We all had a great time tossing and then eating "rainbow yee sang" at Francis and Lindy Lai's Chinese New Year Open-house. This is a special dish made of shredded vegetables, carrots, cucumber, sengkuang (yam bean), pickled fruit slices, peanuts, crackers and chips, raw fish slices, and topped with tantalizing sauces. First, you toss the ingredients together, mixing them up with chopsticks while saying auspicious words. Then, you feast on this delicious 'yee-sang' with zest and confidence that the new year will bring good fortune and prosperity.
A "meeting-point" or "stomping ground" to interact and share experiences.
Sunday, February 28, 2010
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
Year of The Tiger - 2010
The Tiger is third in the order the Chinese 12 animal signs are arranged. In the beginning the animal signs were used to denote years but it later developed into a system for predicting one's fortune. Personality traits of a person born in the year of the Tiger are: Highly confident and will go all out to attain his/her goal, but can be rather self-centered. Some famous personalities born under the Tiger sin are Marco Polo, Karl Marx and Dr. Sun Yat-sen.
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