Chinese feast: Year of the lobster?

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Dumplings, red packets of money, long noodles symbolizing long life, fireworks at midnight - all of these are traditional Chinese trappings of Asian Lunar New Year celebrations happening around the globe.

This year, however, many Chinese tables will feature a new, unlikely addition to their traditional meals: lobsters from the US state of Maine.
China's hunger for this storied slice of Americana has been growing over the past decade. Stephanie Nadeau, owner of The Lobster Company wholesaler in Kennebunkport, Maine, says in 2009 China bought virtually no lobster from Maine. Now the Chinese New Year is the busiest time of year - even busier than Christmas.

"With Christmas, it's only one day," Nadeau says. By contrast, she says she'll spend four weeks this year filling her Chinese New Year orders.
"It's my busiest year ever," she adds. "The Chinese are very fond of live seafood."
And how much does the New Year's bounty weigh in at? "Probably 400,000 pounds [181,000kg]," Nadeau says.
"In Hong Kong, they use - almost exclusively - small 1lb [0.45kg] lobsters," she says. "Maybe 40 miles away in Guangzhou, which used to be Canton, they prefer a two- or three-pound lobster.chin

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