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How to Buy a Live Fish in Oakland Chinatown for Chinese New Year

How to get the freshest fish? Buy it live in Oakland Chinatown. Anna Mindess gets a lesson in fresh fish buying and cooking for Chinese New Year from Lisa Li. Continue reading

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You Don’t Have to be Chinese…to Eat Lucky Food for Lunar New Year

Chinese New Year celebrations include many symbolic foods, whose names are homonyms for luck, wealth and many other terms of good fortune. Continue reading

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