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Chinese New Year Food Recipes from Cambodia and Vietnam for Your Lunar New Year Feasts. Slow-Cooked Pork Stew Recipe. Copyright © 2023 Terence Carter / Grantourismo. All Rights Reserved.

Chinese New Year Food Recipes from Cambodia and Vietnam for Your Lunar New Year Feasts

These delicious Chinese New Year food recipes come predominantly from Cambodia and Vietnam. While some of the dishes were traditionally made for Lunar New Year offerings and family feasts, others are special occasions dishes cooked and eaten year-round, not only for Chinese New Year, but have a place on the table during this spring holiday. 

It’s Chinese New Year Eve today and Chinese New Year tomorrow on Sunday 22nd January here in Cambodia, as well as in China obviously, and in other countries with Chinese communities, such as Thailand, Myanmar, Malaysia, and Singapore.

The holiday is also called Lunar New Year and celebrated in neighbouring Vietnam and in East Asian countries that also follow the lunisolar calendar, such as Korea, Japan and Taiwan.

We’ve been getting into the spirit of the holiday here in Siem Reap, making dumplings, frying spring rolls and slurping noodles in between spring cleaning, so we thought we’d share a round-up of Chinese New Year food recipes, which are predominantly Chinese-Cambodian recipes and a few recipes from Vietnam, where we lived before Cambodia and where Tet is being celebrated.

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Now let me tell you all about these Chinese New Year food recipes.

Published 1 February 2022, Updated 21 January 2023

Chinese New Year Food Recipes from Cambodia and Vietnam for Your Lunar New Year Feasts

Chive and Pork Dumplings Recipe for the Cambodian-Chinese Take on Jiaozi

Dumplings are a lucky food for Lunar New Year and my Chinese-Cambodian friends tell me that Chinese New Year would not be complete without dumplings on the table for every Spring festival meal.

Families will often sit and make them together before New Year’s Eve and make enough to cover all holiday meals. This easy chive and pork dumplings recipe makes one of the most popular dumplings here in Cambodia. They’re essentially the Cambodian-Chinese version of jiaozi, the delicious dumplings found right across China.

In Cambodia, they’re often more rustic – no fancy pleating needed – and packed with chives and a little ground pork mince. We love dipping them in Sichuan-style chilli oil or a do-it-yourself sauce of chilli, soy and vinegar.

Easy Chive and Pork Dumplings Recipe for the Cambodian-Chinese Take on Jiaozi

 

Sichuan Style Wonton Recipe for the Sichuan Red Chilli Oil You Made

Easy to make, these spicy Sichuanese wontons have a pork filling that’s so perfectly seasoned you could eat them on your own. But why would you want to when you can generously douse them in some homemade Sichuan red chilli oil.

There are many different recipes for the pork filling for this Sichuan style wonton recipe, but the good ones all start with pork mince with a meat to fat ratio of 80/20. This allows the fat to render in the wonton while cooking, keeping the filling moist.

There’s an old Chinese tradition of stirring the pork mixture in one direction only for 3-4 minutes. The theory is that this keeps the filling tender and moist. And who am I to distrust an ancient Chinese tradition. It also helps to make sure all the ingredients are combined well.

Sichuan Style Wonton Recipe for That Sichuan Red Chilli Oil You Made

 

Cambodian Fried Spring Rolls Recipe for Crispy Deep-Fried Egg Rolls

No compilation of Chinese New Year food recipes would be complete without a recipe for spring rolls. Although eaten year-round nowadays, historically spring rolls were eaten for Chinese New Year and the Spring festival that followed.

While the origin of the spring roll is Chinese, and in Cambodia specifically its provenance is the Chinese-Cambodian community, these fried spring rolls are cooked and eaten by everyone in Cambodia these days.

This classic Cambodian fried spring rolls recipe makes a crunchy deep-fried spring roll filled with minced pork, dried shrimp, carrot, garlic, and daikon radish or taro, seasoned with fish sauce, Kampot pepper, sea salt, and palm sugar.

