Yee Sang

(Picture courtesy of paradasia.com)

I have an obsession over yee sang. I crave to eat it whether it is New year or every other day. I think its the plum sauce. Well first of all, Yee Sang, as I have always thought it comes from China and Hong Kong. However, i found out one day that it is originated from Malaysia. Today, I am at a site http://paradasia.com , it says that it could be originated from Indonesia too. There are about 26-28 ingredients inside this dish. Recipe can be found at the site I mentioned. It has becomes a tradition that we have to 'lou sang' in new year. It is just a symbol for good wealth and prosperity to come. The word 'lou sang' in chinese means everything that we do will be successful. Hence, thus comes the action 'lou sang' when we take our chopstick and mixed all the ingredients together. While 'lou sang' that, we also say auspicious phrases such as 'good health' , happiness and other chinese proverbs that will speaks of prosperous thing that we would hope for in the new year.

(Picture courtesy of Paradasia.com)

This is how it looks when everything is all mixed up (picture above). Last time, we used to use 'sang yu' as one of the item, recently we have a choice to substitute it with salmon, according to people's taste. These days, ready pack yee sang are available in the supermarket.

So cousin, Johnson and I were out for a trip hunting for 'Yee Sang'. We found ours in Jusco. We bought a pack of yee sang and also a pack of sashimi yee sang ( from the sushi section). Planning to mix 2 separate pack together. The Jap version has kurage, salmon, seaweed and others.

The Japanese ingredient yee sang. We took out the ebiko, thought that salmon eggs would taste weird with the rest and also salty.

All geared up to Lou Sang :) We were planning to lou sang today which is the 7th day of the lunar new year which is also known as 'everybody's birthday'.

Happy faces after eating yee sang :)