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Chinese New Year: 6 restaurants with special set menus for a delicious celebration
Chinese New Year is upon us and what better way to celebrate than with food?
The Year of the Water Rabbit arrives on Jan. 22, Sunday, which means loads of special set menus and promos from some of Metro Manila's greatest Chinese haunts.
Here are some set menus and dishes to check out:
1. Jasmine at New World Makati Hotel
New World Makati's popular authentic Chinese restaurant, Jasmine, rings in the Chinese New Year with two set menus that signify prosperity, longevity and happiness.
Set Menu 1 (P10,888) starts with the salmon yu sheng salad, also known as the prosperity salad, followed by the braised abalone mushroom in crabmeat broth, wok-fried prawns in black pepper sauce, steamed fish fillet in superior sauce — a totally standout dish! — braised Chinese black mushroom with sea moss and kailan, and steamed rice with preserved sausage in lotus leaf.
The meal also comes with hot cream red bean soup and lotus seeds and glutinous rice dumpling with milk chocolate, and includes one box of nian gao.
Set Menu 2 (P13,888) meanwhile kicks off with a prosperity salad, along with braised assorted seafood in a fish maw broth, pan-fried tiger prawn in spicy bean sauce, steamed live garoupa in superior soy sauce, braised dried oyster with sea moss in premium oyster sauce, and stir-fried misua in ‘Fujian’ style.
This set also has two desserts: the double-boiled white fungus with lotus seeds and steamed piggy buns with milky egg cream and will also include one box of nian gao (rice cake).
Both sets are good for four guests and are available this weekend from January 20-22.
Just craving for some dimsum? You're in luck! Jasmine has on offer all-you-can-eat dimsum from xiao long bao (pork dumpling) and barbecued pork pastry puff to seafood taro puff and shrimp with bamboo shoot dumpling.
For reservations, you may call (02) 8-811-6888. New World is located on Esperanza Street corner Makati Avenue, Ayala Center, Makati City.
2. Xiu Fine Cantonese Dining
Popular restaurant, Xiu, on Connecticut Street in San Juan also has two special set menus for Chinese New Year on top of their usual delicious dishes.
Set A (P12,388) includes an appetizer of 3 kinds of dimsum (shark's fin dumpling, vegetable dumpling, fried shrimp wonton), pumpkin and seafood thick soup, and mains, steamed tiger prawns with garlic, 1/2 roast duck, stewed pork ribs (emperor style), steamed lapu-lapu with garlic, steamed crab in egg white, and efu noodles (just your usual noodles made of egg and wheat) with seafood in truffle sauce, and mango buchi for dessert.
Set B (P14,388) serves up a steamed money bag with spring rolls for an appetizer, Chinese-style coconut chicken soup, radish with scallops and French beans on XO sauce, braised fish maw with sea moss and meatballs, steamed lapu-lapu with taoso, fried pigeon, steamed crab with garlic, and efu noodles with seafood in abalone sauce, and hot taro soup with sweet glutinous rice balls.
The wok-fried scallops with french beans in truffle sauce is a must-try! They also serve it a la carte.
Both sets are good for a party of 6.
Book a table at Xiu by calling (02) 8-650-7189, (02) 8-650-8428, (0947) 707-0228. Xiu is located at 115 Connecticut Street, Northeast Greenhills, San Juan.
3. Crystal Dragon at City of Dreams
City of Dreams' Cantonese restaurant Crystal Dragon is putting a twist on the prosperity salad with a prosperity roasted duck instead of herring or salmon, as roasted duck symbolizes wealth, abundance, and fertility.
The salad comes with jellyfish, crispy vegetables, and plum dressing, which denotes a harmonious family relationship. The flour crisps meanwhile symbolize prosperity, as well.
Crystal Dragon is also offering more dishes like the steamed duo flavor live grouper with signature tofu, roasted crispy spring chicken with supreme soy sauce, Buddha jumps over the wall (a nourishing broth soup that may come with abalone and various ingredients), braised sea cucumber and pork trotter with black moss and brown sauce, wok-tossed creamy prawns with fragrant shredded coconut, and wok-fried Fragrant Glutinous Rice with Guangdong cured pork, and the crispy Taro and New Year cake pillow.
To book a table, call (02) 8-691-7782. City of Dreams is located at Entertainment City, corner Macapagal Ave, Aseana Ave, Parañaque.
4. Wangfu Chinese Cafe
At Wangfu, foodies can have their pick of three set menus to celebrate Chinese New Year.
With the Set A menu (P1,788), they can chow down on sweet and sour pork, black pepper beef, sweet corn soup (regular), emperor chopsuey, and yangchow rice.
If they order Set B (P1,888), they can satisfy their appetite with salted egg chicken, salt and pepper liempo, seafood green soup (regular), french beans stir fry, and yang chow rice.
And let's not forget about the Set C menu (P1,988), which brings cereal prawns (6 pieces), salted egg chicken, seafood green soup (regular), french beans stir fry, and yang chow rice to the table.
You also can't go wrong with most of their a la carte dishes like sweet and sour pork with lychee or beef with broccoli in oyster sauce, but definitely best to throw in their hainanese chicken! Super yummy! You can also throw in some polonchay (spinach) for an extra health kick.
Each set is good for 3-4 persons and comes with a free tikoy fish from Polland.
Wangfu has branches at U.P. Town Center, Eastwood, Serendra, Tomas Morato, Ayala Malls Vertis North, Ayala Malls Cloverleaf, l Terrazzo, SM Marikina, SM Fairview.
5. Lugang Cafe
Lugang Cafe presents four "Lucky New Year Dishes," namely Taiwan-style grilled porkchop, steamed chicken in chili sauce, fried rice with sausage and truffle, and soft tofu and mushroom in abalone sauce.
While you're there, be sure to try their kung pao tofu (with cashews) and chicken topped with scallion and ginger oil, which are light yet filling and appetizing a la carte dishes.
Lugang has branches in Glorietta, O'Square, Robinsons Place Manila, SM Megamall, SM Mall of Asia, SM North Edsa, SM Aura Premier, and SM City Ecoland Davao.
6. Red Ginger at City of Dreams
Red Ginger adds five dishes symbolizing prosperity, fortune, happiness, and more.
Diners can take their pick from fortune lao sheng, a chicken salad with plum dressing; longevity noodles consisting of egg noodles with crispy pork belly, and quail eggs; braised prosperity pork knuckle with king mushrooms; happiness prawn and squid, a medley stir-fried in curry XO sauce; and for dessert, harmony coconut, a mix of coconut jelly and ice cream — or perhaps, order all five!
To book a table, call (2) 8-691-7783. City of Dreams is located at Entertainment City, corner Macapagal Ave, Aseana Ave, Parañaque.
— LA, GMA Integrated News
