Food bloggers Jennifer Lam and Amy Ta take us for a delicious journey across Australia to celebrate Lunar New Year.

Amy describes herself as a food writer, photographer and chronic daydreamer while Jennifer says she is a passionate twenty-something who is living her dream following the callings of her inner-foodie.

And these two foodies from Sydney reckon one of the best eating spots in the city is Cabramatta.

Together they run tours called "I ate my way through Cabramatta."

Jennifer explains one of her most favourite foods from Cabramatta that she likes to share with people on the tour are pandan and coconut waffles.

"They are really vivid green crepe style waffles and the green comes from Pandan which is the South East Asian version of vanilla" she says.

"It's so fragrant."

One of Amy's favourite dishes to share is pho.

"It's our national dish, it's a rich beef broth that's been boiled for 3 to 6 hours, and then they add the star anise and cinnamon and cloves and ginger" explains Amy.

"It really is very fragrant and refreshing."

In the lead up to Lunar New Year, Cabramatta comes alive explains Amy Ta.

"They close off the streets, there is a lot of Lion dancing, music, lots of food... the atmosphere becomes almost like a market feel, it is very vibrant and colourful" enthuses Amy.

Jennifer says she loves the abundance of fruit that is displayed, and the use of the colour red. Red symbolises luck and happiness for the New Year explains Jennifer.

Symbolism is a big part of Lunar New Year, with great care taken to decorate the home as well.

"When I was growing up we never really had fresh flowers in the house but the one time we had fresh flowers was during Chinese New Year" says Amy.

"It signifies beauty and ushers in good luck."

Jennifer and Amy caught up with various food bloggers across the county to see how they were celebrating Lunar New Year.

A mish mash of celebrations in Adelaide

Christina blogs at "The Hungry Australian", and says her heritage is from Hong Kong and Malaysia.

Her parents came out as high school students to Adelaide, and stayed on in Australia after school, meeting at University.

She grew up eating Australian food but also Malaysian and Chinese food as well.

We ate "BBQ, casseroles and fritz sandwiches as often as we ate stir-fries, noodles and curries" she explains.

When asked how her family celebrates Lunar New Year, Christina laughs.

"It's a bit like how we celebrate Christmas, it is a little bit of a mish mash."

"We usually have a dinner the night before, where we have things like noodles which celebrate longevity; we have Mandarin oranges, which are about gold and abundance, and we also have peanuts which are about prosperity" she says.

So who does all the cooking?

"My Dad is the noodle king in our family, when it is noodle time I stand back and let him work his magic" laughs Christina.

But being a foodie Christina also contributes to the meal.

"I like to make Jiaozi which is like a pork mince dumpling, you put a little bit of spring onion in there, a little bit of water chestnut, it is really simple and you serve that up with vinegar and chilli oil."

Christina and her family have a low key dinner at home in Adelaide, but also make time to visit China Town for Lion dancing.

Korean New Year in Brisbane

Food bloggers Jennifer and Amy also found out how Korean New Year was celebrated by catching up with Sue from Brisbane who blogs at "My Korean Kitchen".

Lunar New Year is the biggest family gathering in Korea, says Sue, which means there has to be a bit of planning in advance to get together.

"You have to buy a bus or train ticket to your home town six months ahead" she explains.

Sue says it wasn't unusual to travel from the southern end of Korea to the northern end of Korea to where her grandparents lived.

And as all of the family got together, there was a lot of food to prepare!

"The day before my Mum and Aunties were very busy making delicious food such as dumplings and rice cakes" says Sue.

"We would eat rice cake soup, which is the main traditional Korean food for Lunar New Year."

Sue explains that the soup symbolises a long and happy life, but there also is an old saying which says when you eat a rice cake, you get a year older.

"As a kid I wanted to grow up fast and so I had larger serves of rice cake soup."

"But as an adult I try to limit myself to only eating one serving otherwise my Uncle teases me that I'm getting older faster" Sue smiles.

After eating their way through Australia, Jennifer noted that while there are so many different ways people celebrate Lunar New Year in Australia there are also so many similarities between the cultures.

"And now I can say Happy New Year in five languages" laughs Amy.

Amy blogs at Tinytearoom and Jennifer can be found at Jenius