This ingredient looks like black hair but it's actually a black moss fungi and is a very traditional addition to Chinese dishes for Lunar New Year. It's important to eat lucky dishes for Chinese new year and the reason why it's so popular is because the Chinese name of black moss "髮菜" sounds like "發財", meaning GET RICH and who wouldn't want that? However, harvesting black moss is terrible for the environment because it takes a a lot of resources to dig up the black moss and destroys acres of lan