Denpasar –
Yu Sheng is a typical Chinese food that looks like a salad and is served for generations during Chinese New Year. This food is also a special menu for China New Year at Naga Eight Restaurant, Jalan Lake Tamblingan, Sanur, Denpasar, Bali.
Yu means fish and sheng means being lifted up. This dish is commonly known as a salad from China. This food is served from a combination of raw fish (usually salmon), fresh vegetables (grapefruit, carrots, radishes, coriander leaves, cucumber, and toge), as well as a complement that contains spices, fried onions, oil, beans, sesame seeds, and sauce .
At the Naga Eight restaurant, Yu Sheng’s menu was used as an appetizer that symbolizes the welcoming of the new year. The selected materials must be fresh and premium, such as the use of salmon that have a better texture.
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“We want to introduce this tradition to the wider community by entering the Yu Sheng menu into the package. Visitors finally try even though they do not celebrate (Chinese New Year) and know how to eat the presentation,” explained Marketing Communication Nanda Putra, Wednesday (1/29/2025).
Yu Sheng has a fresh, sour, sweet and fresh taste that has been adapted to the tongue of local people.
The meaning of every ingredient and seasoning
Yu Sheng himself has the meaning of prosperity and happiness. In every ingredient and seasoning also has its own meaning according to the Chinese tradition, including:
• Salmon: luck throughout the year.
• Oil: increase luck 10,000 times.
• Crackers: like gold and silver.
• grapefruit: get luck, create opportunities.
• Pepper and cinnamon: attract wealth.
• Carrots: bring a more harmonious household.
• Green turnips: youthful.
• White radish: in line and always compact with coworkers.
• Sesame seeds: a business that is more rapidly developing.
How to eat yu sheng
 How to eat Yu Sheng, at the Naga Eight restaurant, Sanur, Denpasar, Wednesday (1/29/2025). (Fabiola Dianira) |
The tradition of eating Yu Sheng is usually done in a group with family and loved ones on Chinese New Year. How to eat is somewhat unique. First, pour every conductor or complement while saying the prayers and hopes of the new year one by one.
Then mixed together using chopsticks while high school as much as 7 times by shouting “lo hi!”. The stirring process must be done high, because the higher the mortar, the greater the hope for luck.
“If according to trust the higher in Toss, the luck is getting higher too. So sometimes it usually reaches the ceiling (ceiling),” said Head Chef Naga Eight, Andrianus Indarto.
Then share the mixed Yu Sheng according to the number of people who also eat together.
With the tradition of Yu Sheng, Chinese New Year celebrations feel warm with the togetherness and hopes for good things next year.
(NOR/HSA)
