Learn More About Hands-on Chinese New Year Cuisine Class in Singapore

Hands-On Chinese New Year Cuisine Class in Singapore

Gather your family and friends and toss your way to a delicious and prosperous new year with Chinese New Year cuisine. 

Chinese New Year is an excellent opportunity to take a break from your busy work schedules and renew your family bonds. It is also a perfect time to hold a reunion dinner or a great dish to celebrate the new year with auspicious and mouthwatering Chinese New Year food.

Don’t worry if you are clueless about what you should prepare or your cooking skills is not so good; joining our Hands-On Cooking Class in Singapore will solve the problem. We will help you celebrate the lunar new year more memorably through delicious Chinese foods. 

Class 1: Celebrating Chinese New Year with Yusheng – 4 hours per session

A feast fit for Chinese New Year featuring Yusheng and Claypot Rice!

No Chinese New Year celebration is complete without Yusheng. This colourful raw cuisine symbolises prosperity. First, auspicious-sounding ingredients are added. Then, they are thrown and mixed from a height. This helps ring in good fortune. Yusheng is not only delicious but also offers significance to the celebration. 

Certain dishes are prepared and eaten during the Chinese New Year because of their symbolic meaning, like bringing good luck for the coming year. So, join this hands-on class and learn the following dishes:

1. Waxed Meat Claypot Rice 
2. Grilled Chicken Chinese Style 

Our professional chefs will help you make Yusheng with a Thai twist in this class. All the sauces and ingredients are freshly made without pickled veggies. 

Class 2: Celebrating Chinese New Year with Impressive Dishes – 4 hours per session

A feast fit for Chinese New Year featuring these impressive dishes!

Chinese New Year is undoubtedly the most important celebration among Chinese with historical and cultural significance. Signalling the start of spring, this event is also the start of a new year based on the Chinese lunar calendar. 

Lucky food is mainly served during Chinese New Year’s Eve to bring good fortune for the coming year. In this course, you can impress your loved ones this coming Chinese New Year by preparing impressive dishes, such as: 

1. Braised Pork Knuckle – this symbolises forwardness. So, eating it on Chinese New Year brings lots of good luck, progress, and prosperity. It is also incredibly flavourful and delicious!
2. Broccoli with Braised Sea Cucumber and Mushrooms – this Chinese delicacy is perfect for ringing in the lunar new year. It is cooked slowly to deliver velvety soft broccoli and savoury mushrooms. Of course, the sea cucumber creates a melt-in-your-mouth tenderness. 
3. Steamed Whole Fish with Superior Soya Sauce – this steamed whole fish dish is a good omen for having more money in the upcoming year. Eating fish, like this dish, is often accompanied by the famous saying, “May you always have more than you need!”
4. Lotus Leaf Wrap Rice – this traditional glutinous rice (also known as Lo Mai Kai) is made of sticky rice, chicken, sausages and chestnuts wrapped in lotus leaves.

Class 3: Singapore Zi Char Delights – 3 hours per session

Enjoy cereal prawns, sambal kang kong, and coffee pork ribs!

Most coffee shops in Singapore serve Zi Char dishes. These budget-friendly Chinese dishes are the highlights of your new year celebration. 

Zi Char holds a local food culture significance. It comes with hearty and warm meals. Eating these dishes with your loved ones can make you closer and create new beautiful memories. 

Enrolling in this class gives you the best chance to make these delicious and famous dishes in the upcoming Chinese New Year. Below is a menu to fill your celebration with Zi Char dishes: 

1. Cereal prawns
2. Coffee pork ribs
3. Sambal kangkong

Class 4: All About Crabs – 3 hours per session

One of the most popular Zi Char foods in Singapore is the Chili, Pepper, and Salted Egg Yolk Crab!

During the Lunar New Year, Singaporean crab delicacies are quite popular. These dishes are considered to be a must-have at any type of celebration or party, especially during Chinese New Year dinners. There are a variety of dishes that are popular in the area, including salted egg yolks and chilli crabs. This would certainly be a flavorful and fun way to celebrate the new year with friends and family.

There are a number of recipes from this course that can help you celebrate Chinese New Year with crabs on your table. If you are interested in learning these recipes, you can join our hands-on classes in Singapore: 

1. Chili Crab
2. Black Pepper Crab
3. Salted Egg Yolk Crab Served with Fried Mantou Buns

These classic crab dishes are favourites from Singapore Zi Char restaurants. You will receive one crab in every recipe. So, you will take home a total of 3 crabs. 

Class 5: Chinese New Year Traditional Cookies – 3 hours per session

Chinese New Year celebration is an excellent opportunity to bring out or learn new baking skills. If you join this hands-on class, you can make and share your cookies with your family and friends.

This course shows different recipes and techniques to make traditional cookies. Preparing traditional Chinese New Year goodies is critical to welcoming and celebrating the new year. Whether you are a cookie-lover or love baking, these are recipes you can consider for your Chinese New Year celebration:

1. Bak Kwa cookies
2. Chicken floss cookies
3. Dried shrimp flaky cookies
4. Salted yolk cookies

Class 6: Chinese New Year Pineapple Tarts – 3 hours per session

You will love these sinful morsels made with homemade jam and pastry! 

For sure, no one would refuse to take a bite of crumbly with melt-in-your-mouth texture pineapple tart. This tart with deep-flavoured pineapple tart offers a buttery aroma, flavour, and a perfect balance between acidity and sweetness. 

In this hands-on class, you will make everything from scratch. Don’t worry; the recipe does not require much equipment. So, do not miss a chance to make this tart part of your Chinese New Year cookie platter. 

Conclusion 

Join our Hands-On Chinese New Year Cuisine Class in Singapore and celebrate the lunar year with delicious and appealing Chinese foods.

Get in touch today to get the latest class schedules via email. Put on your apron, and let’s start cooking and baking!