Festive snacks for friends and family

Spring Festival is a period for reunion among family and friends. Traditionally, this is also the time to relax, and catch up with long overdue visits.

The Chinese home is an open house in the first week of Spring Festival, welcoming all who enter the door with lots of food and plenty of drinks. Special snacks are always prepared, as well as candy, mandarin oranges, melon seeds and groundnuts - all to wash down conversation and fellowship.

Different regions in China will have different Lunar New Year tidbits.