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Yee Sang
New Year's Traditions
On the seventh day of the first lunar month, also known as "Ren-Ri" (Man's Birthday), a popular dish "Yu Sheng"- a prosperity tossed salad platter is usually eaten. Yu Sheng is loaded with symbolic meaning; the raw ingredients and fish signify the renewal of life and prosperity. The interesting part of eating Yu Sheng is the mixing the ingredients together and to ensure good luck for the coming year, everyone will calls out "Lo Hei!" which means "to mix it up" (sounds like "to prosper more and more" in Cantonese) and many other good words -while they use their chopsticks to toss the ingredients as high in the air as they can.
Ingredients
100g white radish, shredded
100g carrot, shredded
100g mango, shredded
50g spring onions, shredded
1 red chilli, shredded
75g pickled papaya, shredded
6 pickled leeks, shredded
100g pomelo wedges, peeled and separate the sacs
4 kaffir lime leaves, finely shredded
20g young ginger, finely shredded
1 pair yao char kwai, sliced thinly and deep-fried until crispy
100g sweet potato, finely shredded
50g toasted sesame seeds
70g roasted peanuts, pounded
Sauce ingredients (cook and cool):
300g plum sauce
1 tbsp apricot jam
3 tbsp lime juice
3 tbsp honey
1 tbsp sesame paste
1 tsp sesame oil
1/2 tsp salt or to taste
10g Chinese five spice powder, put into a red packet
Method
- Deep-fry shredded sweet potatoes in hot oil until crispy. Drain. Add sliced yao char kwai pieces to the hot oil. Deep-fry until lightly golden and crispy. Remove from oil and drain well on crushed kitchen paper.
- Combine the sauce ingredients in a small saucepan. Bring to a low simmering boil. Leave aside to cool completely before use.
- Arrange the shredded ingredients attractively on a big, round serving platter.
- To serve, pour the sauce over the yee sang and sprinkle the with five-spice powder.
- Add a sprinkling of sesame seeds and roasted peanuts.
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