First of all let me greet you with this hearty Chinese New Year Greeting: Wishing you Prosperity and Good Fortune! 祝你好事發財! And now let me invite you to eat that exact same greeting! Whaaat, you're probably thinking, she's too much in the kitchen and has finally gone nutso!! Wait...what I really mean is let me invite you to feast on the very traditional and very fabulous Chinese New Year's dish of Braised Dried Oysters with Black Sea Moss and Roast Pork, or 髮菜蠔豉燜燒肉.
The Chinese characters for dried oysters and sea moss is 蠔豉髮菜 which sounds almost exactly like 好事發財 which means Prosperity and Good Fortune. Thus, through this auspicious twist of words, you can actually feast on a savory dish of Prosperity and Good Fortune to start off the New Year of the Sheep!
And, indeed, what better way to start off the Chinese New Year than to partake of this intriguingly mysterious yet surpassingly yummilicious combination of unique Chinese ingredients that is the Braised Dried Oysters with Black Sea Moss and Roast Pork!
