Homemade cookies, Mandarin oranges and big feasts are part of the Chinese New Year traditions every year. Then, there’s Yee Sang’ or ‘Lou Sang’ – a once-in-a-year dish with nicely arranged ingredients like gingers, yams, papayas, and crackers typically served with plum sauce on Yee Sang platters. You can find them available on seasonal menus in many Chinese restaurants and cafes.
But if you are planning to celebrate at home, you can do so by ordering ready-made Yee sang that come in prepackaged forms. So, where to buy Yee Sang? It’s easy to order them online via Yee Sang delivery on e-commerce platforms, where they have plenty of prosperity Yee Sang sets to choose from. Here are the best Chinese New Year Yee Sangs you can buy below.
Top 12 Ready-Made Yee Sang for Chinese New Year 2024
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Overview
Operating since 1971, Kum Thim Food Industries Sdn Bhd is primarily known for its MCM soy sauce products. But the company has also made its mark in manufacturing varieties of prepacked yee sangs made convenient for everyone to enjoy out of the boxes.
If you are looking for vegetarian yee sang, the light-tasting and appetising Prosperity Vegetarian Yee Sang comes in the form of a takeaway pack containing over 10 individually packed ingredients.
Consists of:
- Container/Package Size: 600g (For 8 - 10 people)
- Ingredients: Dry Lime Slice, Red Yam Slice, Bo Cui Crackers, White Ginger Slice, Red Ginger Slice, Potato Slice, Papaya Slice, Grinded Sesame, Grinded Groundnut, Pepper Powder, Herbs Spices Powder
- Halal: Yes
Overview
Lovely Candy specialises in vegetarian products from noodles to traditional biscuits and yee sangs. For the latter, they offer prepacked yee sangs in a bag or a tray, ready to be tossed at any time.
Each pack is included with the quintessential yee sang ingredients like red & white gingers, pickled cucumber, fried peanuts and yee sang sauce.
Details
- Container/Package Size: 300g, 600g & 800g (For 4 - 10 people)
- Ingredients: Red Ginger, White Ginger, Pickled Cucumber, Pickled Green, Pickled Leek, Yee Sang Sauce, Fried Peanuts, Fried Sesame, Crispy Cracker, Mix Green & Red Yams, Cinnamon Powder Pack, White Pepper Powder Pack
- Halal: Vegetarian-friendly
Overview
Suitable for 4-6 pax, the prepacked MCM Hoong Wan Prosperity Yee Sang comes in a red box with individually packed assorted ingredients. Best of all, they are all from halal ingredients so you can enjoy them together with your Muslim friends, colleagues or families.
You will find different bites and textures like ginger slices, papaya slices, pickled leek slices and crunchy bo cui crackers, just to name a few.
Details
- Container/Package Size: 360g (For 4 - 6 people)
- Ingredients: Red Ginger Slice, Yellow Ginger Slice, Papaya Slice, Pickled Leek Slice, Red Yam Slice, Green Yam Slice, Yellow Yam Slice, China Cucumber Slice, Bo Cui Cracker, Grinded Peanut, Sesame
- Halal: Yes
Overview
Spring Toss prides itself in offering consumers its colourful range of quality yee sang products. Apart from supplying their products to supermarkets, cafes, hotels and restaurants, you can also purchase them online from the comfort of your home.
Interestingly, Spring Toss also offers a twist to the otherwise traditional yee sang with plum sauce. Each box contains the likes of papaya slices, gingers, leeks and groundnuts with a special Korean Spicy Garlic Sauce, giving you a uniquely distinct taste for a change to celebrate this Year of the Dragon.
Details
- Container/Package Size: 500g (For 8 - 10 people)
- Ingredients: Ginger, Papaya, Leeks, Yam, Groundnuts, Sesame Seeds, Lime, Plum, Flour, Pepper, Spices, Vinegar, Sugar, Water, Vegetable Oil
- Halal: N/A
Overview
Enjoy an abundance of colourful tosses even in small groups regardless of families, friends, or colleagues with this Mini Pack Yee Sang from Spring Toss. Best for 4-6 persons, this prepacked yee sang contains ready-to-eat, vegetarian-friendly ingredients such as papaya, ginger, leeks, and yam. You can also consider adding fresh ingredients like a salmon slice to level up your yee sang dish.
Details
- Container/Package Size: 350g (For 4 - 6 people)
- Ingredients: Ginger, Papaya, Leeks, Yam, Groundnuts, Sesame Seeds, Lime, Plum, Wheat Flour, Pepper, Five Fragrances Spices, Vinegar, Sugar, Water, Vegetable Oil
- Halal: Vegetarian-Friendly
Overview
Hailing from Teluk Intan, TaoSifu InHome Dining specialises in quality cooking and ready-to-eat products from seasonings to pastes, snacks and sauces. They also released a prepacked yee sang product, offering various ingredients from ginger slices to yam slices and bo cui crackers – all of which are individually packed in a box.
- Container/Package Size: N/A (for up to 6 people)
- Ingredients: China Cucumber Slice, Yellow Ginger Slice, Red Ginger Slice, Mixed Yam Slices (Red, Yellow & Green), Grinded Peanut & Sesame Mix, Pepper Powder, Herbs Spices Powder, Papaya Slice, Bo Cui Cracker, Ready Mixed Sauce
- Halal: N/A
Overview
Eu Yan Sang is no stranger to many Malaysians, given its illustrious history in high-quality Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) products for more than a century. Their products are diverse including a prepacked yee sang, all neatly and individually packed in a covered tray. There’s an intricately designed hand-carry bag included, making it suitable for gifting.
