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Heritage Foods Pork

Gung hei fat choi! Chinese New Year is upon us, a time to embrace the new, to welcome prosperity and fortune in for a new year.

That’s nice. What’s for dinner?

The Chinese have many culinary traditions at this time of year, such as eating fish;  steamed is the way to go, whether you’re cooking up a filet of halibut or a whole fish. Candy is also traditional, as it symbolically “sweetens” the new year.

But as it’s the dawn of the Year of the Pig, we think it’s only appropriate to celebrate our porcine pal in the way we know best: by eating him. And lest you think that pork be off limits during this year, take heart: According to the San Jose Mercury News, there’s no sacred pig.

“So few animals of the Lunar New Year are foodstuff,” says Shirley Fong-Torres, who leads food-culture tours of San Francisco’s Chinatown. “Pork is such a staple for us. How can we say `no’ during the new year? The pig will consider it an honor — or so we hope.”


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