Looking for restaurants for celebrating Chinese New Year with your lovers? We’ve compiled a list of some of the top restaurant in the city.
MARCO POLO HOTELS
Marco Polo Hotels – Hong Kong presents traditional pudding offerings to usher in the Year of the Rabbit. Guests can enjoy three classic flavours, including Chinese Turnip Cake with Conpoy, Coconut Pudding with Gold Leaf and Water Chestnut Cake, as well as the hotel’s homemade XO Chilli Sauce. These festive puddings are available for redemption from 1 to 21 January 2023. Guests who purchase on or before 8 January 2023 can enjoy an early-bird special offer of HK$188 per box.
A delicious and auspicious way to welcome Chinese New Year, the traditional puddings are handcrafted by Marco Polo Hotels – Hong Kong’s chefs using only the finest ingredients. Guests can savour an authentic taste of the New Year with the Chinese Turnip Cake with Conpoy made with Chinese sausage, Jinhua ham, dried shrimp and conpoy. Meanwhile those with a sweet tooth should try the traditional Coconut Pudding with Gold Leaf. This sweet and sticky pudding is made with glutinous rice, coconut milk and brown sugar and is decorated festively with edible gold foil for added extravagance. Also not to be missed is the Water Chestnut Cake, which boasts a fresh and light sweetness complemented by crunchy pieces of water chestnuts.
All puddings are packed in elegant boxes adorned with an iridescent rabbit design, which carries the auspicious meaning of “taking a leap forward” into the New Year. The festive puddings are both ideal to enjoy at home or to share as gifts with family, friends and colleagues. The three traditional puddings and homemade XO Chilli Sauce are each priced at HK$238 and can be purchased at Cafe Marco or via our online store from now until 19 January 2023.
ROSEWOOD HONG KONG
This Chinese New Year, Rosewood Hong Kong rings in the Year of the Rabbit with an invitation for guests to embark on an extravagant culinary journey, including celebration menus at multiple dining destinations, including Holt’s Café and the acclaimed Cantonese restaurant The Legacy House, as well as indulgent treats and gifts from traditional Turnip Cakes and Chinese New Year puddings to specially curated candy boxes and sumptuous gift hampers.
Rosewood Hong Kong “Hop into the New Year” collection
Executive Chinese Chef Li Chi-wai has curated a wide selection of Chinese New Year treats for gifting to clients and friends or to enjoy at family gatherings, including candy boxes, Chinese New Year hampers, Turnip Cake, Chinese New Year puddings and patisserie.
The “Hop Into the New Year” Chinese New Year collection is now available for online pre-order, with delicious interpretations of the traditional delicacies including Turnip Cake from HKD298, for pick-up and delivery from 13 to 26 January, 2023, and Chinese New Year Pudding from HKD298, for pick-up and delivery between 9 and 26 January, 2023. To spread the happiness with friends and families, Rosewood Hong Kong has curated three festive hampers ‘Joy’ (HKD2,288), ‘Prosperity’ (HKD3,388) and ‘Longevity’(HKD9,988). The hampers are filled with Chinese New Year Pudding and The Legacy House XO sauce, Chinese tea, premium dried seafood, Rosewood signature egg rolls, palmier, chocolate bars and Rosewood red packets.
DUDDELL’S
Located in the heart of Central, Hong Kong on Duddell’s Street, JIA Group’s one MICHELIN-starred Duddell’s serves authentic Cantonese cuisine within a beautiful art space. Duddell’s continues to innovate modern Cantonese fine dining with new menus for Chinese New Year, including limited edition Chinese New Year puddings, gift sets and hampers, as well as Chinese New Year dim sum specials, set menus and takeaway Poon Choi.
Duddells Chinese New Year Dim Sum and New Dishes Offering
At Duddell’s to celebrate the Chinese New Year of the Rabbit, Executive Chef Yip Kar On introduces a series of new limited-time menus available between 11th January – 5th February 2023.
