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Spirited Eats: Gallop into the Year of the Horse with these CNY festive dining options

February 1, 2026

From refined Cantonese banquets to polished takeaway feasts, Lunar New Year dining in Singapore this year is less about excess — and more about connection, ritual, and choosing the right table to gather around.

Lunar New Year dining in Singapore has evolved.

Where once the Lunar New Year feasting was defined by maximalist menus and competitive opulence, today’s most compelling festive offerings feel more considered and calibrated for how we actually celebrate now. Families want reassurance and ritual; hosts want flexibility without compromise; and increasingly, diners are choosing places that understand the emotional choreography of reunion meals as much as they do premium ingredients.

This year’s standout Lunar New Year programmes reflect that shift. From destination Chinese restaurants anchoring multi-generational reunions, to hotels offering polished at-home spreads for those hosting beyond their own kitchens, these Lunar New Year dining and takeaway options capture how Singapore now celebrates the season: deliberately, generously, and with a renewed respect for why these meals matter in the first place.

Peach Blossoms at PARKROYAL Collection Marina Bay

For those marking the Lunar New Year around the table rather than the takeaway box, award-winning Peach Blossoms at PARKROYAL COLLECTION Marina Bay again positions itself as one of the city’s most composed destinations for festive Chinese dining. Helmed by Executive Chinese Chef Edward Chong, the restaurant’s 2026 Lunar New Year programme leans into refinement and ingredient-led storytelling, offering a structured range of set menus that feel celebratory without tipping into theatrical excess — well-suited for both intimate reunions and large, corporate-style gatherings.

The headline is the eight-course Spring Blossoms Rising Fortune Set, a showcase of premium produce and technical confidence that frames Lunar New Year dining as a journey rather than a checklist. Dishes move fluidly from a savoury reinterpretation of yu sheng anchored by traditional Hakka-style salt-baked chicken, through to snow crab spring rolls crowned with bird’s nest and caviar, double-boiled Muscovy duck soup, Alaskan king crab with roe, and slow-poached dried abalone enriched with pig’s trotter vinegar. The menus are thoughtfully tiered — from vegetable-forward and smaller-format sets to expansive banquet menus for tables of ten — allowing hosts to scale ambition without diluting intent.

Prefer to take away? The Happiness Reunion Family Bundle comes a generous six-dish spread built for sharing, featuring prosperity salmon yu sheng, braised pig trotter with abalone, steamed seabass with dried oyster, smoked soy sauce chicken and glutinous rice enriched with Chinese sausage and abalone, before closing on a seasonal nian gao.

The Lunar New Year set menus at Peach Blossoms is available for dine-in now till 8 March 2026, while its festive takeaway offerings can be ordered online, and available for self-collection till 3 March 2026.

Peach Blossoms | 6 Raffles Blvd, Level 5 PARKROYAL COLLECTION Marina Bay, Singapore 039594 (Google Maps link) | 12pm to 3pm and 6.30pm to 10.30pm daily | www.panpacific.com/en/hotels-and-resorts/pr-collection-marina-bay/dining/peach-blossoms | 6845 1118 | online reservations

The Lunar New Year spread from Hai Tien Lo in Pan Pacific Singapore for the Year of the Horse

Hai Tien Lo at Pan Pacific Singapore

Celebrating the Year of the Horse in true auspicious style is Hai Tien Lo, whose recently-appointed Executive Chinese Chef Edden Yap and his team unveils not one, not two, but a whopping eight curated set menus this Lunar New Year.

Savour the likes of a very soul-warming Double-boiled Chicken Soup loaded with whole abalone, morel mushroom, dried scallop, and sea whelk, or the deliciously unctuous Braised Australian Fresh Half Abalone in Abalone Sauce. There’s also the smoke-kissed Wok-fried East Australian Lobster that come tossed with aromatic Thai basil leaf and green vegetables in supreme soya sauce showcasing wok mastery.

For those hosting at home but unwilling to compromise on polish, Hai Tien Lo once again delivers a Lunar New Year takeaway programme that mirrors the restaurant’s dining room gravitas. Anchored by classic reunion centrepieces, the offering is built around generous Poon Choy selections — the Classic Treasure Pot, for example, comes layered with eight-head abalone, fish maw, dried scallop and sea cucumber — and Yu Sheng platters designed for both symbolism and substance.

