Lucky foods for New Year celebrations
Welcome a new year or brighten the festive season with traditions from around the world. Compare wishes and timing, then choose one to try.
Eat New Yearโs Eve Soba for Health and Long-Life Luck / ๐ฏ๐ต Japan
Eat a bowl of long soba noodles on December 31 and welcome health and a long, happy life. Japanโs New Yearโs Eve tradition puts a hopeful meaning into a wonderfully comforting meal.
- Wish
- Good health, long life and New Year fortune
Eat Hoppinโ John for New Year Prosperity / ๐บ๐ธ USA
Eat Hoppinโ John on New Yearโs Day to welcome prosperity. Black-eyed peas stand for coins, greens for dollar bills: the American South puts its wish for a plentiful year straight onto the plate.
- Wish
- Prosperity and a plentiful year
Eat Twelve New Year Grapes to Welcome Good Luck / ๐ช๐ธ Spain
Eat twelve grapes with the twelve midnight chimes on New Yearโs Eve to welcome good luck. Each grape carries a wish for one prosperous month of the year ahead.
- Wish
- Good fortune and prosperity for the new year
Find the Roscรณn Figure to Welcome New-Year Good Fortune / ๐ช๐ธ Spain
Share a roscรณn de Reyes on 6 January and crown the person whose slice holds the little figure. This Spanish tradition brings good fortune and a playful royal welcome to a familyโs first celebrations of the year.
- Wish
- Good fortune for the new year and family celebration