<P> Indian people cook a variety of foods, including Biryani with chicken or lamb / mutton, chicken and mutton curry, followed by cake or sweets like Kheer . Long established Christian communities such as Goan Catholics have pork dishes and beef dishes as part of their main course of their Christmas dinner . These include Pork Vindaloo and Sorpatel . For dessert a dish called Bebinca is popular . </P> <P> Japanese Christmas cake, a white sponge cake covered with cream and decorated with strawberries, is often consumed and Stollen cake, either imported or made locally, is widely available . A successful advertising campaign in the 1970s made eating at KFC around Christmas a national custom . Its chicken meals are so popular during the season that stores take reservations months in advance . </P> <P> Lebanese Christians celebrate Christmas dinners . The feast, usually on both the night of the 24th and lunch of the 25th, is a big one . Some have the leftovers from the dinner prior at the lunch the next day . Traditional offering for Christmas is sugar coated almonds . Family gets together at both meals . Roast turkey is the most common choice of meal . Roasted duck, Lebanese salad (Tabouleh) and pastries such as Honey cake and "Buche De Noël" are also common . Beirut celebrates Christmas by conducting glamorous and big Christmas parties . Western style exhibitions of poinsettias, Community Christmas trees and Christmas lights are very popular . </P> <P> Christmas dinner in the Philippines is called Noche Buena following Hispanic custom, and is held towards midnight of December 24 . This usually comes after the entire family has attended the late evening Mass called the Misa de Gallo ("Mass of the Rooster"). The centrepiece of the Noche Buena is often the hamón which is usually a cured leg of pork . This is usually served with queso de bola, literally a ball of edam cheese covered in a red wax . Other ubiquitous dishes are pasta and for dessert, fruit salad . The dinner would usually be accompanied with tsokolate or hot cocoa, which is made with pure, locally grown cacao beans . Some families prefer tsokolate prepared from tablea or tablets of pressed cocoa powder that is either pure or slightly sweetened . Most of the food served on Noche Buena are fresh and usually prepared during the day of Christmas Eve . </P>

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