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Ministry of Education, Singapore
Here's another CNY "tidbit" - Tray of Luck!
The octagonal tray known as 'pa kuo ho' is the traditional eight-sided container used to contain a variety of sweetmeats, cakes and seeds serves to visitors. The centre contains dried-salted melon seeds.
The Chinese believe that the more melon seeds you eat, the more children you will have. The sweetmeats are a symbol of life while the cakes or 'gao' suggest a higher level of lifestyle. The eight sides of the tray also carry significance as eight or 'paat' in Cantonese sounds like 'prosperity' in the same dialect.
(Source: Infopedia)

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