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Tossing Yee Sang On Rénrì (人日)

Happy Birthday everyone. YES! It is your birthday! It is my birthday~it is everyone's birthday. At least for yesterday of course. Yeste...
Happy Birthday everyone. YES! It is your birthday! It is my birthday~it is everyone's birthday. At least for yesterday of course. Yesterday was the 7th day of Chinese New Year aka Rénrì (人日, the common man's birthday); It is the day when everyone has grown up one year older. My family celebrated this special day with special dinner. My wife and sister-in-law cooked a few delicious dishes and we had yee sang later after walloping our scrumptious dinner!

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Our special dinner for Rénrì (人日).

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Aww...steamed fish with shitake mushrooms. :D

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More mushrooms with broccoli.

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Crispy, oily lap cheong (Chinese Sausage) *drool*

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Butter prawn.

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Spicy Chicken.

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Salad with prawns.

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Creamy egg.

A special day like Rénrì must be commemorated with delicious food. I was actually surprised with the dinner that I had just now. It was not only mouth watering (visually pleasing), my taste buds were enthralled as well. SO GOOD (stolen from KFC). Altogether there were 6 different simple yet yummy dishes for our feeding frenzy. We were served succulent butter prawns, mushrooms with broccoli, spicy chicken, steamed fish with lots of shitake mushrooms, lap cheong (Chinese sausage) and a plate of vegetable mixed with egg (that I didn't eat because I am a carnivore). Haha :D

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Let's begin our Rénrì (人日) dinner.

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Happy Birthday everyone. :)

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Jasmine can't wait to start. :D

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Little Jordan eating his rice.

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My daddy enjoying his dinner.

It was a dinner that all of us savored because we don't really cook such yummy food every day. Butter prawns, lap cheong etc. Usually we will help ourselves to simpler, healthier meals. :p I love feasting on the lap cheong very much. So oily~I am already feeling fat. My whole family had a great time. It's like all of us are celebrating our birthday on the same day. We enjoyed sitting together with our 2 babies, slowly munching on our dinner. Great family time I would say.

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Our ready-made Yee Sang!

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Of course we must have these SALMON fillets!

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It's time to mix all of them together.

You might be wondering, "Where was the yee sang?" You see, we had our dinner at around 7p.m. to celebrate our birthday. Haha :D How about tossing of yee sang? We had it slightly later. My wife and I decided that we should toss our yee sang at 8:18p.m. (which is supposed to be auspicious) so that we can be more prosperous. This year, again we bought the ready-made Yee Sang from Jusco; and of course no yee sang is complete without the "yee" (fish) right? That was why I drove all the way to Jusco to buy freshly sliced salmon fillets for our Yee Sang tossing ceremony. *drooling*

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Begin by putting the main ingredients at the bottom.

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Then add in the "keropok".

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Throw in the other ingredients, sesame seeds, spices and herbs.

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And of course those beautifully cut salmon.

Preparation of the Yee Sang is always fun. Open the box and you will have different boxes of ingredients and  numerous sachets of herbs and maybe spices for your yee sang. We arranged it neatly and included each ingredient one at a time so that it will be more presentable when we were about to toss it. Last but not least we top up the ingredients with the fresh, succulent salmon that we had bought earlier. After that? TOSS THE YEE SANG~LAR! LAO~AR! Haha :D

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Let's toss of Yee Sang!

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Ready?

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LAU~YEE SANG~AR!

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Let's enjoy our auspicious Yee Sang!

Don't forget to utter words, phrases depicting prosperous meaning which will bring good luck, wealth and of course health. And of course, it is recommended that you toss your yee sang as high as you can. The higher your yee sang is tossed, the more prosperous you will be (or so they said). All of us enjoyed our yee sang very much...even though it might taste a bit odd...but we love it because it is a very meaningful dish. I hope you guys enjoyed yourselves as well. Happy Rénrì (人日) everyone.

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Happy Rénrì (人日) everyone.

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