Hong Kong New Year celebration

Hong Kong New Year celebration The celebration atmosphere of New Year and Chinese New Year is very great and enjoyable. We have firework every year at the radiant victoria harbor. The firework show is approximately 8 minutes. On that day, lots of people go to Tsim Sha Tsui, Central to have a seat first, then wait for hours there. The firework is really amazing. It is performed by guy who designs and produces firework booms. He is famous around the world.

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=PPuU6OiU2LI This link talks about the celebration in Hong Kong during New Year.

 Other than amazing firework, we have the most important chinese cakes to eat. Niangao (nin gou in Cantonese), sometimes translated as year cake or Chinese New Year's cake, is a food prepared from glutinous rice and consumed in Chinese cuisine. It is considered good luck to eat nian gao during this time, because "nian gao" is a homonym for "higher year." The Chinese word 粘 (nián), meaning "sticky", is identical in sound to 年, meaning "year", and the word 糕 (gāo), meaning "cake" is identical in sound to 高, meaning "high or tall". As such, eating nian gao has the symbolism of raising oneself taller in each coming year. My favourite cake is golden cake.

By Petra