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GEORGE TOWN: The traditional Chinese New Year specialty known as “yee sang” could be described in plain English as a “raw fish salad”, but the dish is evolving.
The act of tossing yee sang is a jovial ceremony where families, friends, and colleagues gather to toss the salad with chopsticks to usher in a new year filled with wealth, abundance, and prosperity.
Yee sang, is a hugely popular tradition associated with Lunar New Year, particularly in the yee sang-mad Lion City of Singapore.
Pineapple tarts, love-letter wafer biscuits, yee sang and endless questions about when you’re going to get married – for some people, the excitement of the Lunar New Year festivities have been ...