Festive Food

In my earlier post on Nian Gao , the photos are more traditional nian gao. here you can see the Nian gao cakes have also been made in the form of fish, the traditional carp or koi and some are colourful.The reason being the Chinese phrase 年年有魚/餘; (nian nian you yu, or "every year there is fish/leftover") which could mean "be blessed every year" or "have profit every year", since "yu" is also the pronunciation for "profit".

This claypot of good delicious and expensive ingredients is known as Braised Treasures Combination. It cost about $388 for 12 people. The combination of some expensive and traditional food are Sliced abalone, prawns, scallops, stewed pork with taro, gluten, mashed fish ball, chicken, dried oyster, mushrooms, sea cucumber, black moss fatt choy, chinese cabbage and turnip.

Yusheng is a favourite with many Chinese during Chinese New Year and especially on the 7th day of the Chinese New Year. The 7th day of chinese new year is known as renri (the common man's birthday). This is the day when people get together to toss the colourful salad and make wishes for continued wealth and prosperity. This is more common in Malaysia and Singapore.

The above are display sets at Suntec City by Pearl River Palace Cantonese Restaurant and I got the permission to take photo of their display sets. Many would buy these for Reunion Dinner on Chinese New Year Eve. Reunion Dinner is the most important dinner of the year where every family member needed to be present at the dining table to have a meal together.