IN PHOTOS: Special menus to celebrate Chinese New Year in Mumbai

Chinese New Year tomorrow marks the arrival of spring and pays homage to ancestors with 10 delicious dishes, each symbolising good fortune, good health and abundance [Report By: Phorum Pandya]

Updated On: 2024-02-09 02:45 PM IST

Compiled by : Editor

Steamed fish on the New Year menu represents abundance

Savour the festivities with ancestral home-style dishes of dragon pumpkin pie, mock meat jiaozi, dragon shrimp wonton, stir crispy chilli, steamed whole St Peter’s fish, ginger soy scallion, lamb in whole garlic, poon choi and festive Lunar New Year fried rice.
FROM February 9 to 18; 7 pm to 1 am (all days), 12.30 pm to 3.30 pm (weekends)
AT Dashanzi, JW Marriott Mumbai, Juhu.
CALL 9004616506

Lobster will be a main dish on the New Year menu as it is called dragon prawn in Mandarin and represents the dragon. Check the recipe here

Chef Raymond Wong, master chef, By The Mekong, The St Regis Mumbai, puts his favourite family dish on the menu — treasure fried rice combo with roasted honey cha siew chicken. Other delicacies include noble wok fried lobster with king oyster mushroom in truffle sauce, wealthy crispy golden corn with edamame in yellow Pino chilli sauce and the Propertius stewed long cabbage in Hong Kong olive sauce.
TILL February 18; 7 pm to 11.30 pm
AT By The Mekong, 
St Regis Mumbai, Lower Parel.
CALL 8657907732

Pair chiu chou potato, chicken black pepper, succulent lamb chop with spicy sauce, and the aromatic baby cabbage rice with drinks like flaming dragon, Chinese fizz or a stiff Beijing old fashioned.  
TILL February 29; Monday to Thursday, 12 pm to 11 pm
AT Pa Pa Ya, Palladium Mall, BKC and Malad.
CALL 7400433430

The limited-edition menu includes lobster and mozzarella kadaifi dim sum with Japanese mayo, lotus root-wrapped exotic mushroom dumpling topped with a fermented chilli sauce, a three-style eggplant to a hearty claypot chicken in emperor sauce. Save room for the dessert, rightly named Lucky Dragon — a white sesame sponge laced with praline, kumquat compote, and ginger mousse.
TILL March 7
AT Yauatcha Mumbai, Raheja Tower, Bandra Kurla Complex.
CALL 9222222800

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