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Lunar New Year: Lucky 88 Chinese banquet recipes

Happy New Year! Kung Hei Fat Choy! Celebrate the Year of the Rabbit with a build-your-own banquet from these 88 Asian-inspired recipes, and consult our guides to Chinese banquet etiquette and the auspicious meanings behind certain 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.

Char siu (Cantonese barbecue pork)

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Tony Tan
These sweet, sticky sesame rice balls often roll around on yum cha trolleys.

Helen Goh's jian dui (crispy sesame balls)

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Helen Goh
Symbolic steamed snapper.

Steamed whole fish with soy, ginger and spring onion recipe

  • < 30 mins
  • Andrew McConnell
Toss the salad together for good luck.

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

  • < 30 mins
  • Kylie Kwong
Kylie Kwong's spanner crab and ginger dumplings with chilli oil and Sichuan pepper and salt.

Crab and ginger dumplings with Sichuan chilli oil

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Kylie Kwong
Silky, mouth-watering, delectable, clean-tasting wontons.

Prawn wontons with spring onion, ginger and vinegar dressing recipe

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Kylie Kwong
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Spinach and dried shrimp wontons.

Spinach and dried shrimp wontons

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Adam Liaw
Steamed Murray cod with red chilli oil.

Steamed Murray cod with red chilli oil

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
Dragon and phoenix longevity noodles.

Dragon and phoenix longevity noodles

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Adam Liaw
Red-braised lion's head

Red-braised lion's heads (meatballs)

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Adam Liaw
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Red-braised pork belly

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Neil Perry
Serve the steamed dumplings with chilli oil and chopped chives.

Siu mai (steamed pork and prawn dumplings)

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Tony Tan
Claypot rice with chicken and choy sum.

Rosheen Kaul's claypot rice

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Rosheen Kaul
Neil Perry's salt and pepper squid.
EASY

Neil Perry's salt and pepper squid

  • < 30 mins
  • Neil Perry
Steamed snapper in glass noodles.

Steamed snapper in glass noodles

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
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Braised wagyu in home-made XO chilli sauce.

Braised wagyu in home-made XO chilli sauce

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Neil Perry
Kylie Kwong's everyday fried rice.
EASY

Kylie Kwong's fried rice

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Kylie Kwong
Honey chicken meets lemon chicken, with a bonus kick from Sichuan pepper.
EASY

Honey chicken meets lemon chicken

  • < 30 mins
  • Katrina Meynink
Asian greens.

How to cook Asian greens like a Chinese restaurant

Lime and pineapple tartlets for Lunar New Year.

Pineapple jam and lime tarts

  • 2 hrs +
  • Helen Goh
Barbecued snapper with black beans and salted chillies

Snapper with black beans and salted chillies

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Neil Perry
Aussie-Chinese: Deep-fried duck with quandong, Davidson's plum and orange sauce.

Deep-fried duck with plum and orange sauce recipe

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Kylie Kwong
Pippies with XO chilli sauce.

XO chilli sauce (to stir-fry with pipis)

  • 2 hrs +
  • Jill Dupleix
Neil Perry's Chilli chicken with chestnuts, black funghi and celery.

Chilli chicken with chestnuts and black funghi

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Neil Perry
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Beef ma po tofu.
EASY

Beef ma po tofu recipe

  • < 30 mins
  • Neil Perry
Chinese-style braised pork belly.
EASY

Chinese-style braised pork belly recipe

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Neil Perry
Fried ice-cream with caramel sauce.

Fried ice-cream recipe

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
Wontons with prawn and chilli oil.

Prawn wontons with chilli oil and soy sauce

  • < 30 mins
  • Neil Perry
Scallop and ginger dumplings with Sichuan chilli dressing.

Scallop and ginger dumplings with Sichuan chilli dressing

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Kylie Kwong
Kylie Kwong's Chinese-style coleslaw.
EASY

Chinese-style coleslaw recipe with Asian herbs

  • < 30 mins
  • Kylie Kwong
Stuffed eggplant with black bean sauce.

Stuffed eggplant with black bean sauce

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
Chinese-style dry-seared beans

Chinese-style dry-seared beans

  • < 30 mins
  • Steve Manfredi
Chicken ginger egg fried rice.
EASY

Fried rice with chicken, ginger and egg

  • < 30 mins
  • Karen Martini
Crispy fried snapper with sweet and sour sauce.
EASY

Crispy fried snapper with sweet and sour sauce

  • < 30 mins
  • Neil Perry
Pork and chive dumplings with red vinegar sauce.

Pork and chive dumplings with red vinegar

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Neil Perry
Prawn wonton soup.

Prawn wonton and noodle soup

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
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