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Chinese New Year rice cake or Nian Gao on the table. Also popular as Kue Keranjang or Dodol China. Food for celebrating Chinese Or Lunar New Year

Chinese New Year ornament with spring roll and Gold ingot, blessing Wealthy, and good luck

Close-up of a bowl of mix colors Chinese Tang Yuan dessert served on white porcelain bowl on of Chinese New Year

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A variety of Chinese dim sum pastries and egg tarts are displayed on a shelf in a restaurant.

$Pai Ti Kong is celebrated on the 8th day of the first month of Lunar calendar. It is a festival of particular significant to Hokkien people (subgroup of Chinese) because it is the birthday of the Jade Emperor who protected the Hokkien people from being massacred.\n\nOn this night, the Hokkiens set up a table draped in a red tablecloth with variety of food which are to serve to the Jade Emperor. Some of the most popular items they must have are sweet cakes red tortoise buns, prosperity cakes and bright pink miniature pagodas. Stickers with Chinese characters like “prosperity” and “happiness” were sticked on the fruits and food to resemble good wealth, luck, health for the family in the whole year.\n\nAlso particularly relevant are the piles of gold paper folded into the old-style shape of money. These papers are hung from the sugarcanes before being burnt as a thanksgiving offering to the Thien Kong. After these gold papers are set ablaze, the family members then took the stalks of sugarcane from the altars nd threw them into the flames.$