@alesecherez: @Wen Cheng is the perfect place to celebrate Lunar New Year in Berlin today 🥢🧧🍜 🚨Wen Cheng also has a special CNY menu available in all stores 🧧 It includes 2 noodle dishes + 2 drinks + 1 side dish for 39,90€ and runs until March 3rd. 🥠They’re also giving out fortune cookies and a Wen Cheng 2026 calendar (while supplies last) 😍 🧧Chinese New Year (also called Lunar New Year or Spring Festival) doesn’t follow the Western calendar — it starts with the first new moon of the lunar cycle and marks a fresh beginning, not just a new date. It’s the most important holiday of the year across many Asian cultures.✨ 🥢Food is never random during Lunar New Year. You literally eat your wishes for the next 12 months: 🥟Dumplings = wealth (they look like ancient gold ingots) 🍜Long noodles = long life (never cut them!) 🐟Fish = abundance for the year ahead 🌾 Rice cakes = growth and career progress 🍊Tangerines = luck and success So celebrating at 📍Wen Cheng actually made perfect sense — hand-pulled noodles are stretched in one continuous strand, symbolizing longevity and continuity into the new year. Breaking them would symbolically break your luck… so yes, slurping is encouraged. People also give red envelopes with money (hongbao) to younger family members — always new bills and usually amounts with the number 8 because it sounds like prosperity. The number 4 is avoided because it sounds like the word for death. The whole holiday lasts 15 days and ends with the Lantern Festival, representing letting go of the past and welcoming light into the new year. So this wasn’t just dinner — it was basically eating good fortune. Happy Lunar New Year 🧧✨ May your year be long, lucky and full of noodles. #wencheng #chinesenewyear #berlinfoodspots
