New year food
Eaten to see in a new year, for luck or plenty.
Dabo koloVegetarianዳቦ ቆሎ
🇪🇹 Ethiopia and 2 moreSmall spiced fried dough pieces served as a snack in Ethiopia and Eritrea
Street food, Snacks
SobaVegan蕎麦
🇯🇵 Japan and 1 moreJapanese noodles made from buckwheat, served hot in broth or cold with dipping sauce
Noodle or pasta dish, Lunch, Dinner
Jiaozi餃子
🇨🇳 China and 1 moreChinese dumplings with meat or vegetable filling, served boiled, steamed or fried
Dumpling, Breakfast, Lunch
Shumai烧卖 / 燒賣
🇨🇳 China and 5 moreChinese dumplings filled with seasoned meat, often served as dim sum
Dumpling, Breakfast, Lunch
Coca
🇪🇸 Spain and 3 moreCatalan pastry with sweet or savoury toppings, eaten open or filled
Pie or savoury pastry
Turnip cake蘿蔔糕
🇨🇳 China and 4 moreSteamed and often pan-fried cake of daikon radish and rice flour, served as dim sum
Main dish, Breakfast, Lunch
Photo credits on this page
The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.
- Dabo kolo: Jongenelen, R.G.L., CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Jiaozi: Bioniclepluslotr, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Coca: Unknown author, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Soba: FotoosVanRobin, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- Shumai: Kent Wang, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- Turnip cake: N509FZ, CC BY-SA 4.0, source