Lunar New Year: Lucky 88 Chinese banquet recipes

Lunar New Year: Lucky 88 Chinese banquet recipes

Happy New Year! Kung Hei Fat Choy! Celebrate the Year of the Tiger with a build-your-own banquet from these 88+ Asian-inspired recipes.

Yee sang (good luck salad).

Chinese New Year good luck salad is tossed together at the table.

A guide to the auspicious meanings behind Chinese New Year foods

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This simple recipe results in char siu as authentic as the ones you'll find in the best Cantonese restaurants.

MEDIUM

Char siu (Cantonese barbecue pork)

30 mins - 1 hour

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These sweet, sticky sesame rice balls often roll around on yum cha trolleys.

DIFFICULT

Jian dui (crispy sesame balls)

1-2 hours

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Symbolic steamed snapper.

MEDIUM

Steamed whole fish with soy, ginger and spring onion

< 30 mins

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Toss the salad together for good luck.

MEDIUM

Kylie Kwong's Chinese New Year good luck salad (yee sang)

< 30 mins

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Kylie Kwong's crab dumplings with chilli oil and Sichuan pepper and salt.

MEDIUM

Crab and ginger dumplings with Sichuan chilli oil

30 mins - 1 hour

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Silky, mouth-watering, delectable, clean-tasting wontons.

MEDIUM

Prawn wontons with spring onion, ginger and vinegar dressing

30 mins - 1 hour

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Spinach and dried shrimp wontons.

DIFFICULT

Spinach and dried shrimp wontons

30 mins - 1 hour

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Steamed Murray cod with red chilli oil.

MEDIUM

Steamed Murray cod with red chilli oil

< 30 mins

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Dragon and phoenix longevity noodles.

MEDIUM

Dragon and phoenix longevity noodles

30 mins - 1 hour

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Red-braised lion's head

MEDIUM

Red-braised lion's heads (meatballs)

1-2 hours

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Red-braised pork belly.

MEDIUM

Red-braised pork belly

1-2 hours

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Recipe for Chinese greens from Adam Liaw's new cookbook.

How to cook Asian greens like a Chinese restaurant

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Neil Perry's salt and pepper squid.

EASY

Neil Perry's salt and pepper squid

< 30 mins

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Steamed snapper in glass noodles.

MEDIUM

Steamed snapper in glass noodles

< 30 mins

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Braised wagyu in home-made XO chilli sauce.

MEDIUM

Braised wagyu in home-made XO chilli sauce

1-2 hours

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Kylie Kwong's everyday fried rice.

EASY

Kylie Kwong's fried rice

30 mins - 1 hour

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This noodle dish, using traditionally long noodle strands, represents longevity.

MEDIUM

Andrew McConnell's chilled noodles with sesame dressing

30 mins - 1 hour

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Chinese tea beside chopsticks.

Chinese New Year

Honour, respect and table manners: a guide to Chinese banquet etiquette

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Lime and pineapple tartlets for Lunar New Year.

MEDIUM

Lime and pineapple tartlets for Lunar New Year

2 hours +

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