Hai Tien Lo’s dine-in Lunar New Year set menus start from now to 3 March 2026. You can order its Lunar New Year takeaways online, which are available for delivery or self-collection till 3 March 2026.

Shang Palace at Shangri-La Singapore

If you’re looking to mark the Lunar New Year with ceremony, comfort and occasion, Shang Palace at Shangri-La Singapore delivers one of the city’s most traditionally grounded yet quietly luxurious Chinese New Year programmes. The Chinese fine-dining restaurant’s dine-in offerings reaffirm Shang Palace’s role as a destination for multi-generational reunions — where formality is reassuring, flavours are classical, and the pacing of a Cantonese banquet is allowed to unfold properly.

Offering six different eight-course set menus — with names like ‘Happiness‘, ‘Prosperity‘, and ‘Golden Dynasty‘, among others — thoughtfully tiered to accommodate everything from intimate family lunches to large-scale reunion dinners, diners can expect to feast on familiar festive touchstones ranging from yu sheng with Norwegian smoked salmon and lobster, braised bird’s nest broth, braised South African dried abalone, sautéed lobster and coral trout. You’ll want to kick off festivities with the restaurant’s limited-edition Auspicious Golden Horse Yu Sheng, a vibrant medley of fresh vegetables, pickles, and condiments topped with smoked salmon and jellyfish.

Shang Palace also offers a festive largesse for takeaway that runs from a newly-introduced Imperial Pen Cai — a lavish centrepiece built around South African candy heart dried abalone, Japanese sea cucumber, fish maw, dried scallops and oysters, complemented by braised pork knuckle, roasted pork belly and king prawns — to a meticulous line-up of handcrafted nian gao alongside radish cakes, pineapple tarts, savoury snacks and Shang Palace’s signature sauces.

The Lunar New Year set menus at Shang Palace is available for dine-in now till 3 March 2026. Order its festive takeaway offerings online, which are available for delivery or self-collection till 3 March 2026.

Lo hei at Carlton Hotel Singapore

Wah Lok at Carlton Hotel Singapore

This stalwart of Cantonese cuisine once again presents eight auspicious set menus for dine-in celebrations as it has every year, to suit a variety of family sizes and budgets. Some of the festive dishes include Wah Lok’s signature Hamachi Soon De Lo Hei, delectably flakey and melt-in-the mouth Pan-Fried Sea Perch, and the indulgent Pan-fried Scallop, Minced Shrimp, Crab Meat and Crab Roe, amongst other luxurious courses perfect for heralding in the new year.

Wah Lok never fails to demonstrate the same amount of care in the design of their Lunar New Year takeaway menus, and this year has introduced the unique Sea Cucumber White Bait Yu Sheng, and the decadent Abalone Eight treasure Duck. The latter is a whole duck slow-braised with premium ingredients like abalone, sea cucumber, conpoy, pork, chestnut, mushrooms and lotus seeds, a worthy centerpiece on the reunion dinner table. Customers who want the convenience of an all-in-one takeaway meal won’t go wrong with the Abundance Pack that includes Abalone Yu Sheng, Longevity Poon Choi, Soya Chicken, Premium Wah Lok XO Sauce and Traditional Nian Gao.

Wah Lok’s dine-in Lunar New Year set menus start from now to 3 March 2026. Preorders for Wah Lok’s Lunar New Year takeaways are available from now until 10 February 2026, and collection and delivery available until 16 February 2026.

Thanying Restaurant at Amara Singapore

If you’re tired of the same ol’ boring Lunar New Year dishes year after year, Thanying’s Thai interpretations may just excite your tastebuds. Their Yu Sheng looks like any other, but is tossed with a spicy sweet-sour sauce for a distinctive Thai flavour and, even better, comes topped with addictive fried chicken skin.

Swop out typical braised seafood staples for Phad Kra-Praw Pla which highlights the crunchy texture of sliced fish maw, fried with dried mushrooms and crabmeat. Or opt to go wholly Thai with Chu-Chi Goong, large river prawns with a creamy and fiery red curry sauce. See-Krong Moo Ohb Nam-Pung won’t be out of place on the reunion dinner table with a stack of impressively large smoked and honey marinated pork ribs, nor would Khao Ohb Nam-Liaeb Truffle, the ubiquitous Thai black olive rice with minced chicken given a luxurious upgrade with truffle shavings.

Thanying’s Lunar New Year menu is available from now till 3 March 2026.

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Spirited Eats: Gallop into the Year of the Horse with these CNY festive dining options