An honorable member of the Coffee Shop Has Just Posted the Following:
I was away from Singapore for overseas studies, and when I returned in the later part of the eighties, I witnessed something totally alien to me - Tossing the Fish to celebrate Chinese New Year! It was a messy, noisy, boisterous, and a vulgar, wasteful method to celebrate. I was then told it originated in Singapore, and not from China. Later on, I never noticed PRCs or HongKongers or Taiwanese doing this. If this is meant to symbolize a Singaporean tradition/culture, I wonder where the salmon came from? Caught in the straits locally? By poor fishermen? The way it is done is also disrespectful of food, as much of it lays strewn on the table, some on the floor, during the tossing. Yet, nobody gives a thought to this. They don't give a fuck about it. Just eat. I don't do this at home, and will only do so to oblige the group I am with. Someday, when the good times are over, I'd love to see Singaporeans tossing their food in the air and shouting gleefully phrases of good fortune. And this is not a Chinese tradition, so it should be done at Singapore New Year. Fucking idiots.
Cheers!
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