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Feast on these
What is Chinese New Year without festive food and drinks? Treat family and business associates to a meal with panoramic views at The Jewel Box. From Jan 19 to Feb 9, new year set menus featuring Singapore Chinese heritage cuisine are available. Dishes include Shanghai-style soya smoked fish, redbraised shark's fin with four treasures, crispy duck flavoured with ginger and scallions, and Beijingstyle jellyfish and vinegarcured cucumber salad. For something unusual, try Peony Jade restaurant's Prosperity Golden Ingot ($138++) which comes in the shape of an ancient Chinese ingot. Crack the crust with the mallet provided and you will find that it is bursting with dried golden conpoy, dried golden oysters, pork knuckles, black moss and shiitake mushrooms which have been slow-baked for four hours. Available for dine-in or takeaway at Peony Jade in Clarke Quay and Keppel Club, as well as Quayside Seafood at Clarke Quay. Order one day in advance. Marriott Hotel's Eight Treasures Cake ($56), stuffed with wolfberries, red dates, dried longan, macadamia nuts, orange skin, gula melaka, winter melon and ginko nuts, is back by popular demand. Round pastries shaped like gold coins, made from emping belinjo, a nut from Indonesia ($36), are also available. For a reunion dinner with a difference, get a Hong Kong style Pen Cai (from $268) from Orchard Hotel's Hua Ting Restaurant. The Pen Cai comes in a wooden container and is chock-full of Chinese New Year's delicacies that represent wealth and abundance. Also available are several yusheng varieties – fresh salmon (small $52, large $98), salmon with lobster and abalone ($288), and the new fresh hamachi yusheng (small $68, large $128). Concorde Hotel is throwing in free yusheng with its reunion dinner buffet ($33.88++ per adult) on Chinese New Year's eve. After a busy morning visiting relatives on New Year's day, you can also drop by for a Chinese buffet lunch ($28++). York Hotel is also offering free yusheng with its Chinese New Year's eve dinner. Plus, all diners can take part in a lucky draw, with accommodation and meal vouchers to be won. Make your own Chinese New Year goodies this year. You can get a Turbo Mira tabletop oven for just $148 to make your own kueh lapis. Buy now to get a 10 per cent discount and free Chinese New Year recipes. The promotion includes the Turbo range of hobs and electric kettles as well. The Turbo Incanto hob produces a flame that is close to industrial strength. If you are having steamboat for the reunion dinner, Turbo's induction hobs heat up quickly and safely. This article was first published in The Sunday Times on Jan 18, 2009. |
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