Their yee sang can be enjoyed by up to 10 persons and in it, you will find usual ingredients like pickled slices from China cucumber to papaya, ginger and leek as savoury pepper & herbs spices powders and a ready mixed sauce.
Details
- Container/Package Size: 600g (For up to 10 people)
- Ingredients: Ready Mixed Sauce, Bo Cui Cracker, Grinded Peanut, Sesame Mix, Pickled China Cucumber Slice, Pickled Papaya Slice, Pickled Ginger Slice, Pickled Red Ginger Slice, Pickled Leek Slice, Assorted Yam Slice, Dry Lime Slice, Pepper Powder, Herbs Spices Powder
- Halal: N/A
Overview
Made from wholesome and natural ingredients, the premium Signature Market Fortune Yee Sang packs the assorted sliced goodness of Thai dried mango, ginger, Chinese cucumber and almonds among others.
Each pack comes with crunchy multi-grain wavy chips and colourful veggie crisps and of course, a sour plum calamansi sauce that is less sweet for guilt-free enjoyment.
Details
- Container/Package Size: 364g (For 4 - 6 people)
- Ingredients: Grinded Groundnut, Creamy Salted Egg Fish Skin, Pickled Chinese Cucumber, Thai Dried Mango, White Ginger Slice, Real Veggie Crisps, Honey Stick, White Sesame, Almond Slice, Whole Dried Cherry Tomato, 3 Treasure Sour Plum Calamansi Sauce, Dried Yuzu Rind, Rompine Pineapple, Multi-Grain Wavy Chips, White Pepper, Five Spices Seasoning
- Halal: N/A
Overview
As the name suggests, the ready-to-eat Spring Toss Easy Tub Yee Sang combines separately packed traditional ingredients in a convenient plastic tub. It’s easy to repack this if you are planning to give it away as a gift. The great thing about this yee sang is that it's filled with natural ingredients.
Best for large-group serving, each packet has familiar sliced ingredients like papaya, leeks, ginger and yam with added pepper and five fragrances spices.
- Container/Package Size: 550g
- Ingredients: Ginger, Papaya, Leeks, Yam, Groundnuts, Sesame Seeds, Lime, Plum, Wheat Flour, Pepper, Five Fragrances Spices, Vinegar, Sugar, Water, Vegetable Oil
- Halal: Vegetarian-Friendly
Overview
If you are looking for some additional bites in your yee sang dish, consider getting this Yee Sang + Fortune Cookies Pack from Spring Toss in a convenient hand-carry tub. The tub itself comes in handy if you planning to buy it for gifting purposes.
In this option, you will find yee sang ingredients from papaya, and ginger to groundnuts and leeks. And not to forget, there are eight pieces of fortune cookies included, making it perfect for an 8-person sharing.
- Container/Package Size: 500g
- Ingredients: Ginger, Papaya, Leeks, Yam, Groundnuts, Sesame Seeds, Lime, Plum, Flour, Pepper, Spices, Vinegar, Sugar, Water, Vegetable Oil, Fortune Cookies
- Halal: Vegetarian-Friendly
Overview
Thinking of getting a prepacked yee sang for a CNY gift this year? The Kepong-based My Home Yee Sang has released its yee sang product in a hand-carry paper bag. In it, you will find individually vacuum-packed ingredients containing 12 ingredients in total. This includes the likes of papaya, ginger, pickled leek, assorted yam slices and yee sang sauce. Best for 8-10-person sharing.
- Container/Package Size: N/A (For 8 - 10 people)
- Ingredients: Papaya Slice, White Ginger Slice, Red Ginger Slice, Pickled Leek Slice, Cucumber Slice, Red Yam Slice, Green Yam Slice, Grinded Peanut, Sesame, Yee Sang Sauce, Oil, Crackers
- Halal: N/A
Overview
Fish slices on a yee sang platter signify an added prosperity and here at Lucky Yee Sang, their prepacked yee sang product is included with fresh salmon sashimi. The seafood ingredients’ sweetness complements well with the rest of the assorted sliced ingredients. Among them are radishes, carrots, purple cabbage, sunflower seeds, and Mandarin orange.
Each pack comes with a citrus plum zest sauce, giving your yee sang dish a distinctly sweet and sour taste.
- Container/Package Size: N/A
- Ingredients: Salmon Sashimi, Shredded Radish, Shredded Carrot, Shredded Purple Cabbage, Chuka Kurage & Wakame, Pineapple, Lettuce, Golden Shredded Egg, Sunflower Seeds, Roasted Sesame, Crunchy Salmon Skin, Mandarin Orange, Citrus Plum Zest Sauce
- Halal: N/A
FAQ:
- What is yee sang?
No Chinese New Year celebration would be complete without the prosperity tossing of colourful shredded or sliced ingredients on a round platter. Those ingredients in question are known as yee sang. This essential CNY dish is a type of assorted salad topped with a fresh, raw ingredient (i.e., fish) and they are normally enjoyed with the sweet and sour plum sauce drizzled altogether.
- What to say during yee sang?
Upon serving a yee sang dish on the table, everyone would stand up and get ready with their pairs of chopsticks to toss and lift the colourful ingredients on the platter in a harmonious manner. Tossing yee sang also means they have to say (read: shout) common auspicious CNY phrases like “Gong Xi Fa Cai”, “shun shun li li” (everything goes smoothly) and “shen ti jian kang” (wishing one’s good health).
Other phrases to say include:
- “nian nian you yuu” (Having more than enough)
- “da ji da li” (Wishing you prosperity and luck)
- “cai yuan guang jin” (May wealth come in from all directions)
- “tian tian mi mi” (Wishing you a sweet life)
- “bu bu gao sheng” (Make steady progress)
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