Cracking your brains on festive meals for Chinese New Year? Here is a curated guide to the best restaurant reunion menus in Singapore to enjoy with the entire family for Chinese New Year 2024.

Chinese New Year is a key festive holiday, especially for Chinese families. This 15-day annual festival celebrates the beginning of a new year based on the traditional lunisolar Chinese calendar. 2024 will welcome the wood dragon and bid goodbye to the water rabbit.

Following long-standing traditions, all family members are expected to gather at the family home for a reunion dinner or meal, so be sure to set aside work or complete tasks in advance to fulfil filial responsibilities.

What is the significance of Chinese New Year reunion meals?

Known as ‘Tuan Yuan Fan‘ (团圆饭) in Mandarin, which stands for “gathering around the family hearth”, the purpose of having this annual reunion is to ensure family solidarity and cohesiveness.

The most important meal is the reunion dinner on Chinese New Year’s eve. It typically involves the assemblage of the extended family at a patriarch’s home. The variety of food served is often lavish with symbolic and auspicious meanings. These include prized delicacies like abalone, sea cucumber, and dried oysters. Other traditional lucky dishes that fill the dining table range from dumplings (shaped like ingots) and red dates to longevity noodles (Changshou Mian, or flour vermicelli).

Fish is often part of the sumptuous food spread, as its Mandarin translation, ‘yú’, can signify both fish and abundance.

Of course, you can’t omit yusheng (鱼生) from the menu too. This salad, which means ‘abundant life’, features colourful ingredients like julienned vegetables, raw fish or sliced abalone.

The dish, only available during Chinese New Year, is associated with the custom practice of tossing and reciting auspicious phrases (lo hei, 捞起) and eaten among large groups like family, friends, or colleagues.

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