Luck is in the air with our Lo Hei salad

Posted on February 5, 2015

Guests joining us to celebrate Chinese New Year on Thursday 19th February will be able to enjoy a very special dish as part of the evening’s ‘Double Happiness’ menu – this traditional Lo Hei (撈起) salad.

Lo Hei is a fortune- and prosperity-bringing dish especially popular at Chinese New Year. Its origins date back more than 750 years to the days of the Song Dynasty, when fishermen along the coast of China would celebrate the seventh day of Chinese New Year, known as Renri or ‘everyone’s birthday’, with this fresh fish and diced vegetable dish.

Our Lo Hei consists of salmon, yellow tail and shredded abalone served on a colourful bed of assorted vegetables, with six special condiments – dried shrimp, dried conpoy, sesame seeds, lemon juice, pomelo segments and sweet plum sauce.

According to tradition, the host of the table adds the condiments in order and then everyone at the table takes their chopsticks and tosses the salad, calling out “Lo Hei!” which means “to mix it up” but also sounds like “to prosper more and more”. The higher you toss the more prosperous you will be!

Lo Hei is being served as part of the Double Happiness menu (£88) available only on Chinese New Year, Thursday 19th February. To book, please visit the About Us page.

Chinese New Year is now fully booked but do call us on the day on 020 3011 1257 in case of cancellations.