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February 5, 2011

LO YEE SANG - the friendly food fight

Had some friends over for dinner on the 2nd day of Chinese New Year and treated them to a Lo Yee Sang which is the typical CHINESE NEW YEAR appetiser musthave in Malaysia and Singapore. However, since we weren't sure if they would be used to raw fish, we used smoked salmon instead and they loved it. Some of them termed it a 'food fight' and to all appearances it may have looked like it. Everyone thought the chopsticks were a real novelty and ate pretty well with it, except for me and Jordie who are staunch spoon-diners.
They loved the novelty, the colour and the action. We so often take it for granted when we have it in the past so, we didn't realise it would be such a nice refreshing thing to introduce to them. Perhaps it was also the licence to play with food for once which made it more fun...
Samuel explained the significance of this dish but we did it also like a prophetic act. We wanted to speak prosperity, grace, favour and better things ahead into this act. So that made it all the more meaningful, hihi!

1 comment:

d'Lion said...

Happy Chinese New Year