Special menus and gifts from top Chinese restaurants this Lunar New Year

At Red Lantern in Solaire Entertainment City, guests can enjoy a premier à la carte menu, dim sum buffet, and set menu, all crafted to delight the senses. Begin your meal with the yu sheng prosperity toss before digging into steamed Boston lobster, stir-fried Wagyu beef, steamed live grouper, roasted whole suckling pig, and sliced Peking duck. Their premium dim sum selection, including crystal skin lobster dumplings and deep-fried cheese and prawn spring rolls, will add an indulgent touch to your festivities!

If you are looking to gift friends and family for Chinese New Year check out Solaire Entertainment City’s gift hampers which are filled with a range of treats like baked mango biscuits, tangerine peel five grains, premium red wine, God of wealth-shaped tikoy, Chinese yam oatmeal, bird’s nest sugar rock, and ready-to-eat black truffle abalone. The hampers come in three tiered options: Fortune Delights, Tastes of Fortune, and the Grand Fortune Box.

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For those in the North, visit Solaire Resort North for even more Chinese New Year specials. Here, Red Lantern presents what they call the Lucky Lunar Feast, a dining experience that comprises two splendid set menus with phoenix chicken, teow chew-style cod fish, dried oyster, and suckling pig with Prunier caviar available until February 2. You will also be able to order a beautiful array of expertly made dim sum including truffle shrimp dumplings and abalone siu mai which will be available through Red Lantern’s eat-all-you-can  Prosperity Feast. 

For gift ideas, try out their Lunar Fortune boxes that are packed with symbolic foods such as a God of wealth-shaped
tikoy, bird's nest sugar rock, black truffle abalone, and kwei chow mou tai.

Contact +632 8888 8888 or email reservations@solaireresort.com (Entertainment City) or sn.reservations@solaireresort.com (North)

Usher in the Year of the Wood Snake at New World Makati at Jasmine for a decadent Chinese feast. From January 28 to 29, diners can indulge in Jasmine’s special all-you-can-eat dim sum menu. This offering also includes a special main dish, making it a great way to gather with loved ones and celebrate. 

For those seeking a more refined dining experience, Jasmine also offers chef’s recommendations and set menus for a group of ten, which is even accompanied by a beautifully packaged nian gao box. Here, you can indulge in braised abalone mushrooms with dried oyster and broccoli, golden pumpkin seafood broth, fried rice with preserved meat and asparagus, and a dessert of warm taro cream with glutinous rice balls. 

For gifting options opt for nian gao sets featuring their traditional classic variants plus something new with their green tea and rose prosperity harmony two-layered nian gao. Or, try some delightful cakes that will add even more cheer to your Chinese New Year meals. The mandarin orange mousse cake, or longevity mandarin orange fruit cake, will make great additions to your spread. For a more opulent gift, the Luxe Box combines the mandarin orange mousse cake with Chinese-inspired cupcakes and a bottle of red or white wine.

Contact +632 8811 6888 

Crystal Dragon at City of Dreams has a delicious festive à la carte menu, available until February 12, featuring a traditional prosperity toss salad, which can be made even more special by opting for the prosperity abalone yee sang which is good for three to four persons. While there be sure to try their other Chinese New Year auspicious specialities like Buddha Jumps Over the Wall in rich golden broth, the poached yellow skin chicken with Chinese spices and Szechuan pepper oil, or their steamed live sea grouper in homemade spicy choi hiong sauce. Crystal Dragon’s live green lobster in two flavours (golden garlic or crispy salted egg) is another must-try item. Their braised eight treasure lo han vegetable in a golden nest, and wok-fried yam rice with braised pork trotter, or roasted duck and crispy pork are dishes that will surely put a smile on all your guests' faces. For something sweet, order their deep-fried three-layer salted egg yolk nian gao, or chilled peach jelly. 

Red Ginger’s special Chinese New Year menus will be available daily until January 31. The unique à la carte menu includes a prosperity salmon curry puff, salmon and vegetable curry, and a hard-boiled egg enclosed in a homemade puff pastry to name a few. Their longevity crispy noodles with seafood and gravy or wealthy braised pork belly creation filled with with Asian spices, with bok choy, quail eggs, and braised tofu are other must-try items. Take a bite out of their lucky golden crispy chicken that comes with sweet chilli sauce and chips, and lastly, treat yourself to some fortune nian gao served with vanilla ice cream and a fortune cookie.

Contact +632 8800 8080 or e-mail guestservices@cod-manila.com

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Conrad’s Lunar New Year celebrations at China Blue by Jereme Leung offer regal culinary feasts with specially curated set menus, available for dine-in and takeaway, available until February 1. 

Set A (good for 10 persons) features fried boneless chicken with lemongrass sour cream and pineapple cucumber, steamed king prawn with black bean, assorted mushroom, and Chinese chive sauce, braised 10-head abalone, dried oyster money bags with mushroom and black garlic sea moss sauce, and chilled prosperous New Year snow bird’s nest almond ice cream with strawberry jello.

Set B (also good for 10 persons) will treat you to roasted sesame duck with wild black pepper barbecue sauce, braised sliced abalone, dry oyster money bags with fish lips, crab roe, crispy dry scallop sauce, sautéed US premium beef and beef tendon with black olive mushroom and ginger sauce, and chilled prosperous New Year snow bird’s nest almond ice cream with strawberry jello.

