Lunar New Year Recipes

Lunar New Year recipes for good luck and great prosperity. From tang yuan and changshou mian to dayu darou and babao fan—all foods with a symbolic significance.

Overhead view of finished Tang Yuan on two bowls with one opened on a soup spoon

Tang Yuan (Chinese Glutinous Rice Balls)

A bowl of Cantonese roast duck soup with noodles

3-Step Cantonese Roast Duck Soup Noodles

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Law Bok Gow (Chinese Turnip Cake)

A large bowl of longevity noodles are served on a red table, alongside a pot of tea. Diners serve themselves from the bowl, transferring the long noodles with chopsticks.

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Lunar New Year Banh Chung

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Serious Entertaining: A Chinese New Year Feast

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Hoisin-glazed cocktail meatballs on a white porcelain plate. There is a glass bowl of dipping sauce with a metal spoon on the plate.

Hoisin-Glazed Cocktail Meatballs Recipe

A bowl of sotanghon soup with vegetables quail eggs and mushrooms served alongside a plate of quail eggs

Chicken Sotanghon (Filipino Chicken Soup With Glass Noodles)

A plate with rice beef curry cucumber slices lime wedge and red onions served with a fork

Kala Bhuna (Bengali Spiced Beef Stew)

A fork lifting a piece of Chinesestyle BBQ eggplant garnished with chopped green onions on a plate

Chinese Barbecue Eggplant

Sliced smoked duck breasts garnished with fresh herbs

Green Tea Smoked Duck

A plate of taco rice with beef, lettuce, and sliced tomatoes on top of white rice, served on a striped tablecloth

Okinawan Taco Rice

Overhead view of plated taiwanese braising bowl

Taiwanese Braising Liquid

shrimp fried rice in a small blue and white bowl

13 Fried Rice Recipes That'll Use Up All Your Leftovers

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Overhead view of white spice paste

Bumbu Dasar Putih (Indonesian White Spice Paste)

Overhead view of sambal belcan

Sambal Belacan (Malaysian Chile Paste)

Overhead view of finished sambal tumis

Sambal Tumis (Malaysian Chile Paste)

Overhead view of Nasi Lemak

Nasi Lemak (Malaysian Coconut Rice)

Overhead view of Vietnamese Broken Rice

Cơm Tấm (Vietnamese Broken Rice)

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Canh Chua Cá Thì Là (Vietnamese Fish Soup With Tomato and Dill)

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Garlic Fried Rice Recipe

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Hot and Numbing Shredded Lamb Noodle Soup Recipe

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Lamb Biryani With Saffron, Yogurt, and Caramelized Onions

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Galam Plee Pad Nam Pla (Thai Stir-Fried Cabbage With Fish Sauce and Garlic) Recipe

Overhead view of gong bao ji ding (kung pao chicken), served on a porcelain plate with intricate blue trim.

33 Stir-Fry Recipes For Your Wok

Overhead view of fried bee hoon noodles

Fried Bee Hoon (Singapore Noodles) Recipe

Overhead view of sambal stingray

Sambal Stingray (Malaysian-Portuguese Baked Fish)

17 Recipes for a Homemade Dumpling Feast

Overhead view of taiwanese turkey and rice on a blue and white stripped background

Taiwanese Turkey Rice Recipe

Shrimp chip bags

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Spicy Warm Silken Tofu With Celery and Cilantro Salad Recipe

Coleslaw in Chinese-style Dressing Recipe

Seaweed Salad (Wakame)

Quick Asian Chili-Lime Chicken Soup Recipe

How to Make Kerisik Recipe

A live whole crab next to a large cleaver

Seriously Asian: Crab Two Ways Recipe

Tea Smoked Fish Recipe

Crispy Bánh Mì Spring Rolls With Creamy Chili Mayo Recipe

Durian Smoothie Recipe

Taiwanese Pineapple Cakes (Fung Li Su) Recipe

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Rice Wine and Soy Sauce Dressing Recipe

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Plov (Uzbek Rice Pilaf) Recipe

Two glasses of fruit smoothie next to half a papaya on a table

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Spaghetti Napolitan (Japanese Ketchup Pasta)

2 bowls of minced pork on white rice in a blue bowl and a white bowl, with chop sticks and glasses of water on a green tablecloth

Instant Pot Lu Rou Fan (Braised Pork Belly Over Rice)

blue bowl of marbled tea eggs, with one sliced open, yolks showing

Marbled Tea Eggs

Overhead view of braised pork chops

Taiwanese Fried and Braised Pork Chops

Tuan Fan rolls on a white plate and peach colored surface

Fan Tuan (Taiwanese Stuffed Rice Roll)

Velveted chicken with mushrooms on top of Cantonese clay pot rice.

Cantonese Clay Pot Rice With Velveted Chicken and Mushrooms (北菇滑雞煲仔飯)

Chinese meatloaf on top of Cantonese clay pot rice.

Cantonese Clay Pot Rice With Chinese Meatloaf (肉餅煲仔飯)

Cantonese clay pot rice with Chinese sausage and greens.

How to Make Cantonese Clay Pot Rice (煲仔飯)

Tiger peppers on a serving platter with ground pork

Chinese Stir-Fried Tiger-Skin Peppers

OVerhead view of mochi

Homemade Yakimochi (Grilled Mochi With Soy Sauce and Nori)

Side view of pork chop sandwich

Macau Pork Chop Sandwich

Cheesefoam Bubble Tea in front of a orange backdrop

Cheese Foam Tea

Bowl of cold sesame noodles topped with cucumber, celery, and cilantro

Cold Sesame Noodles

lumpiang shanghai

Lumpiang Shanghai (Filipino Egg Rolls)

The three cup chicken in a white ceramic bowl.

Taiwanese Three Cup Chicken (San Bei Ji) Recipe

A bowl of jjajangmyeon with a thick and hearty black bean sauce on one side and fresh noodles on the other.

Jjajangmyeon (Korean Black Bean Noodles) Recipe

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Home-Style Tamagoyaki (Japanese Rolled Omelette)

Hands holding thin hand-pulled lamian noodles over floured counter.

Hand-Pulled Lamian Noodles Recipe

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