No-nonsense fengshui

Money is food for the soul.  Money buys food as breadwinners bring home the bacon!  Food becomes the ultimate expression of filial and fraternal unconditional love at any time, as food for the soul indeed!

So you better watch out, you better eat well 'coz am telling you why!  Food can delightfully satisfy not only one's hunger but also attract luck and prosperity using feng shui principles. Instead of just foods for nutrition, for special occasions like baptism, parties, weddings, even funerals, you may serve food for the living and even the dead in feng shui for luck, good health, prosperity and happiness in the name of love!

Food is sacred and feng shui lucky foods are governed by yin yang principles of balance. Hot and cold meal combinations with drinks provide healthy resonance of human life energies that sustains our animo for living!  Simple as ice cold beverages or drinks with food stimulate us, hot ones tend to depress.  Food for moods, so to speak!

Colorful food preparations is not only the domain of culinary arts but also a science in feng shui.  It follows too the color harmony principles of the five elements of feng shui - greens for wood, whites for metal, reds for fire, yellow for earth and blue, black for water!  Wholesome combinations can evoke not only gustatory delights but eye candies, too.

So there are lucky foods one can prepare for any occasion, whatever the season, even glutinous sweet rice cakes or tikoy, ever so popular in Chinese traditions, especially during New Year.

Tikoy symbolizes unity being round.  It is gifted or served symbolically as a gesture of goodwill so the recipient or guest will not say anything bad about the giver or host!  Food served normally to attract luck and prosperity are as follows:

Whole chicken in any dish, inclusive of head and feet to signify close and harmonious family ties.  Junk Filipino superstition that chicken is "isang kahig, isang tuka or one scratch, one peck bad luck situation".

Peking duck or any duck symbolizes fidelity in love and marriage. 

Oysters, clam soup, mussels or tahong attract the greatest prosperity for individuals and businesses.

Fruits come in two versions: for western Christmas/New Year, 12 kinds of round fruits to symbolize twelve months in a year of prosperity! And for Chinese Christmas , next day new year's day it is only 8 kinds of round fruits plus a pineapple to welcome luck and prosperity!

Desserts galore consist of anything that rises like glutinous cakes or puto, to symbolize rising prosperity in all lucky five colors to represent balanced prosperity and wealth!

Birthday or not, uncut noodles always signify long life!  That's it pancit!

But what gives real wealthy and lucky flavor for food in any occasion? It's the happy  company we keep with it! Simple but delightful lucky eating! Kong Hei Fat Choi!!!  Cheers!

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