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15/02/2023

In a Chinese restaurant, the order of serving dishes is as follows:
cold dishes, drinks, hot dishes, and staple food.

In some restaurants, tea is served first and it is free. Some restaurants offer different kinds of tea, which are very good, however, you have to pay for it.

Chinese like to drink tea over a meal, either before or after.

15/02/2023

In China, we eat 3 meals a day: breakfast, lunch and dinner.
we believe that breakfast should be good, lunch should be enough, and dinner should be small. As the saying goes, a fine breakfast, a full lunch and a small dinner.

02/02/2023

The Lantern Festival is held on the 15th of the first lunar month.
People make paper lanterns and eat sweet dumplings made with glutinous rice flour. At night people go outside, display their lanterns, and set off fireworks. In many places, there are lion and dragon dances.

31/01/2023

Kumquats 金桔 (jīn jú)

The English name of this golden fruit comes from its Cantonese pronunciation gam kwat, which translates literally to “golden tangerine.” As you may guess, this fruit is popular in Southern China, especially Hong Kong and other Cantonese-speaking regions. Guangdong is known to be the home of kumquats.

The character 桔 (jú), or “tangerine,” looks similar to 吉 (jí), which means “luck,” while the golden color is festive and represents wealth and fortune. Add to that the fruit’s delicious flavor on its own and in various desserts, and it’s really no wonder why so many will buy a small tree to plant in their homes during Chinese New Year!

Other auspicious plants include mandarin oranges (桔子 / júzi), which are popular for the same reasons as kumquats, chrysanthemum flowers and peaches.

26/01/2023

Highlight on the must eat for Festival- Noodles

n some places, it’s custom to cook dumplings and noodles together. This is called gold silk and gold ingots. It’s yet another dish to express people’s wishes for prosperity.

Though the origin of noodles is heavily disputed, there’s no doubt that noodles are a staple in Chinese cuisine.

26/01/2023

Highlight on Paper Cutting Arts 窗花 (chuāng huā)

Paper cutting is a folk craft that can be seen in every season, but are especially prominent during the Spring Festival. Usually seen on windows, the literal translation its name is “window flower.” The craftsmen will painstakingly create these beautiful works and paste them on using sticky rice glue.

These decorations are usually of auspicious symbols and words and made of red paper. Images include fish, peaches, grains, dragons, phoenixes and more. Some, such as fish, are puns for blessings. Others, like dragons and peaches, are symbols from folktales and legends. Grains and related images, on the other hand, represent hopes for a good harvest.

26/01/2023

This is a limited coupon for Chinese food in celebration of the Chinese New Year.
Traditionally, Chinese celebrate the new year for 16 days from the new year‘s eve to Lantern Festival.

During the Festival between Jan 21st to Feb 5th, if you are:
1.Looking for a decent place to experience classic Chinese food;
2.Being into Chinese food and exploring more on authentic taste of Chinese food.
3.Trying to find out the Chinese New Year traditional dishes recommended by local Chinese.
4.Big fans of Chinese culture and know well about Chinese food.

Don’t miss out our valuable offer for your family and friends.

The meal includes 4 typical dishes + 8 dumplings. You have two options
Menu A - Classic : Recommended to all
Menu B- Spicy Fans: Recommend to spicy-challengers
The meal’s original price is €76. Get €10 off by contacting us for the exclusive code.

How to get the discount：
1. Contact Sino Spot on FB , make a reservation and get the voucher code
2. Pay directly in the restaurant for the set menu when you visit.
3. Extra order can be paid in addition with this menu upon request.

Attention: The menu is carefully selected from both traditional and popular perspectives with extensive culture behind, it could not be changed. We hope you have a pleasant experience, and thank you for your understanding.

25/01/2023

Highlight on Temple Fair

The temple fair is a kind of gathering near a Buddhist or Taoist temple for people to offer sacridices to a god. Amuse themselves and trade goods. It is a folk festival bearing strong tradtional cultural characteristics.

In ancient China, a large number of belivers would gather together in a temple whenever there was a sacrificial ceremony, attacting vendors of various goods to set up their stalls around the temple. As time went by, the temple fair became a recresational market activity rather than simply a religious one.

The temple fair is charaterized by various kinds of snacks, folk commodities and recreations, such as the sugar-coated haws on a stick, quick-fired tripe, windmill toys, “lord rabbit”, ringtoss and shooting games at the temple fairs.

25/01/2023

On the 2nd day of the new year, many places in the north will sacrifice to the God of Wealth. People will rush to the Temple of the God of Wealth to burn "head pillar incense" to pray for prosperous business and wealth in the New Year.

In the past, pilgrims came to wait outside the temple in the middle of the night in order to compete for the "top pillar incense". After the offering of incense, some red velvet flowers, gold-cut paper flowers, and gold ingots with the words "Fu" and "Shou" written on them would be invited from the Temple, which means, the blessings and fouturn are brought home.

If you gain fortune in the upcoming year, you have to go to the temple to fulfill your wish, send the paper gold ingots you "invited" home last year back to the temple, and double purchase paper gold ingots, as a result,temple will also make a fortune as a return.

If you are a business person, when offering sacrifices to the God of Wealth, there are usually five offerings of whole pigs, whole sheep, whole chickens, whole ducks, and red live carp, which are also called "five offerings" to pray for blessings. Wishing a fortune in the coming year.

23/01/2023

Highlight on Custom - Visit birth parents

Today is the 2nd day of the 1st month in Lunar Calendar. On this day, married daughters usually visit their parents’ home on the second day of the Chinese New Year. For husbands, it is also a day they visit their parents in law with his wife.

Traditionally, married daughter didn’t have the opportunity to visit their families frequently. In old days, since married daughters are considered as outsider and no longer belonging to their parents’ family, they are not required to come back for reunion dinner on the New Year Eve or come back on the first day of the New Year.

However, as men and women are more equal now, people are not really following this custom.It becomes more free and may vary from couples with agreement on where to spend for the New Year in turn.

23/01/2023

Highlight on 福[Fú]

As a play on words, many like to put 福[Fú] upside down. The word for “upside down” (倒 / Dào) is a homophone of “here” (到).
This pun represents that good fortune is coming, or is already here.

23/01/2023

Highlight on 福[Fú]

Chinese people decorate by hanging up certain words. The most common word is 福[Fú] which means happiness and good fortune.

It is written with calligraphy onto a square piece of red paper, 福[Fú] is often incorporated into other decorations, such as paper cuttings and paintings. These can then all be pasted onto walls, doors or windows.

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