In China, people have a custom to stay up at the New Year's Eve
till midnight, and then the well−prepared food, Jiaozi in Chinese, or
the so−called dumpling, is served as soon as it is cooked in the
boiling water.
Jiaozi is perhaps the most especial food in people's life. First,
it is served at a particular time, right after the midnight. Second,
it is served barely with only some garlic−soy sauce. Third, usually a
coin is hidden in one of the dumplings. The person who find or bite
the coin will be the luckiest one in the New Year.
But that has been tested to work even more efficiently on
breaking away the poor teeth of an old man. Here is a story about a
grandpa. He was once lucky enough to bite the coin in one of the
dumplings. The moment he became the lucky winner, the...