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Cutting back on Chinese New Year's?
- January 26, 2009 11:41 AM |
- By Tara Kimura
By Tara Kimura, CBCNews.ca
Banquet hall feast or cozy family get-together? Stuffed or slim red envelope? These are some questions Canadians considered leading up to Chinese New Year's.
CBC News' Lucy Lopez reports that while the Year of the Ox represents prosperity, many consumers are hoping to spend a little less this year.
"The customers are more picky about details like food quality and prices. It is not that easy to take even one penny out their pockets," said Yang Jing, marketing manager of Markham's Quanjude Peking Duck Restaurant.
Tell us how are you celebrating Chinese New Year's tonight? Are you splurging or saving?
About the Authors
- Elizabeth Bridge is a producer with CBC's Digital Archives project. She got her start in the kitchen baking brownies and making fudge but is still trying to get pastry right.
- Andrea Chiu
is an associate producer at CBC Radio Digital. Though she loves to eat, cook and discuss food,
don't ask her to bake. It never turns out well. She tweets as @TOfoodie on Twitter and organizes food and wine events in Toronto called FoodieMeet.
- Amber Hildebrandt
works for CBCNews.ca in Toronto. Growing up on a farm in Manitoba, she acquired an insatiable appetite, but it was during a stint in Japan that she developed her discerning tastebuds and foodie ways.
- Tara Kimura
is a multimedia producer for CBCNews.ca.
- Andree Lau
is a CBC web reporter in Calgary. Her journalism career includes seven years as a CBC-TV reporter. Her own blog called "are you gonna eat that?" chronicles her eating adventures (including sampling snake and camel hoof tendon).
- Jessica Wong
is a CBCNews.ca writer who loves to eat and cook, as well as discuss, read and watch programming about food, sometimes all at once.
- Kevin Yarr
, CBCNews.ca's writer in Prince Edward Island, wrote about food and beer for national and regional magazines before joining the CBC. He acquired a desire for new tastes on his first trip to Europe, and an appreciation of eating locally and in season when he finally settled down on P.E.I.
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Comments (2)
We saved. No restaurant dinner this time but we're crossing our fingers hoping tha the Ox will bring enough prosperity for the tradition to resume next year.
Lunar New Year celebrations in Canada are nowhere near as elaborate (or lengthy!) as in China.
One nice thing that I've noticed is that eating at home with family is encouraged, rather than eating out. Still, some of the ingredients for the traditional lucky dishes can get expensive.
We had two dinners over the weekend with different sides of the family. While both featured a few luxury items, we did scale a bit this year. No oysters, no large whole fish, no overflowing abundance of candy and oranges, etc.
It was more about getting together with family to share a meal and think of the year going forward, making for two reflective, enjoyable evenings.