For gift options try out China Blue’s nian gao set that comes in elegantly designed boxes with an assortment of beautifully crafted cakes including white coconut cream, traditional salted caramel brown sugar, and dalandan-flavoured small ingots.

Contact +632 8833 9999 or email conradmanila@conradhotels.com

Xiù Fine Cantonese Dining in San Juan has prepared several Chinese New Year treats for us this year. Bring your family and friends and sink your teeth into their festive feasts. Set A is enough for a group of six and includes a range of delicate dim sum, wintermelon soup with crab and scallop, to steamed tiger prawns, braised fish maw and sea cucumber with meatballs, steamed lapu-lapu with taoso, braised pork belly with muy choi, roast duck, fried rice, and a sweet hot taro soup too. 

Set B is more sumptuous but still perfect for a group of 6. Here you will be able to appreciate their honey-glazed char siu, shrimp wanton soup with crispy rice, tao yam puff with seafood, seafood clay pot, steamed lapu-lapu with spring onion, roast duck, steamed crab with glutinous rice, wok-fried noodles with sea cucumber in abalone sauce and black sesame balls for a sweet finisher. 

Contact +632 8650 7189

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East Ocean Palace is known to be a hot spot for merry gatherings, with grand halls and large private rooms that are perfect for groups. This Lunar New Year they are ready to cook up a storm to welcome abundance, luck, wealth and prosperity too. 

Set A starts you off with half of a crispy roasted suckling pig, steamed Boston lobster, Japanese mushroom with Australian abalone, steamed live grouper, half roast goose, deep-fried scallop taro puff and steamed crabs with garlic, plus more. 

Set B is for those looking for something more opulent. Here you can partake in a whole roasted baby suckling pig, chilled Alaskan king crabs, double-boiled abalone conpoy soup, braised sea cucumber in abalone sauce, steamed live red grouper, US scallops and shrimp ball with crab, and roasted baby pigeon. 

Both sets are good for 10 persons and come with dessert and pastries. 

Contact +632 8826 4503

At Lung Hin at Marco Polo Ortigas, dine with at least 10 people to fully relish all their delectable Chinese New Year creations. The Kung Hei Fat Choi set will serve roasted barbecue pork and pork belly, wok-friend prawn with black truffle, steamed shrimp with garlic and enoki mushroom, braised pork knuckle with sea moss, baked chicken with Himalayan salt, stewed eggplant with minced pork and salted fish in a clay pot, fried rice, plus chef’s daily dessert special. 

Their Goodluck Year set is a sumptuous spread consisting of a prosperity toss, roasted shredded duck soup, grouper fillet with black fungus, wok-fried duck breast, sautéed US beef with foie gras, wok-fried lamb, braised tofu with wild mushrooms, wok-fried Hong Kong noodles and a season fruit platter. 

Lung Hin even has cheerful nian gao gift sets that will make thoughtful surprises this Lunar New Year.

Contact +632 7720 7777

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Celebrate the Year of the Snake with Hua Yuan’s range of delicious festive dining experiences that are available until February 10. For those who spend a minimum of PhP 30,000, they'll get a chance to spin their Lunar Wheel of Fortune, a promotion designed to enhance the Chinese New Year fun with an array of prizes (which will run until February 2). Prizes range from discounts to F&B credits, premium culinary experiences, and more. 

Indulge in the restaurant’s special Chinese New Year à la carte dishes and elegant set menus too, such as The Prosperity set featuring a barbecue combination platter, tea-smoked half duck, and simmered black grouper with kaofu. For something more decadent try the Grand Fortune set which has premium dishes like whole Peking duck, Szechuan black grouper, and a luxurious Chinese New Year poon choi. Guests can also partake in some yee sang, curry crab, and decadent black sesame ice cream with coconut jelly. Guests seeking the perfect gift can choose from Hilton Manila’s bespoke Lunar New Year hampers, each thoughtfully curated to bring prosperity and joy.

Contact +632 7 239 7788 

Spend Chinese New Year at Mott 32 in Cebu and treat yourself to a toothsome set menu made just for the occasion. Start off with wok-friend golden oysters with prawn crackers, roasted lamb belly, and wok-fried tiger prawns. Then prepare to bite into stir-fried lobster with rainbow quinoa, barbecue pork ribs with pineapple-honey sauce, and stir-fried crispy chicken with glutinous rice. It's not over–a whole leopard grouper with rice cakes, and bamboo fungus dumplings are yet to come! The menu concludes with sweet treats to boot. 

Contact +63 32 520 4468

In honour of the Year of the Snake, The Peninsula Boutique is flying in Chinese New Year red date with ginger juice pudding, especially from Hong Kong. The Chinese New Year pudding symbolises success and prosperity and is an ideal gift for the season. At the boutique, you can also purchase lucky Lunar New Year chocolate trees as auspicious gifts for family and friends too. Edible to the core, pastry chef Annalyn

Solano’s Chinese New Year-themed trees (a mandarin orange tree and a golden fortune money tree) totally made by hand. The “soil”, trunk, branches, leaves, and fruit, plus the goldfish-embossed gold coins of the golden fortune money tree are all fashioned from chocolate. The mandarin orange fruits are filled with an intense mandarin-flavoured ganache while the gold-dusted coins embossed with lucky goldfish are made using dark chocolate.

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