Kung hei fat choy. That's the greeting you will hear these days because the Chinese New Year is on Monday, February 8. Although the Philippines is not Chinese, there are many rich Chinese here so we have adapted that holiday since a few years ago. There are the so called dragon dance - men wearing dragon costumes. They dance mostly to commercial establishment in the hope of giving them money in the red envelope. The most common symbol is the tikoy, a certain cake made from glutinous rice that can be fried in strips and eaten as a snack. Some Chinese give money to their friends that are inside the red envelopes called Ang Pao.
Kung Hei Fat Choy, @Lara Moss and abundance to you as well. We are not Chinese but a friend gifted us with a box of tikoy so that was our breakfast for Monday which was the Chinese New Year. The tikoy is sliced in strips and dipped in (raw) scrambled egg to avoid sticking with each other in the frying pan. After frying for 5 to 10 minutes, we have the tikoy that is eaten by dipping in sugar. Aside from the tikoy, we had spaghetti for breakfast as a sign of long life (with the long strands of pasta). It would have been great if some Chinese friends of ours gave us that red envelope called ang pao, hahahaaah.