Think crab-filled Prosperity Salad, long noodles for a long life and more
celebrating the Lunar New YearAnd then there’s the food — special dishes that spotlight flavors and ingredients traditionally enjoyed during the new year season as well as innovative new creations. Here’s a roundup of special offerings for the holiday season.
Know of others? Let us know via the comment field at the end of the article and we’ll add them to the list.From Jan. 22-Feb.5, the Fog Harbor Fish House at San Francisco’s Pier 39 will feature a recipe created by Martin Yan, the celebrity chef who will be the grand marshal of the 2023 Chinese New Year Parade. His Spicy Red Envelope Chile Dungeness Crab is based on a Singaporean recipe found in his “Martin Yan’s Asia” cookbook.All locations will be making a signature cocktail called Down the Rabbit Hole, made with Rabbit Hole Boxergrail Rye Whiskey, Barrow’s Intense Ginger Liqueur, lemon and honey. The cocktail is served on a special drink coaster that offers an augmented reality view when the QR code is scanned. P.F. Chang’s will also be selling Year of the Rabbit T-shirts and socks and fortune cookie keychains.This Valley Fair/Santa Clara dining palace has added several Lunar New Year specials to the menu: Braised South African Abalone with Iberian ham, fat choy, and broccoli; Live Boston Lobster; Canada Dried Oysters with fat choy and dried scallop; Alaska Silver Cod marinated in a sesame mala sauce; Red Bean Sweet Dumplings served in a tangerine peel soup; and Dungeness Crab Fried Rice made with egg yolk and scallions. These dishes will be available from Jan. 20-Feb. 5.All bakery locations are offering a newly created Honey Cream Cake for the Lunar New Year. Also, there’s a “buy three, get one free” deal on mooncakes — either the Golden Yolk Red Bean Pastry Mooncakes or the Taro Mochi Pastry Mooncakes — available through Jan. 29, with a gift box.These Mountain View and Burlingame bakeries will be making a special Year of the Rabbit cake featuring citrus cream and mandarin confit accented by floral notes of jasmine tea mousse. Individual desserts and full-size cakes available through early February.For three nights, Jan. 20-22, this San Francisco restaurant will offer a tasting menu with its signature Vietnamese twist. The $108 menu features Abalone, Crab Egg Rolls, Sashimi Salad, River Prawns, Noodles with Lobster, Duck Pho and dessert. Vegetarians may order an $88 menu that includes Mushroom Banh Khot, Prosperity Salad, Scallop Mushroom, Charred Cauliflower, Vegan Ap Chao, Vegan Bun Bo Hue and dessert.East meets West for one night only, Saturday, Jan. 21, when executive chef Esther Ha of New York City’s Momofuku Ko collaborates on a five-course tasting menu with chef de cuisine Dennis Efthymiou of Luce restaurant at the InterContinental San Francisco. For this $195 menu, the chefs are reinterpreting classics.The restaurants at Santana Row in San Jose and Bishop Ranch in San Ramon will mark the new year with a special chef creation, Wagyu Fried Rice, from Jan. 22-Feb. 12. The dish features Miyazaki Wagyu, Maple Compressed Pork Belly, Black Rice, Fuji Apples and Shishito Peppers.At this Palo Alto hotel, the Quattro bar mixologists have crafted a Lunar New Year cocktail with fig-infused Hendricks gin, cranberry juice, St Germain and truffle honey. Hotel guests will receive an in-room treat from pastry chef Guillermo Soto Torres — a red Sugar Cookie Envelope, filled with chocolate gold coins, strawberry verbena macaron and a chocolate bonbon.
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