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Please do not say "Our forefathers".

Mine passed down the tradition of cooking and eating dishes with auspicious names.

We certainly did not eat fish balls, meat balls cooked in a pot of boiling water for CNY reunion dinner.

Stop making excuses and being defensive.

You buggers eat that BECAUSE  you don't know how to fooking cook.  It's been that way, eating "steamboat" for over two decades until you buggers think it is a Chinese tradition.  Lol!

But it was NOT that way with our forefathers (except yours).  The mothers of a generation gone by would buy a live chicken from the market and even knew how to slaughter it, and cook it just right.  Very tender.  Ask the chabors of today to do that...and see what they say..

You know...frozen chicken...the meat is tasteless.  You need to season it to mask the tastelessness.  Rub salt to toughen up the meat which has gone soft.

One level better than that is chicken slaughtered at 4 am and delivered to the market or supermarket...but with the latter, you might be sold yesterday's chicken parts.

The freshest is chicken slaughtered on the spot and cooked.   It's really like the difference between fish which is dead for several hours and sold in the market, and live fish from a tank, slaughtered and cooked on the spot.  

Quite obvious that several of you here don't understand what I am saying.  Worse yet, you have LOST Chinese culture for all that it is worth. Shame on all of you man.