Our 12 Favorite Recipes For Chinese New Year

This year, the Year of the Snake, does not neccessarily have to taste like snake. Start off the year with a feast of Long Life noodles and whole steamed fish, which are supposed to guarantee you with a long, prosperous life but are probably both just better at tasting delicious. Whip out the wok, break out the duck sauce and buy yourself a bottle of Ban Jiu (if you dare) because it's time to celebrate. This is the time to forget about the carton box, and opt for authentic — meaning "homemade." Scroll through the gallery below for our 12 favorite Chinese recipes. 

Our 12 Favorite Recipes For Chinese New Year

Chinese New Year Long Life Noodles Recipe

Long Chinese New Year noodles equals long life

If Los Angeles Chef Jet Tila can break world records for Longest California Roll and Biggest Stir-Fry, it's logical to conclude that his long life noodles — a Chinese New Year staple dish — will help us all break the record for Longest Life Owed To A Noodle. 

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Sweet and Sour Chinese Cabbage Recipe

A veggie dish from the Meat Free Monday Cookbook

Great vegetable sides are always useful recipes to have on-hand. Whether you're serving this sweet and sour Chinese cabbage as part of an all-vegetarian spread or topping your perfectly grilled hot dog, you'll be prepared. It's as tasty on a sandwich as it is on a bite of Wasabi Flank Steak.

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Chinese Roast Chicken Buns Recipe

A refreshingly new and easy roast chicken sandwich

Tender meat—often pork, though here, it’s simple roasted chicken—sweet, garlicky hoisin sauce, cooling cucumber, and scallion all tucked into soft pillowy steamed dough with a squirt of our beloved sriracha; no wonder everyone seems crazy for Chinese buns these days. Packaged buns can be purchased at Asian markets if you...

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How to Make Chinese Orange Anything

Quell the orange chicken shakes with an easy trick

How do the Chinese do it? How is their food so reliably tasty? Without getting into any nitty-gritty details, of course. Who doesn't love lo mein? The answer is nobody.

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Coconut Pork Egg Rolls Recipe

Egg rolls featuring crispy coconut and meaty pork

Coconut and pork may sound unusual together, but one bite of these crispy egg rolls and you’ll be hooked! Serve them as appetizers with a sweet and sour plum sauce or your favorite dipping sauce. 

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Cantonese Spiced Pork Meatball Soup

Turns out the Chinese make a spicy meatball, too

Chinese chefs grind far more pork than any other meat for various dumplings, savory cakes, meatballs and stuffed vegetables, and the meatballs bound with rice, egg, and watercress for this spicy Cantonese soup have to be some of the most delectable ever conceived.

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Ginger Fried Rice Recipe

Fried rice is Chinese New Year food we can all make

Get familiar with this easy yet sophisticated ginger fried rice recipe from Anthony Ricco, Chef de Cuisine at Jean-Georges Vongerichten's Spice Market. Topped with garlic and ginger-crusted fried (dragon) eggs, fried rice has never looked so fierce. 

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Wolfgang Puck's Pot Sticker Recipe

Make a mountain of Chinese dumplings for your party

If you think it's hard to make dumplings, think again. Pot stickers are some of the easiest finger food to make, and once you get the hang of egg washing, stuffing and folding you just might become a dumping-making machine. Best of all, these freeze perfectly. Just load batches of uncooked pot stickers into freezer bags for a pleasant surprise when you think there's...

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Homemade XO Chinese Sauce Recipe

Everybody needs a little XO on their Chinese pork

Leviton's homemade XO sauce, a salty-savory-sweet Chinese condiment made from caramelized dried seafood and sausage, is a great match for pork belly, scallops and a range of other Chinese dishes. You’ll notice that the XO sauce calls for house-dried seafood, but the home chef can buy this all at a well-stocked Asian market.

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Steamed Rockfish With Ginger And Green Onion Recipe

Ring in a prosperous New Year with a whole fish

Gung Hay Fat Choy! Happy New Year! To celebrate the coming of the New Year, the Chinese prepare certain foods because they have a specific meaning, says Chef Jet Tila. Whole fish symbolizes togetherness and abundance and is a very important New Year’s food; this is a classic Chinese steamed fish recipe.

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Plum Sauced Chicken Wings Recipe

Chicken Wings in Hoisin and Plum Sauce

Store-bought hoisin sauce and canned plums make this Asian take on chicken wings extra easy. Fire up the sauce by adding 1⁄4 teaspoon cayenne pepper to the plum mixture before cooking.

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Chinese Chive And Pressed Tofu Turnover Recipe

A vegetarian tofu recipe in a portable pouch

These chewy-crisp pockets of goodness are fun to make and even better to eat. They are a popular Chinese snack filled with the slight garlicky bite of Chinese chives and the savory depth of seasoned pressed tofu

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