Fillings vary from region to region in China, but the pork mince-based mixture is nearly always marinated and the marinade typically includes any combination of oyster sauce (we like Lee Kum Kee Premium Oyster Sauce), soy sauces (we like to use these light and dark soy sauce brands), sesame oil, and perhaps Shaoxing cooking wine. We also have a tangy Cambodian fried spring roll dipping sauce recipe that you can make to serve with your spring rolls.

Cambodian Fried Spring Rolls Recipe for Crispy Deep-Fried Egg Rolls Just Like in Cambodia

 

Longevity Noodles Recipe for Lunar New Year for Long Life, Good Luck and Prosperity

One of our favourite Chinese New Year food recipes is this longevity noodles recipe for long life noodles. It’s a traditional Chinese noodle dish made during Chinese New Year or Lunar New Year to bring longevity, good luck and prosperity – as long as you don’t cut the noodles!

This is a super easy recipe, just take care not to break the noodles when you’re boiling them, stir-frying them or eating them, because if you do you’ll get bad luck! We buy a Singapore brand of longevity noodles here in Siem Reap produced by Hup Huat Noodles, to a recipe dating to 1930.

This brand on longevity noodles isn’t available on Amazon, but I’m sure you’ll find them or a similar noodle in an Asian market, specialty Asian grocer or a supermarket with well-stocked Asian sections. Ask for yi mein, yi mian, yee mein, yee fu or e-fu noodles. Good luck!

Longevity Noodles Recipe for Lunar New Year for Long Life, Good Luck and Prosperity

Ginger Scallion Sauce Recipe for Ginger Scallion Noodles

While longevity noodles are a traditional Chinese New Year staple, friends tell me that these days in non-traditional households, any noodles are welcome on the table, as long as you follow the rules and don’t break the strands of noodles.

This ginger scallion sauce recipe for ginger scallion noodles makes the much-copied Momofuku homage to the classic Southern Chinese sauce that chef David Chang and food writer Francis Lam popularised over a decade ago.

Before we knew it as the Momofuku ginger scallion sauce for ginger scallion noodles from chef David Chang’s Momofuku: A Cookbook published back in October 2009, Chang said it was “the secret sauce” served up in Cantonese joints all over New York City. For Francis Lam, it was a Cantonese sauce served to accompany poached chicken and his mother gave him containers of it when he was away in college.

Ginger Scallion Sauce Recipe for Ginger Scallion Noodles – The Momofuku Homage to a Chinese Classic

Slow-Cooked Pork Stew Recipe With Ginger and Star Anise for Khor Cheung Chrouk

Here in Cambodia, families who can afford to will buy a whole roasted piglet for Chinese New Year. Those who can’t will ensure there’s pork on the table for every Chinese New Year meal. This slow-cooked pork stew recipe makes an impressive and incredibly delicious dish.

While it takes some patience to make, it will fill your kitchen with the amazing aromas of pork, star anise and ginger. Served with fried spring rolls, dumplings, noodles, and stir-fried Asian greens, this Cambodian pork leg stew can be the centrepiece of a Lunar New Year feast.

One of the keys to making this slow-cooked pork stew recipe is that you need to find a good pork leg with plenty of meat to fat ratio. You do not want to go to the trouble of making this dish to find that 80% of your pork is actually fat – delicious as it is.

Terence uses his Dutch Oven to make the dish, placing a glass saucepan lid on top instead of the Dutch Oven lid so he can see how much stock is left in the oven.

Slow-Cooked Pork Stew Recipe With Ginger and Star Anise for Khor Cheung Chrouk

 

Char Siu Chinese Barbecue Pork Recipe

Char siu pork is another popular choice for Chinese New Year in Cambodia. Sweet and sticky on the outside, tender and juicy within, this Chinese barbecue pork recipe is super easy to make, it fills your kitchen with amazing aromas, and it’s very versatile.

For Chinese New Year, it will undoubtedly form one of numerous plates that comprise a holiday spread. After the Spring Festival, you can eat this just with steamed rice and Chinese greens and use any leftovers in fried rice or num pang or banh mi.

