How Do I Make A Lo Hei Dog for Chinese New Year In Singapore or anywhere?

Problem
The advantage of travelling and being an ex-pat is that I have lived all over the world. I now have lots of Chinese friends in Singapore who celebrate Chinese New Year with the Singaporean Lo Hei, a dish of many colours which bring prosperity. The name means prosperity toss, or raw fish, in assorted dialects.

You all use chopsticks to mix the food around and toss the food in the air as high as you can - which is supposed to bring you higher levels of prosperity and health. I want to be able to make a Lo Hei dog for the year of the dog with a dog face. How do I do it?

This version has cashew nuts, lower right edge of the plate. They have been adventurous with the colours of the dog which has shaggy carrot orange hair or ears and arched green eyebrows. I like the neat little birds' nests of shredded vegetables are around the outside. The fancy plate is white with an embossed design.

This dog has more realistic colours. The plate is a jolly orange. Orange or red are the colours of New Year and the lanterns which hang everywhere in Singapore in front of and inside restaurants in shopping malls, hotel lobbies and atriums and streets and even around swimming pools.

Answers
The first requirement is the ingredients.

For the
green, shredded cucumber. Parsely. For the
orange, shredded carrot. Mandarin or clementine segments. For the
yellow, maybe grated cheese, cooked parsnip
white - pickled onions, radish
Red - tomato
Black eyes, Two olives or one sliced in two. Or black grape.
For the nose, brown glacé cherry or sultanas.
For the collar, sliced dates.
For the ears shredded brown vegetable, hash browns or rosti.
For the mouth, red cherry.

You also need smoked salmon or other fish.

A few people have suggestions for DIY lo hei:
http://www.ladyironchef.com/2016/01/yusheng-diy-recipe/

Author
Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer