Source: Oriental Daily, The Sun
Translated by: aZnangel @ http://asianuniverse.net/forums/




Linda Chung drags Moses Chan for Open Year meal, becomes Fat Ox

Despite the financial crisis, Moses Chan, Linda Chung, Selena Li and Chris Lai Lok Yi met up to have an Open Year meal together, having large amounts of OX related foods.

Every second day of the Lunar New Year, everyone would gather together to have an Open Year dinner, having large amounts of food and new clothing. TVB's Fadans and Siu Sangs, Moses Chan, Linda Chung, Selena Li and Lai Lok Yi especially met up for a (米飯班主) opening new year meal arranged by an advertising company, hoping that in the year of the Ox the economy will recover and jobs will keep coming.

The four of them were very talkative during the dinner, they had lucky dishes. Linda said: "Every year on Lunar New Year's day, my family would walk around the garden three times, the meaning is to have lots of luck. On the second day of new years, we would have an opening year meal together, each time my mom would have many many dishes prepared. There will always be fish, representing having excess in the new year."

Selena and Chris feels that when having an opening dinner, must have Black Moss (Fat Choy) and dried oysters, the meaning is to have a prosperous year. Selena said: "I hope that in the year of the Ox, the economy could recover, with everyone having fish and shark fins for dinner!" As for Chris, he expressed that every year he would always meet up with his manager and God Sister Yoyo Mung for a meal. He estimates that in one year, he probably eats many opening year meals, where each meal is filled with new year dishes. As for Moses, he laughed and said that every year he would stuff himself so much that his stomach gets so full and fat. Although he's too lazy to care about the New Year meanings, but he said that there cannot leave out the mushrooms: "because I love to eat mushrooms!"