For me, the highlight of Chinese New Year is yee sang, or raw fish salad. If I even step into a Chinese restaurant during the fifteen days of Chinese New Year, it’d be solely for this dish.

Otherwise, I would avoid Chinese restaurants (unless I’m invited to dinner) till CNY is over. If we decide to have a big feast out, it’d be anything but Chinese. I much prefer to toss yee sang at home, thanks.

Fish (the Chinese homonym for ‘excess’) is used in this once-a-year festive salad to signify more than enough prosperity, happiness, good health, good luck and everything good. So if you want to be successful in the coming year, you got to toss this and toss it high!

This is a colorful and fun dish that both young and old will enjoy tossing. Everyone grabs a pair of chopsticks and dives in. It can get a bit messy trying to toss it as high as possible but it’s a whole lot of fun.

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