Lunar New Year is here and it’s the season for joyful gatherings with friends and family, sharing blessings with red packets and the most important part – indulging in delicious festive treats A list of the best easy Cantonese/ Hong Kong recipes that you can cook at home, and are better than takeout. From Congee, fried rice, Dim Sum and Char Siu to Wonton Soup, Sweet and Sour Pork, Egg Tarts, Pineapple Buns and even drinks such as Yuan Yang Milk Tea, I have the Hong Kong recipes for you! Perfect for Lunar New Year 2025. Chinese New Year is all about gathering with family and friends to welcome the new year, which falls on January 29 this year! For 15 days, we will gather with our loved ones and share delicious meals. Chinese New Year food is literally a feast of sorts, like turnip cakes and CNY puddings; and these foods are eaten for auspicious reasons. A lot of the food listed in this article can still be found at that time and enjoyed all year round. Chinese New Year is full of dishes and desserts with meaning, tradition, and delicious taste! Other popular foods include spring rolls, fruits, and more. Enjoying them in Hong Kong is an experience like no other. Chinese New Year Recipes. The Lunar New Year, known in China as chūnjié (春节) or Spring Festival, is a festive time for many all over the world. The holiday features fireworks, new clothes, money-filled red envelopes (or hóngbāo – 红包) for kids, lots of red, and most importantly, tons of good food. Chinese New Year food traditions Try these auspicious Chinese New Year food and snacks 1. Chinese New Year cakes and puddings Lung King Heen’s Chinese New Year cakes. The most traditional Chinese New Year cakes are the New Year cake and turnip cake. Sweet and indulgent, the New Year cake – also known as neen gou (年糕) – is a common treat made with glutinous rice flour Image source: Soil to Soul/Hong Kong Nin Gou: Growth . Growth plays a huge role in the Chinese New Year celebrations. The familiar image of the Sweet Rice Cake, or nin gou, is a welcome sight during the Lunar New Year. Nin gou, which means ‘higher by the year’, symbolises progress and growth. This year, we asked chefs at three of Hong Kong’s most popular and established Chinese and Cantonese restaurants to share their favourite recipes and take a walk down memory lane. Three Acclaimed Hong Kong Chefs on Their Chinese New Year Food Memories Spring Moon at The Peninsula Hong Kong – Executive Chef Lam Yuk Ming During the Lunar New Year, these fruits can be found everywhere, from flower markets to shopping malls to fai chun and lai sees. Glutinous rice dumplings Photograph: Courtesy Shutterstock The Year of the Snake 🐍 (蛇年) is fast approaching!In 2025, the Chinese Lunar New Year falls on Wednesday, January 29, and the celebration lasts at least 15 days.To help you prepare for celebratory meals, I’ve curated 30 popular recipes for this most important occasion. Baking, Chinese New Year Recipes, Chinese Recipes, COOK, Desserts, Holiday Recipes, International Recipes, Recipes, Recipes By Course, Sweet Tarts If you have ever had egg custard tarts and liked them, you simply must make these Hong Kong Egg Tarts ! The Chinese have this cake especially at Chinese New Years when the weather usually turns quite cold. So when you get up in the frosty morning you can steam up a delicious block of radish cake for breakfast or, if any New Year's visitors come a calling in the afternoon, you can slice some thinner slices of radish cake to be panned fried in a bit of oil until golden brown and each side and Thus the perfect cake for the Chinese New Year is the perfectly round Nian Gao, or 年糕, a celebration in itself of perfect harmony and balance. Also known as Chinese Sweet Rice Cake, Nian Gao is a delicious sweet treat that is made and served throughout the Chinese New Year, both to family and to visitors that drop by on their New Year's visits. Here are some easy, popular and meaningful recipes for your New Year celebrations. (They're all Chinese sweets, ranging from Hong Kong to Singapore and Shanghai- whilst I enjoy other Asian cuisines, I find it weird to serve Japanese desserts for Chinese New Year!) Note: click here for savory Chinese New Year dishes! Published: 2014-01-27 It's that time of the year for the most important Chinese Festival of the whole year: Chinese New Year, or 中國農曆新年! A festive time filled with wintery skies, red packets (紅包), relatives (and more relatives!), feasts (and more feasts!), the all important color Red and visiting old friends. The Hong Kong Victoria Park Chinese New Year Flower Market is held for the 5 days leading up to the first day of the Chinese New Year (which is the 19th of Feb this year), so you still have time to go and enjoy the festive fun and get a great deal on your New Year's flowers!! Chinese New Year Recipes. Chinese New Year is just around the corner For 2024, it'll be on Saturday, February 10th. I've put together a Chinese New Year 101 page where you can learn a little bit about the history, food, etiquettes and customs. These vibrant decorations not only set the perfect festive mood but also provide fantastic photo opportunities—ideal for capturing memories with visiting friends and family. Read on to explore the best Chinese New Year mall decorations in Hong Kong for 2025! More Chinese New Year Guides For Families In 2025. Chinese New Year Dining 2025 The Chinese characters for dried oysters and sea moss is 蠔豉髮菜 which sounds almost exactly like 好事發財 which means Prosperity and Good Fortune. Thus, through this auspicious twist of words, you can actually feast on a savory dish of Prosperity and Good Fortune to start off the New Year of the Sheep! This year I decided to add a twist on the usual sweet rice cake by adding flower blossoms to the mix. This Osmanthus Chinese New Year Rice Cake 桂花年糕 is made with osmanthus infused sugar syrup, resulting in a cake that has all the wonderful chewy rice-i-ness of the traditional rice cake but permeated with the lightly floral, sweet and mouthwatering fragrance of the osmanthus flower.
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