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TIME TO CELEBRATE

Chinese New Year is the most important of all Chinese festivals, when families come together in celebration, to feast and set off fireworks.

It is commonly known as the spring festival in China because it marks the end of winter and the beginning of spring and represents the desire for new life.

Here, TV chef and cookery writer Ching-He Huang talks exclusively to HELLO! about the food and traditions that surround the festival…

Ching, celebrating with food and family is the main event of Chinese New Year. What comprises a typical meal?

“A banquet would include seaweed and prized seafood such as scallops. Dumplings are served, too, as a symbol of prosperity as their shape resembles ancient Chinese gold ingots. Noodles are

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