Shanghai Daily news

More local residents who are fed up with eating the Lunar New Year's Eve dinner at home or at a local restaurant travel outside the city to enjoy the family reunion dinner.
Shanghai classics Travel Service designed special three-day package tours to Hengdian, Zhejiang Province, which covers sightseeing to one of the country's most magnificent TV and movie shooting bases in Hengdian, as well as Lunar New Year's Eve dinner - which is known as nianyefan in Chinese.
"Each year on the Lunar New Year's Eve, local restaurants are crowded with families having nianyefan, and the dishes are always the same," said a salesman with the company. "So we decided to provide something extraordinary."
Instead of the 10 cold dishes, 10 heated dishes, folk desserts and fruits, travelers to Hengdian will sit beside a fire and dine on wild fowl and unpolluted wild herbs. They will drink wines brewed by local farmers, and enjoy folk singing and dancing performances unique to the water village, he said.
So far, about 100 people have signed up for the tour, which costs about 600 yuan (US$72) per person.
Most of the clients are families and lovers, the salesman said, adding that among them there are seven foreigners.
Similarly, Shanghai Haixin Travel Company is offering a chance to enjoy nianyefan in Ningbo, Zhejiang.
"It will be a feast full of fresh seafood," said a saleswoman with the agency.