Summary:

Celebrate Lunar New Year 2025 in NYC with diverse culinary experiences.
Enjoy special menus at various restaurants, featuring symbolic dishes like dumplings, noodles, and fish.
Ăn Tẹt Ga offers a Vietnamese Tết family meal box, while Kancil showcases Malaysian Lunar New Year specials.
Din Tai Fung and Milu offer unique holiday dishes and red envelope giveaways.
Attend the Hana House Lunar New Year Market for food, shops, and entertainment.

NYC Lunar New Year 2025: Where to Celebrate the Year of the Snake

The Lunar New Year, encompassing Chinese New Year, Vietnamese Tết Nguyen Dan, and Korean Seol-Nal, is a time of rich traditions, with food playing a central symbolic role. Dumplings signify wealth, noodles represent longevity and happiness, and fish brings prosperity.

NYC offers a plethora of options to celebrate the Year of the Snake, starting January 29th. Here are some highlights:

Top NYC Restaurants for Lunar New Year Celebrations:

1. Ăn Tẹt Ga at Bánh Vietnamese Shop House (Upper West Side): Offers a Tết family meal box ($199) with bánh chưng, chả giò, thịt kho, xôi gấc, and more. Preorders available online for pickup on January 25th and 26th.

Ăn Tẹt Ga Meal

2. Kancil (Upper West Side): Chef Simpson Wong presents Lunar New Year specials including yusheng, whole fish, and kuih bahulu, available only on January 29th.

Long Island Striped Bass at Kancil

3. Din Tai Fung (Midtown): Celebrates its first Lunar New Year with Shanghai rice cakes, shrimp fried rice, and special red envelopes containing a salad recipe. Five lucky guests win VIP reservation access.

Shanghai Rice Cakes at Din Tai Fung

4. Asian Jewels (Flushing): Offers Lunar New Year preorders like sauteed lobster, steamed whole fish, and seafood rolls.

Dim Sum from Asian Jewels

5. Grandma’s Home (Hangzhou Cuisine, NYC): Features a la carte dishes and a $68 coursed meal with soy-glazed fish, lobster, and xiao long bai. Available January 25th - February 2nd.

Dumplings from Grandma's Home

6. Milu (Gramercy): Offers a $16 Lunar New Year cookie tin with snake-shaped palmiers and orange blossom shortbreads. Preorders available online for pickup January 28th - 31st.

Milu Cookie Tin

7. Hunan Slurp (East Village): Serves pork tang yuan (red bean paste soup with rice balls) January 28th - February 4th.

Hunan Slurp Dish

8. C as in Charlie (Noho): Offers a Seollal dessert special (five-color gyeongdan) on January 30th and 31st.

C as in Charlie Dessert

9. Saigon Social (Lower East Side): Hosts a Tết dinner with Vân Vân on January 21st. Reservations available online.

Saigon Social Dish

10. Round K by Sol (Chinatown): Serves tteokguk January 23rd - 31st.

Round K by Sol Dish

11. Chinese Tuxedo & The Tyger (Chinatown & Little Italy): Tuxedo Hospitality restaurants with Lunar New Year decorations, lion dancers, and special dishes. January 27th - February 9th.

Chinese Tuxedo Celebration

12. Nin Hao (Prospect Heights): Offers Lunar New Year specials including braised pork belly, sea bass, and rice cakes. January 28th - February 12th.

Nin Hao Dishes

13. Leland Eating and Drinking House (Prospect Heights): Lunar New Year pop-up with lobster har gow, Hainan chicken, Beijing duck, and special cocktails. January 27th - February 2nd.

Leland Eating and Drinking House

Lunar New Year Events:

1. Hana House Lunar New Year Market (Downtown Brooklyn): Food vendors, shops, entertainment, and live music. Tickets $7.18, February 1st, noon-6 p.m.

Source: Eater NY