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Cantonese salted fish (simplified Chinese: 广东咸鱼; traditional Chinese: 廣東鹹魚; pinyin: Guǎngdōngxiányú; Cantonese Yale: Gwong2 Dung1 Haam4 Yu2; also known as "salted fish, Chinese style") is a traditional Chinese food originating from Guangdong province. It is a fish preserved or cured with salt, and was a staple food in Guangdong.
Also referred to as facai yusheng (發財魚生; "prosperity raw fish salad") or xinnian yusheng (新年魚生; "Chinese New Year raw fish salad"). The recipe generally includes ingredients such as shredded white and green radish and carrots, ginger slices, onion slices, crushed peanuts, pomelo, pepper, essence of chicken, oil, salt, vinegar ...
[3]: 124 The Chinese character for fish is yu (traditional Chinese: 魚; simplified Chinese: 鱼; pinyin: yú). It is pronounced with a different tone in modern Chinese, 裕 (yù) means "abundance". Alternatively, 餘, meaning "over, more than", is a true homophone, so the common Chinese New Year greeting appears as 年年有魚 or 年年有餘.
Similarly, 年年有餘 (niánnián yǒu yú), a wish for surpluses and bountiful harvests every year, plays on the word yú that can also refer to 魚 (yú meaning fish), making it a catch phrase for fish-based Chinese new year dishes and for paintings or graphics of fish that are hung on walls or presented as gifts.
Salted fish, such as kippered herring or dried and salted cod, is fish cured with dry salt and thus preserved for later eating. Drying or salting , either with dry salt or with brine , was the only widely available method of preserving fish until the 19th century.
70 Party-Perfect New Year's Eve Appetizers PHOTO: JOSEPH DE LEO; FOOD STYLING: TAYLOR ANN SPENCER
Tai O (Chinese: 大澳; Jyutping: daai6 ou3; Cantonese Yale: Daaih’Ou) is a fishing town, partly located on an island of the same name, on the western side of Lantau Island in Hong Kong. The village name means large inlet , referring to outlet for the waterways (Tai O Creek and Tai O River) merges as it moves through Tai O.
Per the Justice Department, Sun and Hu used the money they received from Chinese officials to buy at least two properties — one in Manhasset, New York, that's now worth $4.1 million, and a ...