8 Lucky Foods for Chinese New Year 2019 | Get Your Favourite Dishes Delivered with honestbee

Gong Xi Fa Cai!

The Chinese New Year is all about family, reunions, and FOOD. Lots and lots of food. However, if you don't like cooking then you might order authentic Chinese dishes online.

With traffic getting worse and shopping becoming more hectic, wouldn’t it be great if you could enjoy your favourite Chinese food? No more hustling with other diners, or even long lines.

With that said, here's a super easy, fast and convenient way for you to stock up on all your Chinese New Year goodies without having to step out from the comfort of your home! It’s pretty simple really, all you need is honestbee.

Rejoice as honestbee, Asia's leading on-demand marketplace, recently launched a category "Chinese Flavours (Food) / Chinese New Year (Grocery)" in time for Chinese New Year. Yay!

To bring you more fortune this 2019, honestbee has gathered all the best merchants in and around Chinatown, to bring you its lucky dishes, and more!

Here are some of the auspicious foods which are believed to bring us wealth, prosperity, longevity, happiness, and good luck in the Year of the Pig.

1. Dumplings

Legend has it the more dumplings you eat during the new year celebration, the more money you can make in the new year. And while wealth is something everyone would want to attain, dumplings from Decs, Wai Ying, Shi Lin and Bai Niang are available on the app to bring us closer to our fortune this year.

2. Steamed fish

Photo credit: Omnivore's Cookbook

To hoping this year will start and end in success, restaurants like Lugang Cafe, Tuan Tuan and Wang Fu brings you steamed fish, a dish believed to bring in prosperity.

3. Spring Rolls

Photo credit: Rasa Malaysia

Another belief is the golden cylindrical shape of spring rolls depict gold bars, equivalent to bringing in a lot of wealth, and while this is believed to be a myth, there’s no harm in trying and filling your tummies with those from Bain Nian Tang Bao.

4. Noodles

Long noodles= Long life

Noodles are well-known to symbolize longevity, in fact any birthday celebration isn’t complete without it, so go ahead and order your favourite noodle dishes from Lido Cocina Tsin, Ling Nam and Ersao too. As much as possible, do not cut the noodles while eating them.

5. Lucky fruits

To satisfy your sweet cravings, there are certain fruits like kiat kiat and pomelo which attract fullness and wealth, and you may readily purchase them in bulk from S&R, Farmers Market, Robinsons Supermarket, Isetann and Ultramega Supermarket. Oranges, tangerines, and pineapples are the luckiest fruits this Year of the Pig.

6. Tikoy or glutinous rice cake

Glutinous rice cake is believed to bring you a higher income or bring you job promotion. If you’ve been eyeing on that for awhile, you may get yours from Holland.

7. Chocolate golden coins

These chocolate coins are wrapped in gold foil to resemble a real coin, that symbolize household wealth. One of the Chinese New Year traditions is that parents fill up a candy tray with lucky food and snacks for their kids, which brings a sweet life for the whole family in the new year.

8. Chinese delicacies like tangyuan, hopia, etc.

And lastly, make celebrations more sweet and bring togetherness to the family by wrapping up the celebration with Eng Bee Tin, bringing you your favourable tangyuan, hopia, tikoy and more Chinese delicacies! It also symbolizes fullness, family unity and togetherness.

honestbee FOOD currently delivers delicious Chinese dishes from the following restaurants in Manila:

Sincerity Cafe & Restaurant
Wu's Kitchen
Tai Koo HK Roast
Lugang
Tuan Tuan
Mr. Choi Kitchen
Chatime
Coco
David's Tea House
Mongkok
Little Beijing
Hongkong Noodles
TenRen's Tea
Original savory chicken since 1950's
Taiwan Healthy Drinks
The President grand palace restaurant
chuan kee
cafe mezzanine
the great buddha cafe
Mr. Ube rice and noodle house
Mongolian Quick Box
Golden Tripod Dumplings
Mutsarap
Chairman Wang's
Kanzhu
A Bite of Hunan
Hainanese Delights
Tapi Milk Tea House
Taifull Restaurant
High Tea
Shi Lin
8 Treasures Kitchen
Shui Shan
Ersao
Lin's Kitchen
Eat Fresh Food
Maomi's Chinese Restaurant
Serenitea
Authentic Chinese Cuisine
What A Tea
Joe Kuan
Yi Fang
Taiwan Chef White Bento
Bai Nian Tang Bao
The Royal Kitchen
Templo
Chuan Xiang Restaurant
Ling Nam
Noodles Everyday
HOT STAR
Mai Wei Fang
Char Dining
Mr. Panda
Wai Ying Dimsum
DECS
Lido Cocina Tsina
Yin Yang
Yao's Kitchen
Classic Savory
The Original Binondo Chicken
Gong Cha
Tien Ma's
the original savory since 1950's
Chicken Binondo
Wang Jia Tea House
Moonleaf
Trueblends
Wangfu

Aside from the lucky dishes, they also carry lucky charms and feng shui items from New Victory Trading. Now there’s no need to go out of your way to purchase your lucky pig figurines, chinese lanterns and angpao as honestbee can deliver them all to your doorstep!

Look for all these offerings under the Chinese New Year tab to bring you luck this Year of the Pig!

Planning to stock up on your Chinese New Year goodies? Simply download the honestbee app on for free on the Apple App Store or Google Play Store, or log in to their website (https://www.honestbee.ph/) to start ordering away!