It is a traditional Chinese culture that on the night of Lunar New Year's Eve, Chinese families come together for a celebration dinner. This custom is also called "surrounding the hearth," from the custom in earlier times of eating dinner around the family hearth. Crispy Roast Duck Sweet Banana Balls By the end of year 2014, to celebrate the New Year’s coming, all of our Omeida Chinese Academy students and teachers had a big class dinner.