In the past when Lunar New Year approached, the wealthy families prepared a sumptuous portion of festive food, such as rice crackers, rice cakes and fried dumplings. Fried dumplings and rice cake were cooked on different pans. Traditional rice cakes are six inches thick and 18 inches long, and are steamed over a fire burnt out of pine wood. The fried dumplings were mainly used for worship rituals. On New Year’s Eve, villagers showered with grapefruit leaves and put on new clothes and shoes. Just before New Year Day, people performed the custom of “Siu Nin Gan” (to play firecracker on the eve of New Year). Nga Tsin Wai villagers would burn firecrackers at their doors till the fifteenth day of the New Year. This custom was maintained until the 1960s. There was a “Ding Dong Stone” inside the Walled City. Before the war, villagers used to climb up onto the stone with a bamboo ladder and burnt firecrackers up there. The wrapping of the firecrackers on the ground was up to 1 foot thick. Kwong Man Lung on Pau Chung Street, To Kwa Wan, was the most famous firecracker shop. Before the war, a lot of marine people would go and pay homage at the Hau Wong Temple, which received even more sacrifices and incense than Wong Tai Sin Temple in those days.