While in America we may toast to the new year with Champagne and eat black-eyed peas for good luck, those who celebrate the Lunar New Year have a host of food traditions that symbolize wealth, health, ...

Stir-fried noodles with a mix of seafood ... are shaped like gold and silver Chinese ingots—a currency used in ancient China. This makes them a popular dish to have in a Chinese New Year ...

Kung Pao shrimp and sesame noodles. There is also a cocktail called Ancient Chinese Secret made with rum, cucumber vodka, pineapple, lime and sesame. Go: 601 Mattison Ave., Asbury Park ...