Huat to the best Chinese New Year menus for reunion dinner and all your auspicious gatherings this season.
We say this every year, but how is it a new year again soon?! Well, at least there are Chinese New Year treats round the corner to distract us from how quickly the time has flown by. Yes, we’re talking about pineapple tarts, bakkwa, yusheng, and most of all, delectable Chinese New Year menus for reunion dinners and gatherings from top restaurants in Singapore.
Best Chinese New Year 2025 reunion dinner and festive menus
1. Yi by Jereme Leung
Ring in the Lunar New Year with elegance and tradition at Raffles Hotel Singapore’s Yi by Jereme Leung, where Chinese cuisine takes centre stage. The star of the season? The signature yu sheng (from $98 to $258), featuring chef Jereme Leung’s famous Yunnan rose petal sauce. Introduced in 2020, this delicately fragrant dressing has since earned its place as a crowd-pleaser, adding a floral touch to the classic toss.
Choose from four lavish set menus for your Chinese New Year reunion dinner: Prosperous ($198++ per pax), Abundance ($228++ per pax), Opulence ($258++ per pax), and a vegetarian option ($198++ per pax), all available from 6 January to 12 February 2025 (excluding 28 Jan 2025). Each menu showcases auspicious ingredients to usher in abundance and prosperity. Highlights include poached squid paired with arrowhead, black moss, ginger, and scallion sauce; as well as the steamed spotted garoupa with chicken essence, luffa melon, cured meat, and Shao Xing wine.
And what’s a celebration without desserts? Don’t miss traditional sweet treats like deep-fried nian gao with golden pumpkin and yam, deep-fried sesame glutinous rice ball, and steamed hawthorn cake to start the year on a sweet note.
Yi by Jereme Leung, #03-02, Raffles Arcade, 328 North Bridge Road, Singapore 188719
2. 5 ON 25
Take your festive gatherings up a notch by booking a private dining suite with a stunning skyline view. 5 ON 25 at Andaz Singapore offers private dining options with Emerald (seating up to 12 guests) and Ruby (for up to eight), alongside its main dining hall. This refined Cantonese restaurant offers six curated set lunch and dinner menus (from $98 per person) from 13 January to 12 February 2025.
Start the celebration by tossing up the signature yusheng with a vibrant medley of classic ingredients. Follow that up with must-tries like the signature mapo tofu and the classic Buddha Jumps Over The Wall. For a showstopper, order the flambéed claypot baked jasmine rice crowned with braised jade tiger abalone, Cantonese cured sausage, and Romanesco – and flambéed tableside, no less.
Love dim sum? Make it your choice for a celebratory CNY meal, we say. Book your table for the special dim sum lunch menu from 13 January to 12 February 2025. Look forward to delectable delights like scallop dumpling siew mai topped with No.1 Oscietra caviar (three pieces for $18), crispy taro fritters (three pieces for $12), and steamed barbecued pork buns (three pieces for $12). Add on the braised barley-fed beef short rib ($108), live catches like Australian spiny lobster and Dong Xing grouper, and unmissable desserts like the mandarin entremet ($16) to complete your meal. P.S. Save up to 15% with selected bank cards.
5 ON 25, Andaz Singapore, 5 Fraser Street, Singapore 189354
3. Parkroyal Collection Marina Bay, Singapore
Whether you’re searching for Asian favourites or international creations, you’ll thank us for putting Peppermint’s CNY buffet menu on your radar. Parkroyal Collection Marina Bay, Singapore’s farm-to-table buffet restaurant with halal-certified stations and kitchen, is pulling out all the stops with its prosperous spread (from $72++ per adult) from 3 January to 12 February 2025.
Begin your celebration with a DIY Prosperity yusheng featuring crunchy shredded carrots, radishes, and more blooms from the Urban Farm – a modern twist that’s equal parts tasty and sustainable. Keep the feast going with seafood highlights like grilled Dalian abalone, steamed rock lobster with old Chengu spicy sauce, and crispy sea cucumber and braised radish in golden collagen. Further along the buffet aisle, the black gold char siew black angus beef prime ribs with a smoky-sweet char siew glaze is a must-try.
For those celebrating on Lunar New Year’s Eve and Lunar New Year Day, Peppermint steps up the indulgence with exclusive festive dishes. Savour the mini Buddha Jumps Over The Wall, a luxurious broth packed with premium ingredients like abalone and sea cucumber. Seafood fans, tuck into the 12-year-old king garoupa, prepared two ways to showcase its delicate flavours; and don’t miss the grilled rock lobster drizzled in citrusy yuzu butter. That’s not all: more creations that symbolise prosperity and abundance await.
