Joseph Chau's feng shui predictions for 2013 and the Chinese New Year

Today I took some time off from the office to head for the Mandarin Oriental for lunch with Master Joseph Chau, one of the foremost specialists on feng shui, at Tin Hau.

Tin Hau is incidentally one of my favorite Chinese restaurants in Manila, although I never go often enough, amidst my never-endingly eventful Travelife.

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EATING FOR PROSPERITY

And I certainly ate with gusto even if I actually have a very nice and big dinner coming up tonight at the Old Manila restaurant of the Peninsula Manila with some good friends, including the Ambassador of Australia.

Greg Doyle, one of Australia's top chefs, is cooking us a feast tonight.

INGREDIENTS FOR SUCCESS

We started with an appetizer trio that's traditionally served for Chinese New Year.

This included jelly fish marinated in the Szechuan style, Peking duck rolls and Ngo Hiang rolls served in the Fujian style. I especially liked the Ngo Hiang rolls, which tasted somewhat like meat loaf.

Then we had a soup of braised assorted seafood with crab roe and tofu, followed by wok-fried prawns with X.O. sauce.

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Joseph Chau's feng shui predictions for 2013 and the Chinese New Year