Mar
04

The Chinese version of Valentine’s Day

Posted by pelf in Life as I see it

It’s the 15th day of the Lunar New Year, which is traditionally known as “Chap Goh Mei” and also commercially known as the Chinese’ Valentine’s Day. Yup, today is THE day single girls throw mandarin oranges into the river and bachelors will fish them out somewhere downstream.

Mandarin oranges

Well, I don’t quite like the idea (or tradition, as you’d put it) because I see it as a waste of food. Edible food. Either way, I hope you had a wonderful Chinese New Year and may the Year of the Boar brings you more luck, prosperity, good health and success!

Speaking of which, I missed MY Prosperity Burger!


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  1. kampungkai Posted on March 4th, 2007 at 2:10 pm

    mum said: dun waste food. oranges are for eating, not for throwing.
    rite??? hahahhah Happy Chinese New Year and Happy Chap Goh Meh 2u! :)

    pelf: Yes, good boy :)

  2. Grace Posted on March 4th, 2007 at 3:22 pm

    I’m not going to throw any mandarin oranges. Want to save the last mandarin orange in the fridge for my tummy! :)

    pelf: Aha.. :)

  3. Feli Posted on March 8th, 2007 at 11:56 am

    eh, you know, a food science girl told me that when she did her LI in McD, she found out that the meat they use for the prosperity burger is from expired meat! (O_o)

    dunno whether true or not laaa…

    pelf: OMG.. If that was true, I can foresee a lot of problems if somebody brought this up!