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Chinese New Year is coming, and that means looking forward to all the good food, starting with the annual reunion dinner! Don’t want to cook, no time to prepare or just want to dine at a nice restaurant while you connect with your loved ones? We’ve compiled this list of the best restaurant menus to have for your CNY dinners, reunion or not!
Putien
- Best overall restaurant for Chinese New Year reunion dinner
- Set menus from SGD $188.00
- Available from 1st January - 9th February 2020
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Whether you’re on a budget or want a luxurious feast, Putien makes sure to offer a selection of menus that covers from small to big families. Their starter menu for two already includes a wide variety of mouthwatering dishes such as Salmon Yu Sheng and the luxurious Cordyceps Flower with Sea Cucumber and Fish Maw Soup.
In the menu also consists of Yellow Croaker fish, Longevity Noodles, Abalone with Broccoli as well as White Fungus with Longan and Lotus soup. Of course, if you upgrade to a bigger the menu, you’ll get other dishes like Prosperity Prawns along with Sweet and Sour Pork with Lychees.
Location: Various branches available throughout Singapore
Contact: Putien's Official Website
Peach Garden
- Best restaurant for lunch reunions
- Set menus from SGD $109.00 per person
- Available from 8th January - 8th February 2020
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Aside from dinners, Peach Garden also offers their promotional CNY menu for reunion lunches. Have your pick from the many menu set choices which differ in whichever branches you prefer. Their menu consists of the likes of Salmon Yu Sheng, Fish Maw Soup, King Prawn, Birds Nest soup and many more.
Location: Various branches available throughout Singapore
Contact: Peach Garden's Official Website
Orange Clove Catering
- Best for Chinese New Year catering
- Set menus from SGD $15.00 per person (min. 30 pax)
- Available from 11th January - 9th February 2020
If you’re got a whole street or an organisation to feed, buffets are the way to go. Starting from a menu at $15 per person, Orange Clove offers 10 CNY menus ranging from 9 to 11 courses. Their most popular menu is the Jubilant Seasons menu, which has dishes like seafood, pastries, deep-fried platter and dessert. Did we mention that their menus are Halal too?
Location: 1 Kaki Bukit Road 1 #05-03/04 Enterprise One, Singapore 415934
Contact: +65 6515 0991 | [email protected]
Dian Xiao Er
- Best restaurant with Chinese New Year delivery menu
- Set menus from SGD $147.66
- Available from 3rd January - 9th February 2020
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Take-away is still possible when you get your menu bundle from Dian Xiao Er. Available for self-collection, their starter menu consists of the likes of Salmon Yu Sheng, the restaurant’s signature Herbal Roast Duck, seafood fish maw soup and dried oysters with braised bamboo shoots.
Do note that on the 24th January, only the herbal roast duck, Yu Sheng, Dong Po pork as well as braised mushroom and sea cucumber is available for take-away. So pre-order fast before they run out!
Location: Various branches available throughout Singapore
Contact: Dian Xiao Er's Official Website
Soup Restaurant
- Best restaurant with traditional Chinese New Year menu
- Average SGD $15.00 - $45.00 per dish
- Available until 9th February 2020
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Sometimes, simplicity is the best as it offers the good ol’ traditional, home-cooked style food. Soup Restaurant has just that, offering simple albeit delicious dishes such as a Pen Cai (Treasure pot) that’s filled with prawns, fish maw, sea cucumber, scallop and more. Their other CNY specials include baby Abalone Yu Sheng, Osthmantus Jelly dessert, traditional steamed rice with mushroom, broccoli with scallops and the restaurant’s infamous signature Samsui Ginger Chicken.
Location: Various branches available throughout Singapore
Contact: Soup Restaurant's Official Website
Home of Seafood
- Best Halal restaurant for Chinese New Year
- Set menus from SGD $238.00
- Available from 11th January - 8th February 2020
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Looking for a Halal restaurant to dine at during Chinese New Year can be difficult. Well, you can rest easy when you dine at Home of Seafood. The name already implies what you’ll get to dine on for Chinese New Year: fresh, luxurious seafood!
With 7 CNY menus to choose from, you’d get to feast on Chinese delicacies like Shark Fin Soup, the restaurant’s award-winning chilli crab, several types of fishes and a complimentary Abalone Yu Sheng.
Location: 1 Joo Chiat Pl, Singapore 427739
Contact: +65 6442 5180
The Square at Novotel Clarke Quay
- Best restaurant for Chinese New Year buffet
- Set menus from SGD $48.00 per person (adult)
- Available from 8th January - 8th February 2020
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So hungry that you could eat a horse? Enjoy a prosperous Lunar New Year lunch or dinner when you dine at Novotel Hotel’s The Square restaurant.
Serving a generous buffet spread that consists of from appetizer to dessert, enjoy dishes such as seafood on ice, roasted meat and poultry, assorted sushi and sashimi, and even the restaurant’s signature chilli crab which is only available at dinner. You can also add on Yu Sheng, with 20% discount off when you dine in.
Not forgetting to mention, the hotel also offers a "No Pork, No Lard" CNY menu. Now everyone can enjoy the feast too!
Location: 177A, River Valley Rd, Singapore, 179031
Contact: +65 6433 8790 | [email protected]
Living Menu
- Best Chinese New Year mini buffet service
- Set menus from SGD $15.00 per person (min 15 pax)
- Available until 9th February 2020
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Thank goodness for mini buffets, as we can have our very own private party without inviting the whole city. Also known for their classic buffets ranging from Eastern to Western cuisine, Living Menu is offering 6 special CNY mini buffet menus that serve a total of 8, 9 or 11 courses. Their menu consists of Chinese-style seafood, poultry, rice or noodles, sides and dessert dishes.
Location: Tannery House, 37 Tannery Lane, #06-02, Singapore, 347790
Contact: [email protected] (enquiry) | [email protected] (customer service)
Yan Restaurant
- Best Chinese New Year menu with Treasure Pot
- Set menus from SGD $98.00 per person
- Until 9th February 2020
Pen Cai, Poon Choi, or Treasure Pot (basin dish), is a traditional Cantonese dish which originally symbolises unity. Today, it is a popular CNY dish that commonly consists of all the necessary delicacies which carry auspicious meanings to make your Lunar New Year as fulfilling as possible.
So, where is the best place to have this dish as authentic as possible? Traditional Cantonese Yan Restaurant offers its treasure pot in a simple yet luxurious presentation that carries 18 different kinds of ingredients to feed up to 10 people. The dish contains must-eat ingredients for CNY, such as fishes, fish maw, abalone, sea cucumber, roast pork and even sea moss. And every ingredient is carefully prepared by being simmered with braised duck gravy.
While you're at the restaurant, why not try their signature roast suckling pig or their house special caramelised pork?
Location: 05-02 National Gallery Singapore, 1 St. Andrew's Road Singapore, 178957
Contact: +65 6384 5585 | [email protected]