In the last few days leading up to Chinese New Year, Dr Nupur Yi Shetty has been busy making Funchowza, a traditional Chinese fried snack, that she says is more like a Chinese shankarpali. She shares, "It is similar to how we make sweets during Diwali. 'Fun' means to 'turn around to the New Year' in Hubei, the language spoken by us Cantonese people. The whole family gets together to prepare this in my home in large quantities." 

It is one of the few traditional dishes that the Chinese community in Mumbai makes to celebrate the festival along with many other delicacies. Nupur is half-Chinese and half-Maharashtrian, and has further married her husband, who is a Shetty. Through all these changes, she has retained her Chinese origins and culture and carried it forward in her home, where they celebrate different kinds of festivals.