Happy Chinese New Year

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony. - Mahatma Gandhi

Today is the second day of Chinese New Year base on the lunar calender. This is one of the most celebrated new year festival worldwide. Happy Chinese New Year 华人新年快乐

Being a Chinese decedent growing up in Malaysia, the celebration is great.
One of the signature dishes for this celebration is called 'Lou Sang' 捞生，it could be translated to Lucky Salad or Uplifting Salad, personally I like to call it Uplifting Salad.

This dish is originated from Malaysian, the dish combine thirteen different vegetables and a few distinctive spices to make it really tasty, the star of the dish is the raw fish. Every bits of the ingredients carry a blessing meaning, the fun part of the dish is not just eating it, before you could do that pour the spices and sauce on the top, then the people around the table have pick up their chopsticks and mix the dish upwardly to the sky, meaning stepping up and improving, while doing that movement, say out loud positive, uplifting wishes to welcome and bless the new year.

After the excitement of mixing of the dish and well wishes, everyone enjoy the dish with high spirit! It's such a great way to boost energy and to brighten up for a fresh year. Welcome to the year of HORSE!

Few years ago, we could only get this dish in Malaysia, but thanks to the trend of migration, this dish is quite famous now and you could even get it in Sydney.