Lettuce Wrapped Oysters With Black Mushrooms and Sea Moss
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This is a dish my dad would make and I never really liked it as a kid. My version was slightly tastier (aka sweeter – sorry, dad!) but still not my favorite, which meant I was able to more or less replicate his original. Oysters and mushrooms we’ve talked about and lettuce sounds like bring about good wealth. Sea moss is also ‘fat choy,’ which looks like a bunch of hair, but sounds like congratulations, be prosperous, fortune. It sounds like the Fat Choy in the greeting Gung Hay Fat Choy which is commonly said during new year, meaning May You Come Into Good Fortune. I thought it’d be pretty and yummy to wrap them in lettuce, and it turns out that food rolled into lettuce means having a child soon (er….) http://www.zomppa.com/2010/02/14/year-4708-gung-hay-fat-choy/