Chinese New Year is, more than anything else, a time for delicious food and family reunions – making Bangkok’s best restaurant’s perfect spots to gather. Many venues have created auspicious menus to welcome the Year of the Dragon, hoping to engender health, wealth and happiness for the New Year.
We find the top five restaurants in the city to gather your friends and family at for a Bangkokg Chinese New Year.
1. Fortune and Wealth at Mei Jiang
Cantonese cuisine is a topic pick to usher in Chinese New Year, making the Peninsula Bangkok’s Mei Jiang Chinese restaurant with its southern Chinese food staples the place to be this holiday. Herald in the Year of the Dragon with à la carte specialties as well as two set menus, appropriately named Fortune and Wealth.
The usual CNY suspects will be on the menu including "yu shang" salmon sashimi, braised abalone, stir-fried broccoli topped with crab meat and Yunnan ham, and Chinese New Year petits fours.
Available: 18 January - 26 January 2012
Damage: From 2,280++ THB per person.
Mei Jiang Chinese Restaurant, The Peninsula Bangkok, 333 Charoennakorn Road, Klongsan, Bangkok 10600, Thailand, ห้องอาหารเหม่ยเจียง โรงแรมเพนนินซูล่า กรุงเทพฯถ. เจริญนคร คลองสาน กรุงเทพฯ, +66 2 861 2888, www.peninsula.com
2. Chinese Brunch at Marriot Café
In honor of Chinese New Year, Marriott Café will offer additional menu items and specialties from Man Ho Chinese Kitchen as part of its regular international lunch buffet. New additions include suckling pig served at the chef’s station, as well as roasted duck, Cantonese-style barbecued pork, drunken chicken and Sichuan soup.
Marriott Café will offer additional menu items and specialties from Man Ho Chinese Kitchen as part of its regular international lunch buffet.
Once you’re done with the Chinese fare, the Western buffet items to check out will include foie gras, lamb ossobuco, and grilled or roasted imported beef, lamb and ham. Cold seafood offerings range from Alaskan king crab to New Zealand mussels and imported oysters.
Available: 23 January 2012
Damage: 1,600 THB per person for the buffet. Free-flow sparkling wine is available for 890 THB, free-flow wine for 790 THB and free-flow beer for 450 THB. All prices exclude service charge and tax.
Marriott Café, JW Marriot Bangkok, 4 Sumhumvit Soi 2 Bangkok Thailand, ห้องอาหารแมริออท คาเฟ่ โรงแรมเจดับบลิว แมริออท กรุงเทพฯ, สุขุมวิทซอย 2, +66(0)2 656 7700, www.marriott.com/hotels
3. Prosperity at Nobel House
Noble House welcomes the Year of Dragon with two tasty and auspicious set menus, Prosperity and Emerald, hoping to bring fortune to diners though their traditional dishes.
Noble House welcomes the Year of Dragon with Prosperity and Emerald set menus.
The Prosperity set includes hakao, Beijing duck, stir-fried Phuket lobster with ginger, sautéed Chinese kale with abalone and shiitake mushroom in brown sauce, fried salmon with XO sauce, stir-fried noodles with crab meat and shrimp, taro and gingko nut with sweet sticky rice and much more.
The Emerald set will serve up roasted duck, pan-fried tofu and crispy silver fish, roasted whole suckling pig, seaweed casserole with dried oyster, abalone in brown sauce, baked king prawn with chili and salt, steamed snow fish with preserved Chinese cabbage, fried rice in wrapped in lotus leaves and thousand yolk cake.
Available: 23 January 2012 for lunch (11:30am to 2pm) and dinner (6pm to 10pm)
Damage: 9,990 THB per set for 10 people (Prosperity set), 10,990 THB per set for 10 people (Emerald set). All prices exclude service charge and tax.
Noble House Restaurant, Swissôtel Nai Lert Park, Wireless Road Bangkok Thailand, ห้องอาหารจีนโนเบิ้ลเฮ้าส์ โรงแรมสวิสโฮเต็ล นายเลิศปาร์ค ถนนวิทยุ กรุงเทพฯ, +66 (0)2 253 0123, www.swissotel.com
4. Al fresco dining at Riverside Terrace
Riverside Terrace is offering guests more than just an expanded buffet to celebrate Bangkok Chinese New Year. As people go up to get their food, they’ll be able to watch a calligraphy expert write a beautiful Chinese greetings (and request personal messages), as well as enjoy a lion dance show.
Apart from enjoying an auspicious meal, Riverside Terrace CNY dinner guests will be able to watch a Chinese calligraphy expert at work.
In true CNY spirit, guests will also receive traditional Chinese red envelopes filled with surprises from Anantara including complimentary meals and discount vouchers.
Available: 23 January 2012 from 6pm to 10:30pm
Damage: 1,888 THB per person (excludes service charge and tax).
Riverside Terrace, Anantara Bangkok Riverside Resort & Spa, Charoennakorn Rd. Thonburi Bangkok, อนันตรา กรุงเทพฯ ริเวอร์ไซด์ รีสอร์ท แอนด์ สปา, 257 ถ. เจริญนคร กรุงเทพฯ, +66 (0)2 476 0022 , www.anantara.com
5. Dragon Year at Atelier
To celebrate the Year of the Dragon, Atelier, one of Bangkok’s best buffets, is doing-up its Chinese specialties offering yu shang, homemade dim sum, Beijing duck, Hong Kong-style suckling pig, stir-fried sea cucumber and abalone with dried scallop sauce, and more, in addition to its usual tempting Asian and Western mains, and desserts.
Atelier will offer Chinese specialties, from dim sum and Beijing duck, to mark the start of the Year of the Dragon.
Diners will also receive an ang pao (a red envelope) symbolising hopes for prosperity and good fortune in the New Year.
Atelier’s Chinese New Year Brunch on 22 January 2012 will serve these Chinese specialties with unlimited sparkling wine, house wine, local beer, fruit juice, herbal drinks and soft drinks.
On 23 January diners will also be treated to a Chinese lion dance.
Available: 22 January 2012 for brunch (noon to 3:30pm), 23 January 2012 for dinner (6pm to 10:30pm)
Damage: 1,400 THB net per person (brunch), 1,200 THB net per person inclusive of free-flow red wine (dinner). For both meals, parties of four can dine for the price of two people.
Atelier, Grand Millennium Sukhumvit, Sukhumvit 21 (Asoke) Rd. Bangkok, โรงแรมแกรนด์ มิลเลนเนียม สุขุมวิท ถ. สุขุมวิท 21 (อโศก) กรุงเทพฯ, +66 (0)2 204 4000 , www.grandmillenniumskv.com
