. |
Fruits such as grapefruit, watermelon, apple, kumquat... which are round and juicy are always favored on the first day of the year, because they are likened to fullness and happiness. In particular, sweet and juicy fruits represent fullness and abundance.Fish dishes
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| Fish dishes. |
Fish dishes such as carp, snakehead fish, mackerel, tuna... are often popular. Fish is easy to prepare and low in fat, so most families choose to buy it on New Year's Day.
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