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Article: Shanghai New Year's dinner. (includes menu and recipe)
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- Sunset
- Article date:
- February 1, 1994
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CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 1994 Sunset Publishing Corp. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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Usher in the year 4692 with a menu of good omens
WHEN YOU WALK INTO Sue Yung Li's home to celebrate Chinese New Year--which begins on February 10 this year and lasts two weeks--she stacks the deck in favor of good fortune. Symbols of luck, wealth, long life, and prosperity surround her guests.
She capitalizes on her dramatic flair as a filmmaker and landscape architect to display these omens. A shower of coins covers the thick rug, baskets of gold-wrapped sweets shine, red ribbons bind the stems of white narcissus, and branches of red quince blossoms mass in profusion.
Coins and shiny wrappers portend wealth. Sprouting bulbs represent new life; red is ...