Eat for luck

Spring Festival eve dinners are all about abundance and prosperity. Mike Peters reports.

The Year of the Rooster arrives this year on Jan 28, but when families gather for their annual eve of Chinese New Year feast, the star of the dinner table is more likely to be fish than fowl.

In Chinese, fish (yu) sounds like surplus. It's always good to have a surplus at year's end: If you have managed to save something at the end of the year, Chinese tradition says you can make more in the next year.