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Celebrate Lunar New Year 2023 With Feasts from These Top-Rated Restaurants

Pro tip: Goldbelly delivers delectable Chinese New Year food straight to your door.

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Are you ready to celebrate the Lunar New Year? If not, we’ve got you covered when preparing your feast for the occasion. Also known as Chinese New Year, Lunar New Year 2023 kicks off on Sunday, January 22, and ushers in the Year of the Rabbit. The 15-day celebration signifies the start of the lunar-solar calendar, a time spent honoring the household, heavenly deities and ancestors. Those who celebrate partake in activities and traditions that ring in the holiday, like festivals, lion and dragon dances, flower market shopping and, of course, an indulgent meal.

Most Chinese New Year foods symbolize goals and manifestations for the year ahead — longevity noodles (good fortune), Nian Goa (progress), Peking duck (loyalty) and dumplings (wealth) all serve some symbolic purpose on the table. What's more, meal delivery services are participating in the holiday to bring your favorite dishes in a jiffy. Goldbelly, an online marketplace, ships prepared dishes to your door. It's Lunar New Year menu features a vast selection from restaurants across the country (with most products shipping within a few days to a week). To help curate your lineup, we found the most appetizing Lunar New Year menus out there, including delicious bao buns to festive cookies. Whether you’re looking to gain prosperity, abundance or luck, the dishes and desserts ahead are an excellent place to start.

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TAO Peking Duck Dinner

Peking Duck Dinner
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In Chinese culture, the duck represents loyalty and faithfulness. TAO's fowl is marinated and dried for 48 hours and comes with all the fixings — bao buns, Hoisin sauce, cucumber and sliced scallions, included. Even better, families of four can enjoy a healthy serving.

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Jing Fong Dim Sum Kit

Dim Sum Kit
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Dim Sum is known for increasing good fortune, prosperity and longevity in the coming year. This popular NYC dim sum restaurant offers a kit of shrimp and pork dumplings, wonton soup, longevity noodles, wontons and steamer papers. Ideal for families, it serves three to five people. Jing Fong also donates a portion of the proceeds to the Welcome to Chinatown’s Longevity Fund, which helps local businesses impacted by the pandemic.

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Nom Wah Dumpling Best Seller Pack

Dumpling Best Seller Pack
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Due to their shape resembling an ancient Chinese gold ingot, dumplings are a symbol of wealth. Its namesake translates to “a little bit of heart,” according to Nom Wah's description, referring to its bite-sized explosions of flavor. This pack includes pork, chicken and cabbage dumpling from the NYC Chinatown institution.

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Chef Ming Tsai Potstickers and Sauces Sampler (36 Pack)

Potstickers and Sauces Sampler (36 Pack)
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Potstickers, believed to bring fortune and prosperity, are traditionally made with ground pork and vegetables, but this 36-pack from Chef Ming Tsai takes a more adventurous approach. It consists of flavor variations like sriracha chicken, braised short rib and red roast duck. Also included are three bottles of dipping sauces for the assortment: chili garlic, sriracha lime and sambal lime leaf.

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Rice Box Cheesy "Char Siu" BBQ Pork Bao

Cheesy "Char Siu" BBQ Pork Bao
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For another tasty addition to the Lunar New Year feast, try this barbeque pork Bao pack from Rice Box. These baos incorporate barbeque pork and Monterey Jack cheese, made in a soft almond milk bun for a savory yet sweet bite. They come in a pack of 12, which feeds about six people.

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Kee Wah Bakery Chinese New Year Original Rice Pudding

Chinese New Year Original Rice Pudding
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After feasting on delicious appetizers and main courses, dig into this rice pudding from Kee Wah Bakery for dessert. New Year Rice Pudding, or Nian Gao, is a homonym for "High Year" and is a quintessential dish on the Lunar New Year menu. This option is big enough to feed seven people and comes in pretty red packaging that doubles as a great gift.

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Lady M Confections Green Tea Mille Crêpe Cake

Green Tea Mille Crêpe Cake
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Layer cakes are another dessert fixture for Lunar New Year, and this impressive Mille Crêpe Cake infuses green tea into every bite. The Japanese-French bakery adds in the delicate detail of 20 lacy thin crepes that surrounds the pastry cream.

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Raindrop Cake Raindrop Cake Kit

Raindrop Cake Kit
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Sure to put a smile on the face of loved ones, this Raindrop dessert kit has enough materials to make six cakes comprised of black sugar cane, syrup and roasted soybean. (Plus, they're vegan and gluten-free.) That act of putting it together makes it a real treat among little ones.

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Collegetown Bagels Lunar New Year Cookies (12 Pack)

Lunar New Year Cookies (12 Pack)
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Spread all the luck, prosperity and smiles this year with these cute Lunar New Year cookies — each is hand decorated with red icing for luck and yellow icing for heroism. Perfect for your next party, this package serves about 12 people.

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Ice Cream Jubilee Chinese New Year Ice Cream

Chinese New Year Ice Cream
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For those who are looking for a cold dessert option, go for this ice cream pack from Ice Cream Jubilee. It comes with five creative flavors that are inspired by Chinese traditions. It consists of various flavors like red bean almond cookies, roasted barley tea, miso caramel and peanut butter cookies, dan tat brulee and pear plum wine sorbet.

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