Chinese New Year February 6th 2008
Chinatown in Singapore is preparing for Chinese New Year. The Christmas decorations have been taken down and the Chinese Lanterns have been put up. Can you see themChinese new Year is on February 6th this year and is a National Holiday in Singapore.
Special food is also served on Chinese New Year. Here is some “la ya” or “salted wax duck” behind me. Some other New Years food are dumplings which are served just past midnight on the first day of the New Year and also on the 5th day of the new year, herbal chichen, mandarin oranges, “steamboat” or hot pot, fish, large meatballs and “yu sheng” which is raw fish with honey, peanuts, cucumber, carrots, golden crackers and pomelo (a fruit). All of these ingregients in “yu sheng” have meaning, and hopeful I will learn them all by the time Chinese New Year comes.
January 31, 2008 at 5:11 am
[...] But, how many of us out there really know the significance of the most well-known dish eaten during Chinese New Year, “Yu Sheng”? And that’s the question that blogger, Johanna or thruhereyes, posed on her blog post, http://thruhereyes.wordpress.com/2008/01/18/chinese-new-year-february-6th-2008/. [...]
January 31, 2008 at 5:41 am
Hi there, I’m a Children’s Librarian from NLB, Singapore and I found some interesting and useful information about the meanings of each ingredient used in “yu sheng”.
I hope you’ll find it as enlightening as I did.
Happy Chinese New Year to you!
February 1, 2008 at 4:45 am
[...] But, how many of us out there really know the significance of the most well-known dish eaten during Chinese New Year, “Yu Sheng”? And that’s the question which blogger, Johanna or thruhereyes, posed on her blog post, http://thruhereyes.wordpress.com/2008/01/18/ chinese-new-year-february-6th-2008/. [...]