Yee Sang

I have been invited out with friends as part of the continuing Chinese New Year celebrations. We are on the 10th day, which I think means it's more feasting... so we are all meeting for lunch at 1 pm.

We indulge in yee seng, which is raw salmon mixed with shredded vegetables, oil, plum sauce and topped crispy snacks. It's considered to be a symbol of abundance and prosperity and once all the ingredients are mixed together, everyone gets their chopsticks and tosses it all up in the air, wishing for their own prosperity and abundance-ness.

And making a mess everywhere, of course. 

After that, we have a steam boat / hotpot with a variety of fish, chicken, pork etc, which is really tasty and the whole lunch is really good fun, even if I can’t understand all that they are saying. But that’s my fault, as I have been pretty lazy in learning my Mandarin: it’s amazing how they can flit from Mandarin, Hokkien, English and Malay la!