The highlight of any Christmas day, apart from presents, is the delicious food. From roasted turkey to gingerbread cookies, there are tons of Christmas food to savour and enjoy. With so much variety, have you ever wondered what your favourite Christmas food says about you? Read on to find out!
Although some of our favourite Christmas food may have been passed down from European influences, Malaysians have put their own twist on them. We enjoy celebrating with festive feasts, after all we celebrate three of them every year, and Christmas is no exception. You can tell a lot about a Malaysian by their favourite foods. Similarly, your favourite Christmas dishes may reveal more about you than you think.
Ready to dig in and find out who you really are this holiday season? We have listed some of the most popular Christmas dishes, and what they mean if they are your favourite.
Here is what your favourite Christmas food says about you
Turkey
You value quality time with family and friends with a good Christmas roast. When it comes to roasting turkey, you think you have the best recipe to get it perfectly juicy and tender. In order to do so, you heckle the supermarket butcher annually on Christmas week to insist why turkey is better than chicken.
Lamb
You like variety in your life and in you food choices. You chose lamb because you already had Christmas turkey and are looking to prove you can grill lamb just as well.
Gingerbread Cookies
You’re probably a creative mind that has played with the cookies in your childhood like toys. Or you could be a sadistic person who likes to eat the gingerbread man limb by limb.
Candy Canes
You actually believe Santa exists, or you have an old-school charm that others appreciate. Candy canes are actually an aquired taste themselves and you have no problems embracing them.
Christmas chocolates
You probably give away so much Christmas chocolate because you can’t have it yourself. That makes you great with kids because you give them said chocolates and a have child-like sense of wonder at the simplest things.
Panettone
You love pastries and probably have a Christmas trip to Europe booked. Your annual Christmas trip to Paris or London takes you around the best bakeries in the world. And when it snows you have to share it Instagram so everyone knows you’re enjoying a white Christmas.
Champagne
You love to party and sip some bubbly whilst doing so. Christmas time is just another excuse to pop another bottle. In fact, you don’t really need much of a reason to drink some fine champagne. And because of how much you enjoy a good drink you probably bought a seperate fridge for wines and spirits that you still wonder today if it was ‘too much’.
Mince pies
You’re a stickler for traditions and probably enjoy reading classic Christmas tales. When it comes to food, you have a taste for English cuisine and adore the tradition of Christmas. You were probably feed this by grandma and grandpa during Christmas time as kid. Today, eating warm mince pies are a reminder of them every Christmas eve.
Fruit cakes
You must be a hopeless romantic who loves going to weddings because these cakes are served all the time in Malaysia. Fruit cakes are served during Christmas and weddings as a sign of prosperity and good fortune. Believing this, you think eating them will bring you closer to your future partner this Christmas. Hopefully, the next wedding fruit cake served will be at yours.
Egg nog
You like to have fun, but only responsibly. I mean, the kids are still around. Egg nog is the most cosy Christmas booze, and after managing family, kids, and in-laws all day you deserve one to end the night.
Hot chocolate
You would normally have a strong cup of Milo, but since Christmas is here you decided to be ‘fancier’ and finally use that hot chocolate mix you bought from London. If you’re lucky, the hot chocolate will taste like liquid indulgence, if you’re aren’t it’s going to taste like another cup of Milo.
Butter cookies
You loved going back to grandma’s house for the holidays and these tin cookies are a childhood treat. Just make sure to not open tins from the fridge, or you’re in for a frozen fishy surprise.
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Note : The information in this article is accurate as of the date of publication.
