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Two Shanghai chefs talk about their favorite Chinese New Year dish and tell you how to do it up yourself

Eat well on Chinese New Year

Forget gathering the family round the dinner table, this year Chinese New Year banquets are going upscale

Here's our handy guide to the best fireworks, and the most dangerous, that you'll need to make the New Year festivities go off with a bang

In other Shanghai news: What’s in store for the Year of the Tiger and the city's unlikely visitors

Although the Chinese New Year is still weeks away, the mass passenger movement is on already as people return to their hometowns for the holidays