The sheer variety of Chinese cuisine often comes to the forefront during the Lunar New Year festivities, with a spotlight on traditional dishes that signify prosperity, luck, and health. At Takashimaya Shopping Centre, diners are spoilt for choice thanks to options at both the food hall and specialty restaurants. For reunion dinner, consider a hot pot buffet at COCA or a Shanghainese fine dining experience at Imperial Treasure Fine Shanghai Cuisine.
Here are five restaurants to check out.
1. Hot pot buffet at COCA
Derived from the Chinese words “ke kou,” which translates to “appetising,” Coca does Thai-style steamboat with seasonal vegetables, meat, and seafood. Best accompanied by the signature homemade COCA dipping sauce, the premium hot pot buffet is suitable for both small groups and large families. Aside from seafood items, the buffet includes specialties such as shrimp paste, handmade dumplings, fresh vegetables, and meats. Delicacies like lobster, snow crab, scallops, and oysters are also part of the menu. Meanwhile, free-flow beer helps to quell the heat.
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2. Cantonese delights at Crystal Jade Palace
Fans of classic Cantonese cuisine will enjoy Crystal Jade Palace’s festive menu, which includes note-worthy dishes brimming with nourishing properties. There’s a fortifying double-boiled kampong chicken with sea whelk, chanterelle, and sea cucumber flower soup, as well as a fork-tender premium loin rib marinated with Cointreau orange sauce. Appetites will be whet by a lavish trio of lobster, caviar, and foie gras pate on puff pastry. Other note-worthy dishes include steamed marble goby with chef’s special chopped yellow chilli sauce and spicy Boston lobster with dried chilli in Sichuan style.
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3. Shanghainese fine dining at Imperial Treasure Fine Shanghai Cuisine
Bring joy and abundance to your reunion with Imperial Treasure Fine Shanghai Cuisine’s luxurious festive sets. The multi-course menus highlight signature dishes like Australian lobster with glutinous rice, marble goby “soon hock” fish, smoked duck with tea leaves, as well as braised five-head fresh whole abalone with mushroom and vegetables in oyster sauce. Toss to an auspicious year with the fatt choy yu sheng, which comes in four variations including abalone, hamachi, salmon, and vegetarian.
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4. sichuan-inspired cantonese food at Ju Xing Home
Renowned chefs and celebrities often frequent the Michelin Bib Gourmand restaurant, which hails from Hong Kong. Expect to savour Chef Ng Kong Kiu’s unpretentious zi char dishes, infused with wok’s breath and fiery Sichuan flavours. Ju Xing Home‘s first overseas outpost in Singapore serves signature dishes such as boiled fish with chilli oil, lobster with pan-fried rice vermicelli, as well as sweet and sour pork. Honouring its Sichuan-inspired Cantonese roots, the restaurant offers options like spicy fried chicken and poached chili beef, generously seasoned with Sichuan chilli and peppercorn.
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5. Hearty teochew dishes at Paradise Teochew RESTAURANT
Teochew cuisine emphasise natural flavours, light seasoning, and fresh ingredients. At Paradise Teochew Restaurant, diners can enjoy over a hundred Teochew-style dishes, alongside dim sum. For Chinese New Year, the restaurant will serve roasted suckling pig, fragrant salt-roasted chicken, braised Irish fat duck, and more. Take the celebration up a notch with the 10-head abalone treasure pot, as well as abalone or Teochew-style yu sheng. Festive menu aside, the restaurant also offers perennial favourites like the chilled yellow roe crab.
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