What do you think of when you talk of festive food? I suppose it's not just about cakes. There seems to be cakes for different occasions - birthdays, mother days, weddings, anniversaries that it is easy to forget that there are other different types of food for festive occasions; that's for the Chinese at least. For South East Asian Chinese, there is always the yee sang to begin the new year with. The dish which Is a symbol of abundance, prosperity and vigor is peculiar especially to Chinese in Malaysia and Singapore since the practice of tossing the slices of raw fish which has been mixed with shredded vegetables and a variety of sauces and condiments before eating them is not seen in China or Hong Kong. While versions of the dish are said to be available in China, the present form popular among the Chinese here is said have its origin in Malaysia and Singapore. The dish reportedly had been refined from a Cantonese dish and sold during Chinese New Year since the 40s in Seremban, a town in Malaysia; and in 1964, when Singapore was still part of Malaysia, some chefs there supposedly created the dish. There are many other types of festive food like mi ku , ang ku and so on; and now, I'm really curious of their origins...
Some Chinese festive food....
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