Roast duck lettuce wraps. Photo: Xiaomei Chen
Five favourite Chinese New Year dishes and how to make them
- From roast duck in lettuce wraps to clams with black bean sauce, here are some classic dishes for the festival
- We have included recipes for each dish so you can try them at home
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Asian recipes
Roast duck lettuce wraps. Photo: Xiaomei Chen
Gold-ingot-shaped pastries filled with custard at 10 Shanghai restaurant in Causeway Bay, Hong Kong. Photo: Nora Tam
Chinese New Year: auspicious dishes around China, from ‘accessible windfall’ to ‘a room of gold and silver’
- The biggest festival in the Chinese calendar is a time of extravagant meals whose names are homophones for things that bring you luck
- We visit three Hong Kong restaurants serving new year dishes from Shanghai, Beijing and Sichuan, and hear from their homesick chefs
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Lunar New Year
Gold-ingot-shaped pastries filled with custard at 10 Shanghai restaurant in Causeway Bay, Hong Kong. Photo: Nora Tam