Chinese New Year?
Why?
Unable to be frugality off menu
▹The celebration during the new Lunar New Year comes with
high spirits and even higher mountains of wasted food – a chronic problem in
the increasingly wealthy country that seems to be exacerbated during the
festive season, in part because of cultural habits.
Superstitious spendthrifts
▹Ordering more than diners can chew during this time of the
year is rooted in the common belief that eating certain food items could
attract happiness, longevity and success among other sought-after goals in the
year to come.
▹Dumplings and spring rolls are a sign of wealth, fish
represents prosperity, a whole chicken symbolizes family unity, noodles
represent long life and nian gao (年糕)
– a type
of glutinous rice – is
believed to help businesses flourish, students get better grades, children grow
taller and workers receive promotions as the Chinese characters 糕 and 高 (tall
or high) are homophones.
▹The similarity of the sounds of fish (鱼) and surplus (余) in Chinese also leads people not to
finish their fish dishes, guided by the belief that leftovers will pave the way
for abundance and riches in the following year.
A weighty issue
▹In fact, managing to "save face" is no light
issue, costing 20 grams of food wasted per person per meal on average,
according to the study by the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
▹The research was carried out by a 140-strong team who
monitored and weighed food wastage in 366 restaurants in four Chinese cities,
namely Beijing, Shanghai, Chengdu in the southwestern Chinese Province of
Sichuan, and Lhasa, the capital of the Tibet Autonomous Region.
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Yusheng, Yee sang, Yu sahng, Prosperity Toss or Lo Hei that has been wasted by tossing it onto the table.
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⥤ For more information about reasons food waste occur during CNY and Prosperity Toss, please visit this corresponding websites
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↳ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yusheng
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