It is auspicious to indulge in certain types of food during the Lunar New Year. Lo hei yusheng is an example.
In Cantonese, lo means to mix/toss. Hei means up. Yu or fish sounds like the Chinese word for abundance. Sheng is shredded vegetables; it can also mean raw. Loosely translated, it is a salad of raw fish with shredded vegetables.
Polaris Fine Foods’ (tel. 0908-8123462; @polarisfinefoods on Instagram) lo hei is perhaps one of the most luxurious, made only with the finest ingredients, like sashimi of chilled bluefin tuna belly (otoro and chutoro) flown in from Japan and salmon from Norway. Ikura, unagi, wakame, pomelo, crunchy vegetables and tempura flakes for texture comp…
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