Parkroyal Collection Marina Bay, Singapore, 6 Raffles Boulevard, Singapore 039594
4. Wan Hao Chinese Restaurant
If you want a reunion dinner to remember, look no further than Wan Hao Chinese Restaurant for a modern twist on classics. The six and seven-course set menus (starting at $138.80++ per person; additional $10++ on CNY eve) have everything you need for a festive meal.
Think Cantonese classics such as stewed scampi prawns in a rich black truffle cheese sauce, wok-fried cod fish drizzled with tangy chilli plum sauce, succulent hairpin prawns paired with asparagus, and so much more.
What’s a CNY celebration without some lo hei action? Available in both the set and a la carte menus, Wan Hao’s Prosperity Yu Sheng ($288++ for large) is pure indulgence, featuring premium ingredients like rock lobster, Japanese Yellowtail, Hokkaido scallop, sturgeon caviar, and salmon roe.
Don’t forget the pen cai (from $528++ for five pax) – tuck into three variations (including a vegetarian option) of these treasure pots loaded with the good stuff: bird’s nest, South African abalone, sea cucumber, and more.
Wan Hao Chinese Restaurant, available from 26 December 2024 to 12 February 2025, Singapore Marriott Tang Plaza Hotel, 320 Orchard Road, Singapore 238865
5. Man Fu Yuan
Ring in the Year of the Snake with a feast fit for royals. Award-winning Cantonese restaurant, Man Fu Yuan, promises a fine dining feast unlike no other. Start with the 60-inch Blazing Snake Fortune Yu Sheng ($988++, serves up to 10), it features eight snakes that form part of the Chinese character ‘fú’ (fortune), embodying blessings for the new year which includes ‘píng ān’ (peace), ‘xǐ lè’ (joy), ‘jiàn kāng’ (health), ‘fán róng’ (prosperity), ‘hé mù’ (harmony), ‘cái fù’ (wealth), ‘guì rén’ (support), and ‘jí xiáng’ (good fortune). Lavishly crafted with abalone, rock lobster, salmon sashimi, and golden Wafu dressing with grilled eel ‘snakes’, it promises an auspicious start to the year.
Move on to premium delights like the showstopping roasted suckling pig with five-grain glutinous rice ($538++) or the signature Applewood Smoked Irish Duck ($138++). Don’t skip the a la carte classics like the braised whole sea cucumber stuffed with minced pork and prawn ($108++).
Take the celebration home with the signature Abundance Treasure Pot ($538) or the wildly popular Baked Purple Sweet Potato Nian Gao Tart with five-element tea ($49.80, serves eight). Crafted with buttery perfection, it’s topped with edible gold for that extra festive flair.
Perk alert: Use the promo code “HCMFY20″ for a 20% discount on takeaways (valid from 15 Dec 2024 to 10 February 2025). T&Cs apply.
Man Fu Yuan, available from 6 January to 16 February 2025 for dining; 15 December 2024 to 10 February 2025 for takeaway orders; InterContinental Singapore, 80 Middle Road, Singapore 188966
6. Xin Cuisine Chinese Restaurant
Ring in the Lunar New Year with a feast to remember at Xin Cuisine Chinese Restaurant. Led by master chefs with over 30 years of experience, Xin Cuisine serves a spectacular array of Cantonese delights perfect for your reunion dinner. Indulge in the banquet menu, now at a 10% discount, starting from $768++ for a party of six.
Highlights include the signature vegetarian salmon yu sheng, prosperity platter with roast pork and duck, braised dice abalone with shredded fish maw, and steamed marble goby in Hong Kong style (with lovely aromatics). Prefer à la carte dishes? Relish classics like the braised pig trotter with black moss or the crispy roast pork with mustard dip. And don’t miss new creations like the deep-fried black pork ribs. Save the date from 3 January 2025 for a taste of Xin Cuisine’s festive menus.
