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Rosheen Kaul's claypot rice with chicken and choy sum. Styled by Lee Blaylock.

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Giddy up! 20 brilliant recipes for your very own lucky Lunar New Year banquet

Happy Year of the Horse! Rosheen Kaul, RecipeTin Eats, Adam Liaw and more help you celebrate LNY with mix-and-match Asian-style recipes from the simple to the showstopping.

22 recipes
Toss the salad together for good luck.

Chinese New Year good luck salad (yee sang) recipe

  • < 30 mins
  • Kylie Kwong
Claypot rice with chicken and choy sum.

Rosheen Kaul's claypot rice

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Rosheen Kaul
RecipeTin Eats’ Chinese-style chicken and corn soup.
EASY

RecipeTin Eats’ Chinese chicken and corn soup

  • < 30 mins
  • RecipeTin Eats
Serve the steamed dumplings with chilli oil and chopped chives.

Siu mai (steamed pork and prawn dumplings)

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Tony Tan
RecipeTin Eats’ special fried rice.
EASY

RecipeTin Eats’ special fried rice

  • < 30 mins
  • RecipeTin Eats
Kylie Kwong's everyday fried rice.
EASY

Kylie Kwong's everyday fried rice recipe

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Kylie Kwong
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These sweet, sticky sesame rice balls often roll around on yum cha trolleys.

Helen Goh's jian dui (crispy sesame balls)

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Helen Goh
RecipeTin Eats’ lemon chicken.

RecipeTin Eats’ twice-fried lemon chicken

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • RecipeTin Eats
Symbolic steamed snapper.

Steamed whole fish with soy, ginger and spring onion recipe

  • < 30 mins
  • Andrew McConnell
Kylie Kwong's spanner crab and ginger dumplings with chilli oil and Sichuan pepper and salt.

Spanner crab and ginger dumplings with Sichuan chilli oil recipe

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Kylie Kwong
Silky, mouth-watering, delectable, clean-tasting wontons.

Prawn wontons with spring onion, ginger and vinegar dressing recipe

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Kylie Kwong
Dragon and phoenix longevity noodles.

Dragon and phoenix longevity noodles

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Adam Liaw
Chinese broccoli with oyster sauce.
EASY

RecipeTin Eats’ restaurant-style Chinese broccoli with oyster sauce

  • < 30 mins
  • RecipeTin Eats
Green bean omelette.
EASY

Green bean omelette

  • < 30 mins
  • Rosheen Kaul
The secret to a great stir-fry is frying the noodles, not stewing them.
EASY

Adam Liaw’s ultimate Singapore noodles

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
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Pork rib and prawn noodle soup.

Hokkien hae mee (pork and prawn noodle soup)

  • 2 hrs +
  • Rosheen Kaul
Rosheen Kaul’s cold vinegar noodles.
EASY

Sichuan cold noodles (liang mian) with homemade chilli oil

  • < 30 mins
  • Rosheen Kaul
RecipeTin Eats’ sizzling Mongolian beef.
EASY

RecipeTin Eats’ sizzling Mongolian beef stir-fry

  • 1-2 hrs
  • RecipeTin Eats
RecipeTin Eats’ Chinese honey pepper chicken stir-fry.
EASY

RecipeTin Eats’ sticky honey pepper chicken

  • < 30 mins
  • RecipeTin Eats
This herb-strewn chicken and noodle salad is perfect in hot weather.
EASY

‘Ghost chicken’ noodle salad

  • < 30 mins
  • Rosheen Kaul
Chilli oil-dressed cucumbers.
EASY

Adam Liaw’s chilli oil-dressed cucumbers

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Adam Liaw
Adam Liaw’s sweet and sour pork.
EASY

Adam Liaw’s sweet and sour pork

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw