

High stakes! There’s a Vegas buffet’s worth of auspicious foods to consume: the Chinese word for “leek” sounds a lot like the word for “calculating,” so the more leeks you eat, the more money you’ll have to count the word for “prawn” is har, so they’ll bring you plenty of laughs-as in, like, har-har-har!-in the months ahead.

The longer you stay up past midnight on New Year’s Eve, for instance, the longer your parents will stay alive.

Chinese New Year, which begins this Friday, is sort of like the Superstition Super Bowl.
