Tighter COVID-19 restrictions, including a ban on dining in restaurants after 6 pm, mean many Hong Kong families are eating their reunion dinner on Lunar New Year’s eve at home this year.

The traditional dish known as “poon choi,” or “basin food,” is a large dish filled with lotus root, radish, taro and more expensive delicacies such as prawns, abalones and meat layered on top. Each food is symbolic and enjoying the dish with family is a way of sharing hope for a good year.