New dishes at Crystal Jade Dining In BGC

Every Chinese New Year, my in-laws make it a point to have a family dinner in a Chinese restaurant. We'd usually have a sit-down lauriat dinner with more or less the same type of dishes. Since Chinese New Year falls on a different date every year, this year, that's going to happen on Feb. 19, 2015. I would like to clarify that although this is Crystal Jade, it's different from the Crystal Jade Shanghai Delight in Greenhills. Crystal Jade Dining In BGC is the fine dining version of Crystal Jade.

Yu Sheng or Prosperity Toss Salad

Anyhow, I was invited by Crystal Jade Dining In BGC to check out their new dishes sometime last month. It's very timely because my in-laws asked me to find a restaurant we can have dinner at on Chinese New Year. Crystal Jade Dining In BGC prepared something especially for the upcoming Chinese New Year, a salad called Yu Sheng a.k.a. Prosperity Toss Salad. The ingredients consist of a mix of shredded vegetables, fish, chopped nuts, and crunchy fried wonton strips. Crystal Jade Dining In's Yu Sheng uses two sauces -- plum sauce and a more citrusy vinaigrette-ish dressing.

Yu Sheng or Prosperity Toss Salad

Yu Sheng literally means "tossing up a good fortune". The red packets beside the salad ingredients actually contain pepper which you sprinkle over the entire dish. After the sprinkling, everyone gathers around with chopsticks in hand and all together they toss the salad upwards. The higher you toss upwards using your chopsticks, the better your fortune will be.

Yu Sheng or Prosperity Toss Salad

It's bound to get messy so I stretched out my hand and kept my distance. I had to go somewhere else after this luncheon so I couldn't get food on my clothes. This is the aftermath of the tossing. By the way, the salad is really really good. I found it light and refreshing. Read more »

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