For Chinese New Year, there is a rather recently adopted tradition of eating a mixed raw fish salad, known as the Prosperity Toss, or Yeesang (read more about it here.) It is served as an appetizer, and it is quite detailed with every ingredient having a reason or symbol, like prosperity or happiness, depending…
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How to: Banana Flower
The banana flower, also known as the banana blossom or, directly translated from Malay, the heart of the banana (jantung pisang), tastes slightly like artichokes. It’s quite exotic, in my opinion, and I love it raw as a salad (kerabu). I have cooked it once and made it into a Fish Laksa broth, once,…

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