Xin Cuisine Chinese Restaurant, available from 3 Jan 2025 to 24 Feb 2025; Holiday Inn Singapore Atrium, 317 Outram Road, Singapore 169075
7. Lime Restaurant at Parkroyal Collection Pickering
Parkroyal Collection Pickering welcomes the Lunar New Year with resplendent feasts at Lime Restaurant. Book a table for Feasts of Fortune (from $78 per adult) from 15 to 28 January 2025 and 3 to 12 February 2025. This lavish spread showcases delights like braised Shanghainese pork belly with baby abalone, roast angelica duck, and wok-fried lala clams in Chinese wine collagen broth. Plus, peep the grill for smokey bites like king prawn skewers and Iberico pork ribs.
Did we mention that guests can enjoy unlimited servings of house wines, beers and cocktails on weekends from 3pm to 5pm? Clink to the season with this bottomless lineup – and complete the celebration with the add-on Prosperity smoked salmon yusheng ($58 for small, $78 for large).
Visit from 28 January (dinner) to 2 February 2025 for the Joyful Reunions menu (from $108 per adult). Kickstart your feast with the complimentary Prosperity smoked salmon yu sheng, before you move on to a lavish selection of fresh seafood like Boston lobster, uni sushi, Chinese-style rock lobster with glass noodles, as well as other delectable fare. End on a sweet note with desserts like the fried durian roll, and red bean soup with tang yuan.
Lime Restaurant at Parkroyal Collection Pickering, 3 Upper Pickering Street, Singapore 058289
8. Tien Court
Usher in the Year of the Snake with auspicious Teochew delicacies at Copthorne King’s Hotel Singapore. Helmed by master chef Lui Wing Keung, Tien Court offers five Chinese New Year set menus for your reunion dinner gatherings.
For smaller groups, the Sweet Happiness set menu ($568++ per table for four pax) features Prosperity smoked salmon yusheng, South African 6-head abalone, Teochew braised sliced Irish Silver Hill duck, and mango sago pomelo. Meanwhile, the Spring Blossom set menu (from $1,388++ per table for eight pax) treats you to steamed soon hock, roasted chicken, stir-fried local lobster with XO sauce and more.
A vegetarian set menu ($138++ per pax) is also available for plant-based friends, with vegetarian yusheng, stewed ee fu noodles with mushrooms, and stir-fried mock prawns. Alternatively, order off the a la carte menu to feast on Teochew Golden Fortune roasted suckling pig and the signature braised white teat sea cucumber in oyster sauce.
P.S. pre-book any CNY set menu from 1 to 31 December 2024 to enjoy an early bird discount of 20% off!
Tien Court, available from 10 January to 12 February 2025; Level 2, Copthorne King’s Hotel Singapore, 403 Havelock Road, Singapore 169632
9. The Capitol Kempinski Hotel Singapore
Ring in Lunar New Year 2025 with 15 Stamford Restaurant or Atelier’s curated set menus at The Capitol Kempinski Hotel Singapore. From 6 January to 12 February 2025, opt for the four-course ($118++ per person) or six-course set ($168++ per person) for elevated festive dishes like glazed pork rib with tangerine peel, sour plum, and hawthorn; and glutinous rice with eight-head abalone, wax meat, and bamboo leaf.
If cocktails are on the cards, The Bar at 15 Stamford is shaking up two Lunar New Year-inspired creations for your festive toast. Clink to prosperity with Mandarin Sour ($24++) is a zesty ode to abundance, while The Gin Seol ($24++) dazzles with its refreshing, pear-forward notes.
Perk alert: Enjoy up to 15% off all festive items (excluding the Lunar New Year Prosperity hamper and set menu) from now till 12 February 2025.
The Capitol Kempinski Hotel, 15 Stamford Road, Singapore 178906
10. Soup Restaurant
CNY or not, we’ll say yes to Soup Restaurant’s Samsui Ginger Chicken any day. Pleasingly, this fan favourite is on the festive set menu for the eve of CNY, alongside other highlights like seafood crab meat pumpkin soup, collagen fish maw soup, truffle abalone seafood pot, and snow pear with tangerine dessert.
Take the stress out of ordering by opting for reunion set menus, available on 28 January 2025. We like how the restaurant has options for CNY gatherings of any size, ranging from two pax all the way to 10 pax. Peep the menu to pick your fancy: the Joyous set starts from $128 for two to $668 for 10, while the Abundance set starts from $178 for two to $828 for 10.
