It is often considered the most important get-together meal of the entire year.
[2] The Chinese New Year's Eve and Chinese New Year's reunion dinner is very large and traditionally includes dumplings, chicken, and pork.
Fish (魚, yú; Vietnamese: Con cá) is also included, but intentionally (except for Vietnam) not finished, and the remaining fish is stored overnight.
Similarly, a type of black hair-like algae, "fat choy" (髮菜, fǎ cài, literally "hair vegetable" in Chinese), is also featured in many dishes since its name sounds similar to "prosperity"(發財, fā cái).
Hakka will serve "kiu nyuk" 扣肉 and "ngiong tiu fu" 釀豆腐.