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of CNY reunion dinners and lou hei...
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As a dish, it is quite mediocre, tasting of crunchy shredded vegetables drowned in thick sweet sauce. Fish, what fish?
Hardly surprising, seeing that it consists mainly of julienne'd radish and carrots, soaked in cold water and then dried (for crispiness). It comes together with a miserable portion of transparent-thin slices of fish, from sai tou to salmon (priced accordingly). The garnishing includes packets lots of deep fried fritters, pickled ginger and fruit slices, jellyfish, peanuts, 5-spice powder, pepper and sesame seeds, with bowls of sesame oil and plum sauce. As the waitress sprinkle the condiments over the dish, she mutters supposedly well wishes for the new year with each condiment. Then the diners dig in with their chopsticks with shouts of LOU HEI! which supposedly invoke the gods to bring them fortune and luck.
The $30 or $40 dollars you pay for this dish in restaurants which probably cost $6 (including overheads) equates to a more than 500% margin. The 4 chefs (2 from Lai Wah Restaurant, 1 each from Dragon Pheonix and Sin Leong) who concocted this dish way back in the 60's were absolute geniuses. Too bad for them copyrights were way after their time. They would have racking it now.
Not only is this mediocre plate of piece priced way, way, way above the usual mark-up'd margins, justified by some ridiculous notion that its consumption will bring good luck and fortune, it is, godammit, not even a traditional Chinese New Year dish.
Good luck, good fortune? Dream on. In the meantime, the restaurant owners are laughing all the way to the bank, after reaping all your good luck and good fortune. Suckers!
Hardly surprising, seeing that it consists mainly of julienne'd radish and carrots, soaked in cold water and then dried (for crispiness). It comes together with a miserable portion of transparent-thin slices of fish, from sai tou to salmon (priced accordingly). The garnishing includes packets lots of deep fried fritters, pickled ginger and fruit slices, jellyfish, peanuts, 5-spice powder, pepper and sesame seeds, with bowls of sesame oil and plum sauce. As the waitress sprinkle the condiments over the dish, she mutters supposedly well wishes for the new year with each condiment. Then the diners dig in with their chopsticks with shouts of LOU HEI! which supposedly invoke the gods to bring them fortune and luck.
The $30 or $40 dollars you pay for this dish in restaurants which probably cost $6 (including overheads) equates to a more than 500% margin. The 4 chefs (2 from Lai Wah Restaurant, 1 each from Dragon Pheonix and Sin Leong) who concocted this dish way back in the 60's were absolute geniuses. Too bad for them copyrights were way after their time. They would have racking it now.
Not only is this mediocre plate of piece priced way, way, way above the usual mark-up'd margins, justified by some ridiculous notion that its consumption will bring good luck and fortune, it is, godammit, not even a traditional Chinese New Year dish.
Good luck, good fortune? Dream on. In the meantime, the restaurant owners are laughing all the way to the bank, after reaping all your good luck and good fortune. Suckers!
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I realise in this thread that people who diss lou hei have never eaten the real thing before. If you want good lou hei than do it yourself and if u have a maid get her to do the work,,and lou hei is a family/group affair not an individual thing. No point go restaurant and eat lou hei and comprian its not good and its expensive...if the dish was such a rip off in the beginning, the chefs who concocted it would be bashed and the dish would not have taken off.
Dont know the real thing dont diss the dish,,and real lou hei is seldom eaten in restaurants unless the family is rich to pay for extra fish and the restaurant wont offend their regular big spending customers,..go to coffee shops etc eat lou hei and complain,,,if not good dont eat it,,diss the dish for what,,anyway spore is dominated by hokkeins,,what the shit hokkeins know about lou hei???
Dont know the real thing dont diss the dish,,and real lou hei is seldom eaten in restaurants unless the family is rich to pay for extra fish and the restaurant wont offend their regular big spending customers,..go to coffee shops etc eat lou hei and complain,,,if not good dont eat it,,diss the dish for what,,anyway spore is dominated by hokkeins,,what the shit hokkeins know about lou hei???
I think the other people had already snapped up the fish slices with their chopsticks, leaving behind only vegetables for you.
Have to agree with you it is best done at home if one really like it. We used to make it at home because all the family members like it. I helped with the grating of the radish and carrots, icing them and spin it dry in a bag in the washing machine, I know what ingredients go into it and even the verses the waitress recites when mixing in the garnish. So I probably do know something about the dish.
Not really dissing the dish per se but the fact most people pay through their nose for something so mediocre for its purported 'lou hei' properties.
Wisingh you a Happy and Prosperous New Year.
All these PAP people lou hei also no use, their this year I foresee going to have more problems than last year.
And in 2016, many of them gonna get booted out, lou hei x1,000,000 also cannot save them.
All these useless Chinese traditions are only for the gullible and superstitious fools.
And in 2016, many of them gonna get booted out, lou hei x1,000,000 also cannot save them.
All these useless Chinese traditions are only for the gullible and superstitious fools.
i cant stop agrees with you 1000 0000 times.
lou hei is the most stupid invention of the century
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