The Lunar Year Transition
Lunar New Year 2025 marks the transition from the Year of the Dragon to the Year of the Wood Snake, symbolizing introspection, transformation, and growth. This globally celebrated event brings together more than a billion people worldwide. Beginning on Wednesday, January 29, and culminating with the Lantern Festival on February 12, it’s a time to embrace renewal, tradition, and sustainable Lunar New Year celebrations.
A Celebration with Family and Friends – Considered the most important meal of the year, the reunion dinner is a central part of the Lunar New Year celebration to share with family and friends.
A Feast for the Lunar New Year
Prepare for the most important meal of the year— the reunion dinner. It’s a central part of the Lunar New Year celebration, meant to be shared with family and friends. With Pacific Merchants, set the stage for an unforgettable, sustainable Lunar New Year celebration with our eco-friendly Acaciaware dishes. Featuring:
Acacia Wood Oval Serving Platter, 16″ x 10″ x 1.5″
Acaciaware 13″ Square Tray (Charger)
Artisan Crafted Acaciaware for Lucky Lunar New Year Foods
Traditional foods symbolize health, wealth and happiness during the celebration. Serve these lucky foods in our beautiful Acaciaware dishes and embrace the balance, order and harmony symbolic of Lunar Year celebrations.
- Dumplings: Wealth and Prosperity
- Noodles: A Long Life and Happiness
- Spring Rolls: Wealth and prosperity
- Fish: Abundance and Prosperity
- Shrimp: Happiness
- Chicken: Luck and Wholeness
- Vegetables: Springtime and Wealth
- Oranges, Clemetines, Grapefruit: Luck and Wealth
- Sweet Rice Balls: Unity
- Rice Flour Cake: Health, Wealth, and Happiness
From Dumplings, Spring Rolls, Fish, Chicken, and Vegetables, to Oranges, Sweet Rice Balls, and Rice Flour Cake, they religiously represent Wealth, Long Life, Abundance, Luck, Springtime, and more.
ENTERTAINING WITH HARMONY AND BALANCE: CIRCLES AND SQUARES
Circles and Squares represent balance, order and harmony, symbolizing the universe, the earth, and the relationship between the two.
Circles symbolize unity, perfection, and completeness. They suggest motion, like the cycles of nature. Circles are infinite, representing the spiritual.
Squares represent the earth, within its five elements of Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal and Water. Squares represent stability, balance, and order, symbolizing the four cardinal directions of north, south, east and west, and the four seasons of spring, summer, autumn, and winter.
A CIRCLE WITHIN A SQUARE
Symbolizing the unity of heaven and earth, or yin and yang, connecting the divine to our place on earth.
A SQUARE WITHIN A CIRCLE
Representing “heaven on earth”, the union of the spiritual circle with the earthly square, our Acaciaware dishes add a touch of harmony to your celebrations.
YING & YANG: Balance and transformation with Acaciaware
Our hand-carved Acaciaware serving and entertaining pieces symbolize balance and transformation. They are perfect for large and small gatherings, both indoors and outdoors. Serve all your Lunar New Year dishes eco-friendly and stylish with Acaciaware.
Soy Ginger Dipping Sauce Recipe
Complete the symbolic Lunar Year foods with this bold dipping sauce, perfect with dumplings, pot stickers, rice, vegetables, and fish. Adjust the proportions freely to your taste and the size of your gathering.
Mix ingredients together, freely adjusting proportions to taste, the dish you are serving and size of your gathering. Serve with dumplings, pot stickers, rive, vegetables and fish.
- 1 teaspoon finely grated fresh ginger pinch of dried chili flakes (to taste)
- 2 tablespoons Mirin rice vinegar
- 1/2 cup organic Tamari soy sauce
- 1 teaspoon toasted sesame oil
- 3-4 scallions trimmed and diagonally sliced
Join Pacific Merchants in embracing a new Lunar Year with sustainable celebrations. Our Acaciaware dishes hand-carved from sustainable, eco-friendly Acacia wood, are perfect for bringing in the Lunar New Year in style.
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