Cape Cod Chinese restaurants offer good lucky foods for Lunar New Year
CAPE COD TIMES While no excuse is needed — ever! — to enjoy Chinese food, the next two weeks are an especially good time to indulge as people around the world welcome the Lunar New Year with celebrations and traditionally lucky foods. The Year of the Ox begins Feb. 12 and continues through Feb. 26, culminating with the Lantern Festival. In years past, New Peking Palace in Falmouth has greeted the Lunar New Year with a buffet containing lucky foods, such as fish to increase prosperity, dumplings for wealth, sweet rice balls for family togetherness and happiness and long, unbroken noodles f...