KOMPAS.com – Cap Go Meh is not only celebrated with lion dance attractions, red trinkets, or lanterns.
Similar to Chinese New Year, Cap Go Meh is also enlivened by culinary that has special meanings.
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The Chinese believe that some food brings good luck or good meaning when consumed during Cap Go Meh.
Chinese Peranakan Batik Researcher, Notty J. Mahdi, explained some typical food of Cap Go Meh who were believed to bring the following good meaning.
1. Lontong Cap Go Meh
ILUSTRASSI Lontong Cap Go Meh.Lontong Cap Go Meh is popular in Indonesia and several countries in Southeast Asia. As the name suggests, this food is only eaten when Cap Go Meh.
The Cap Go Meh component consists of rice cake, eggs, pumpkin lodeh vegetables, chili sauce, crackers, chicken, and gizzard liver.
The more complete the contents of the Lontong Cap Go Meh, the greater the fortune that will be received by the person who consumes it when Cap Go Meh.
Also read: Recipe for Lontong Cap Go Meh and Savory Soybean Powder
2. Ronde
Tangyuan Illustration.Ronde is a dish of glutinous rice flour. In China, this snack is known as Tangyuan.
Notty said, the round round and served in a round bowl too. This invites good things.
“The round that is presented during the Cap Go Meh, is intact. If it is presented with a round bowl, signifying together,” Notty said in the Talking Cap Go Meh 2025 Festival at FIB UI, Depok, Wednesday (12/2/2025).
Also Read: Why In China Eats Ronde When Cap Go Meh?
3. Onde-onde
Fried onde-onde illustration.Onde-onde also includes typical food of Cap Go Meh which is believed to have good meaning when consuming it.
This is because the round-onde-onde shape and golden brown color symbolized as sustenance.
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