Yee sang, a Cantonese raw fish salad, is eaten all over Malaysia and Singapore during Lunar New Year. It involves tossing the ingredients as high as you can - the higher you toss the more luck you will have in the new year | ABC EVERYDAY | ABC Australia

Start Chinese New Year right with the luckiest possible dish! Yee Sang Prosperity Salad is a combination of lucky ingredients such as raw salmon, shredded carrot and radish, fried wonton skins, sesame seeds, plum sauce and pomelo - all of which have auspicious significance. The idea is you arrange the salad ingredients on a plate and each person gets a pair of chopsticks to toss the salad high into the air. The higher you throw the salad, the more luck you'll have in the new year! Video brought