8 Chinese New Year Treats That Will Bring You Luck

Gong xi fa cai!
by Andy Flores | February 05, 2019

Round and golden, tangerines are hard to miss on tables during the Lunar New Year. In Chinese, the word “orange” or “tangerine” sounds like the Chinese word for “success” and one of the ways of writing “tangerine” in Mandarin (桔) contains the character for luck (吉), so associating the fruit with good luck and fortune is pretty much inevitable.

 

Hétáosū (核桃酥) – Happiness