(17) CHINESE RECIPES FOR THE NEW YEAR: ~ From: &quot;Closet Cooking.Com&quot; ~ Recipes Courtesy Of: &quot;KEVIN LYNCH&quot;. ***  Chinese cuisine is extremely varied with many tasty dishes with a lot of my favourites coming from the Sichuan province for their use of spicy hot chili peppers and mouth numbing Sichuan peppercorns! For the New Year some foods are considered lucky including long noodles, spring rolls, lettuce, oranges, whole fish, whole chickens, sticky rice cakes, etc.