What other seafood should I avoid eating during Chinese holidays besides squid?

🙅‍♂️🙅‍♀️ Don’t eat these seafoods during Chinese New Year celebrations or you’ll be in a real 🛢️!

There are some foods that are a big 🆓 for the festive period, even though fish is generally a lucky food to eat at this time of year.

You won’t be 🧼 your plate if it has any of these on it:

• Fish heads and tails (🤯! Why would you eat those parts anyway?)
• Shellfish (the Chinese word sounds like ‘fail’)
• Shrimp (the Chinese word sounds like ‘laugh’, which is not a good side dish to your dinner)
• Catfish (the Chinese word sounds like having ‘leftovers’ which is not great for the New Year)
• Snapping Turtle (the Chinese word also sounds like ‘fail’)
• Snake 🪱 (the Chinese word sounds like ‘unlucky’)
• Frog 🧸 (the Chinese word sounds like ‘cry’)

💰🎰 People usually go for lucky foods like whole fish 🍤, dumplings and niangao (year cake) instead!

Also, some food shapes are considered auspicous too, like 🍊 oranges and 🍋 lemons, which look like gold ingots.

But these beliefs are not as strict nowadays, so if you’re in China and get invited to a New Year meal, just ask your host if there’s anything you should avoid eating. They’ll 👂 you out!