LAP CHEONG

A favourite around this time is the lap cheong "臘腸", a waxed Chinese sausage used in many festive dishes. The lap cheong is a dried, hard sausage usually made from pork and a high content of fat. This sausage is usually smoked, sweetened and seasoned with Rose water, rice wine and soy sauce.

This delicacy is highly popular during the Chinese New Year.  People usually buy them and give the lap cheong as gifts to their friends and relatives for this festival.  I don't eat lap cheong and they don't mean much to me.  My mum and aunt used to like eating them but then they are now very particular about what they eat and so this is also something that they rarely eat.

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