Soup Restaurant, multiple locations including Paragon, Jewel Changi, and VivoCity
11. Sinpopo Tangs Restaurant
You might know Sinpopo as a well-loved cafe for bakes and brews, but did you know it has a restaurant too? If nostalgic local flavours are what you’re after, pop by for your Chinese New Year dinner or gatherings from 17 January to 12 February 2025. The restaurant has three set menus: Abundance ($78++ per pax), Fortune ($68++ per pax), and Prosperity ($48++ per pax).
Each course menu starts with the signature Sinpopo Lo Hei Platter for a celebratory toss. Ingredients like fresh salmon, pink pomelo, grilled jackfruit, and fresh jambu are all brought together with a tangy fortune plum dressing and topped with hae bi hiam cashews for a savoury crunch.
As for the main dishes, expect creations that celebrate the rich flavours of Singapore’s heritage cuisine. Picture the likes of chilli fish with fragrant hae bi hiam chilli, Nyona chap chye, babi pongteh, Hainanese chicken curry and more to complete your feast.
Sinpopo Tangs Restaurant, #02-22/27/29, Tang Plaza, 310 Orchard Road, Singapore 238864
12. Chopsuey Cafe
Make your way to Dempsey for Chopsuey Cafe’s Joyous Reunion set menu ($138++ per person), alongside an array of a la carte offerings. Start with the signature Lucky Lunar ‘Lo Hei’ for a dose of festive cheer. Available in small ($68), medium ($88), and large ($128) portions, this vibrant classic features a medley of fresh pomegranate, pomelo, and blueberries, sprinkled with toasted peanut crust and white sesame, and topped with extra virgin olive oil and sweet plum sauce.
Mains include the sumptuous lobster fried rice ($42), sizzling steamed whole fish ($112) made with the catch of the day, as well as plant-based creations like hot honey soy crispy eggplant ($12) and Szechuan pepper chilli cauliflower tofu ($21). To end on a sweet note, cap off your meal with a slice of golden pineapple tart ($18) and sip on the boozy Golden Prosperity Punch ($20).
Chopsuey Cafe, #01-23, 10 Dempsey Road, Singapore 247700
13. Moxie
Experience Serpent’s Charm ($20) at Moxie with this concoction of St Remy Vsop, peach schnapps, watermelon, lime, mint and cayenne pepper to start your CNY with a festive toast.
After clinking glasses, toss up the MX yu sheng platter ($88) to get the party going. Savoury specials include the likes of prawn toast ($23) with yuzu ailo; and crackling pork belly ($38) with mandarin orange compote, fried vermicelli, and ginger plum sauce. Cap off with the orange madeleines ($15) for a sweet finish.
Moxie, Level 1, 2 College Road, Singapore 169850
14. Jumbo Seafood
This popular restaurant is rolling out a range of a la carte and set menu delights for the season. If a seafood feast is what you’re after for your Chinese New Year reunion dinner, Jumbo Seafood is where it’s at. Chef’s specials include fried king prawns ($18 per piece), whole 4-head abalone braised with seasonal vegetables ($42), and stir-fried claims in kum hiong style (from $28 to $56).
Of course, you can’t miss the Prosperity yu sheng (from $48 to $98) for a lucky toss with a medley of vegetables and fresh slices of salmon, topped with preserved kumquat, fried sweet potato crisps, juicy pomelo and more. Book ahead for the Reunion Sets for 28 January 2024 or the Celebration Sets from 13 January to 16 February 2025 (both sets from $388 for four pax) , where you’ll get to dig into delights like lobster with steamed glass vermicelli and minced garlic after your yusheng toss.
Jumbo Seafood, multiple locations including Ion Orchard, Jewel Changi, and East Coast Food Centre
15. Blue Lotus
If you like smoked salmon on your yusheng, Blue Lotus is the place to be – and you can even book a private dining hall to enjoy an intimate gathering. Order its Happiness set menu ($88++ per pax, minimum four pax) or Prosperity set menu ($108++ per pax, minimum four pax) from 13 January to 12 February 2025, and begin the festivities by tossing up the signature Norwegian smoked salmon yusheng for all the blessings.
Other auspicious highlights include braised marble goby fish with beancurd skin and roasted pork belly, lotus leaf abalone rice with Chinese sausage and dried shrimp, and more. Those skipping the meat can look forward to the meat-free dishes like wok-fried asparagus with Chinese yam, wild mushrooms, and cashew nuts; as well as seasonal veggies with black truffle and beancurd on the vegetarian menu ($68++ per pax).
Blue Lotus, Quayside Isle, 31 Ocean Way, Singapore 098375
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