The new Chinese New Year Dim Sum lunch selection consists of delicately crafted bites such as goldfish-shaped Shrimp Dumpling with Mullet Roe (HK$108), Truffle Bamboo Pith Dumplings (HK$78) and Pork and Shrimp Dumpling (HK$108) with semi-dried oyster and beef tongue. Available for both lunch and dinner are Crispy Lava Sesame Ball (HK$78) and Pan-fried New Year Cake (HK$68).
Serving all day long, 7 new Chinese New Year a la carte dish specials not to miss include auspicious Canton delicacies such as Double-Boiled Chicken Soup (HK$468) served with fish maw, ginseng and dendrobium, Sauteed Lobster (HK$1,088) with Chinese celery and water chestnut, Fried Glutinous Rice (HK$468) with preserved Chinese meat and sakura shrimp, and more.
For those who wish to enjoy the best of Duddell’s Chinese New Year culinary offerings, 2 options of tasting menus are available, with 6-courses priced at HK$1,088 per person and 8-courses priced at HK$1,988 per person. Highlights of the menus include Deep-fried Shrimp Paste Puff with pan-fried honey-glazed semi-dried oyster, Braised Whole 30-Heads Yoshihama Abalone with oyster sauce and shiitake mushroom, Braised Pork Knuckles with semi-dried oyster and dried black moss, and Sweetened Double-Boiled Imperial Bird’s Nest with red date and longan.
Hotel ICON
Kung Hei Fat Choy! Hotel ICON puts on an exciting array of auspicious festive events, traditional puddings, abalone poon choi, lo hei and a homecoming staycation to kick-start the Year of the Rabbit in spectacular style. Gather together with family and friends at Silverbox Ballroon’s CNY Auspicious Seafood Buffet Event, focusing not only symbolic food and free-flow wine but also phenomenal live show, entertainment and lucky draw by award-wining talents and chefs.
At MICHELIN Guide Recommended Restaurant Above & Beyond, our Chinese Executive Chef Wong Chi Ki has meticulously prepared six delectable auspicious festive dishes and Cantonese winter specials, wishing you all a prosperous year ahead.
CNY AUSPICIOUS SEAFOOD BUFFET EVENT
To celebrate the Chinese New Year, our award-winning chefs including Executive Chef Danny Ho, Executive Sous Chef, Joe Wan, Chinese Chef Raymond Fung, Malaysian Chef Kelvin Lee and Thai Chef Jack Pinkkang have curated a gastronomic showcase of traditional Lunar New Year dishes and superb international delicacies at the spacious Silverbox Ballroom on eight selected dates in January 2023.
Gourmets will be delighted in the adventure nature of Chinese cuisine alongside live martial art show by 14 years old “Kung Fu Kid” Wong and the jaw-dropping Chinese acrobatic performance, to satisfy your double enjoyment of sight and taste. Master your chopstick skills and enter the lucky draw by putting your lucky ping pong to the raffle drum with long golden chopsticks, for a chance to win three complimentary dining vouchers of Hotel ICON. Not to mention winning instant prizes with “The Golden House” Ping Pong Guessing Game.
Mato
“Coffee in the morning, wine at night” is not a golden rule, but being able to enjoy life’s great gastronomic pleasures with friends and family most certainly is. Enter mato, where vinophiles and gourmands are welcomed into a sophisticated haven and given license to indulge, with superior coffee and a deep wine cellar spanning underrated producers to the world’s most renowned wine regions, accompanied by a spread of Italian-style bar snacks.
A Unique Coffee-Wine Omakase
Led by a well-experienced sommelier and barista team, mato introduces a one-of a-kind omakase offering in Hong Kong, inviting patrons to dive deeper into the coffee and wine experience through curated picks. Overseeing the experience are Anty Fung, who has more than ten years of experience in wine teaching and management; Wallace Lo, a renowned sommelier and frequent judge for global wine events; and Pearl Lau, a seasoned barista. With their combined experience, the team has crafted an exclusive “Coffee-Wine Omakase” with recommended coffee and wine options for guests according to their preferences and meal selections. Guests can expect to have their taste buds piqued with the harmonious pairing of gourmet food with deluxe coffee and wine.
