Prosperity Salad 魚生撈起
For this recipe, anything goes. We want lots of colour and preferably foods with auspicious names and meanings. Pick and choose from the following: lettuce, carrots, white radish, abalone, eggs, peanuts, scallops, shrimp, fish, jelly fish, salmon roe, tobiko, pomelo, celery, apples, peppers, octopus, lobster, sea cucumber, geoduck, cucumber, leeks, green papaya, cucumbers, noodles and garlic. The list can go on. You also want a topper… something crispy, like croutons in a salad. You can use deep-fried spring roll wrappers. We usually crush up a bag of pea crackers and they taste great with the salad. You can add any kind of sauce or dressing. The traditional Cantonese sauce uses tangerine juice with plum sauce. My favourite is Thai chili sauce mixed with Japanese mayo.
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Hong Kong Style Potato Salad 港式薯仔沙律
I used a Hami melon because I like the crispy melon meat and the size and shape was suitable for stuffing it with the salad. You can also use a cantaloupe or honeydew. Quail eggs can be substituted with chicken eggs. But you’d probably want to cut them into smaller pieces. I’ve been at some restaurants that use canned peaches, pineapples and mixed fruit. Lobster can also be used instead of shrimp. Then you can use the lobster tail shell as a serving bowl for the salad. Super fancy!
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