Food & its trad.

First of all,Happy Chinese New Year !



Last time,fishermen along the coast of guangzhou traditionally celebrated Renri by feasting on their catches on that day.Renri,is the seventh day of chinese new year.

Those catches are now known as Yee Sang,Yu Sheng which is a chao-zhou style raw fish salad.

Basically,family and friends gather around and toss this dish with chopsticks.As they toss,they chant auspicious wishes out loud at the same time to mark the start of a prosperous new year.

It is believed that the higher one toss,the greater the fortune! :D

Moving on to the japanese,



Ramen is the fourth most eaten food in japan & the japanese do take their ramen seriously.
A bowl of ramen holds a house-made soup, springy noodles, the chef's own tare (a mix of soy sauce, sugar and rice wine to flavor the soup) and exactly six traditional toppings. The wait at top Tokyo ramenyas can be up to three hours.

Did you know that slurping is expected at these eateries?Loud,sloppy slurping is not only tolerated,but encouraged?

It is a japanese tradition to slurp ramen & drink the soup out of the bowl.


Picture shown above is cha soba noodles.Cha as in green tea.

I had this while I was still in Sabah with my mum before I came here.
Apparently,that was the first and last time my mum's gonna have this hahaha.
Soba noodles are served cold with a raw quail egg.
So you just pour the quail egg into the cold broth and then pour it onto the noodles and slurp away.

Then you have the jews.



Soofganiot (doughnuts) and latkas or livivot (potato pancakes) are traditional fried and dairy food eaten during Hanukkah.

So why fried?
Fried food reminds them of the miracle of the oil that burned for eight days when the Maccabees purified and rededicated the holy Temple in Jerusalem.

Dairy on the other hand because it is often eaten on Hanukkah to remind us of the story of the Jewish heroine, Yehudit (Judith).

Yehudit saved her village which was under siege by the Syrians. The Syrians were trying to starve the Jews so they would surrender.Thus,in memory of this story, it has recently become a tradition to eat dairy food on Hanukkah.