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Festive Dishes

9 recipes and 2 cooking guides. Plan festival menus with hot pot, zongzi, nian gao, tang yuan, mooncakes, steamed fish, and longevity noodles.

Chinese yin-yang hot pot with clear and red broths surrounded by meats, seafood, tofu and vegetablesFestive DishesChinese Hot Pot, A Complete GuideA festive Chinese round table with a whole fish, lacquered chicken, red-braised pork, dumplings, sweet rice and shared cold and vegetable dishesFestive DishesChinese Recipes for 2025 Holiday SeasonEight treasure sticky rice pudding with dried fruit, nuts, and red bean fillingFestive DishesEight Treasure Rice Pudding (Ba Bao Fan, 八宝饭)Longevity noodles finished with shiitake mushrooms, carrot, onion and Chinese chives in a light glossy sauceFestive DishesLongevity Noodles (Yi Mein/伊面)Cantonese lotus-paste mooncakes with salted egg yolkFestive DishesMooncakes, a Classic Recipe (广式月饼)A glossy dark-brown steamed nian gao studded with jujubes and walnuts, with one wedge cut to show its dense chewy interiorFestive DishesNian Gao (Chinese New Year Rice Cake, 年糕)White, lavender and pale green snow skin mooncakes with crisp floral patterns and one custard-filled cut pieceFestive DishesSnow Skin Mooncakes (冰皮月饼)Chinese steamed whole fish on an oval platter with moist flesh, fine scallion and ginger, seeded red chili, Sichuan peppercorns, and a shallow light-soy dressingFestive DishesSteamed Fish, the Chinese Way (清蒸鱼)White black-sesame tang yuan in clear ginger syrup, with one rice ball opened to show a glossy flowing black sesame center and an even chewy wrapperFestive DishesTang Yuan, Chinese glutinous rice balls (汤圆)Chinese New Year feast with whole fish, braised pork, dumplings, greens, noodles, and mandarinsFestive DishesTop 30 Chinese New Year RecipesLeaf-wrapped zongzi with one sweet red-date and bean-paste dumpling and one savoury pork-and-shiitake dumpling cut openFestive DishesZongzi: Chinese sticky rice dumpling (粽子)
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