Char Siu Pork Recipe – How to Make Chinese Barbecue Pork

Crispy Five-Spice Pork Belly Recipe

Along with char siu, a five-spice crispy pork belly is a fantastic addition to a Chinese New Year feast. Five-spice or Chinese five-spice is a dry spice powder mix of ground cinnamon, cloves, fennel seeds, star anise, and Sichuan pepper that is traditionally used for Peking Duck, as well as a rub and in marinades for other dishes.

This is one of Terence’s favourite ways to cook pork belly and he’s been refining his version of this dish for years. It isn’t a labour-intensive dish, but the pork requires a couple of days of fridge time before final serving.

After the pork belly is cooked through, the cooled-off pork goes back in the refrigerator for at least another 12 hours, weighed down to make the pork perfectly even in height. The pork then goes back into the oven to get the skin perfectly crispy. While the presentation here is modern, you can present it in a traditional form for a family meal.

Five-Spice Crispy Pork Belly Recipe – A Refined Rendition for a Dinner Party

Vietnamese Braised Pork Belly and Eggs Recipe for Thit Kho Tau to Celebrate Lunar New Year

This Vietnamese braised pork belly and eggs recipe makes thịt kho tàu, also called thịt kho hột vịt, a rich dish of sweet and salty, melt-in-the-mouth, caramelised pork belly simmered slowly with boiled eggs. While it’s eaten all year in Vietnam, it was a traditional dish for Tết, the Vietnamese Lunar New Year.

Thịt kho tàu has long been one of our favourite Vietnamese dishes and while we used to eat it whenever we had the opportunity when we lived in Vietnam, it started out in life as an essential dish on family tables during Lunar New Year holiday of Tết.

This particular version of this caramelised pork belly and eggs dish has its provenance in Southern Vietnam, as the inclusion of fish sauce, coconut water and palm sugar give away, however, there is a similar dish that hails from Northern Vietnam, and you’ll also find similar braised pork and boiled eggs dishes all over Southeast Asia and China.

Vietnamese Braised Pork Belly and Eggs Recipe for Thit Kho Tau to Celebrate Lunar New Year

 

Stir-Fried Chicken with Cashews Recipe for Cambodia’s Take on Cashew Chicken

In Cambodian families of mixed cultural heritage – Chinese-Cambodian and Khmer – a chicken or chicken dish will often take pride of place instead of a roast piglet. It won’t just be any chicken dish, rather it will be something luxurious, like this stir-fried chicken with cashews recipe for cha moan krop svay chanti.

This Cambodian favourite has its origins in China, in a dish that is a cross between a Sichuanese dish and a Cantonese speciality, so it’s not so out of place on the Chinese New Year table after all. Found elsewhere in Southeast Asia, including Thailand, it’s also similar to a dish known as ‘cashew chicken’ in the USA and Australia and it’s incredibly delicious.

Stir-Fried Chicken with Cashews Recipe for Cambodia’s Take on Cashew Chicken

 

Chinese Special Fried Rice Recipe

This Chinese special fried dish is also called Yangzhou fried rice, because its provenance is the city of Yangzhou in Jiangsu province in China, which was one of the culinary hotbeds of Huaiyang cuisine.

The traditional version of this Chinese special fried rice dish includes cooked rice, char siu pork, shrimps, scallions, ‘scrambled’ eggs, peas, and carrots. Sea cucumber and crab meat are other additions.

Some recipes use lap cheong (or lap chong) instead of char siu pork. Growing up in Australia, this special fried rice was served at every suburban Chinese restaurant in Australia, not to mention at those old-school Cantonese ‘all you can eat’ restaurants that were in every city and town’s Chinatown, so it has a special place in the hearts of nostalgic Australians, especially during Chinese holidays.

Chinese Special Fried Rice Recipe, a Fantastic Filling One Pot Meal

Stir Fried Morning Glory or Water Spinach Recipe for Cambodia’s Char Trokuon

Southeast Asian greens, such as stir-fried morning glory or water spinach, called char trokuon in Cambodia, are not considered one of the lucky foods that you would traditionally have on the Lunar New Year table.

However, no meal in Cambodian is complete without a plate of stir-fried greens or a salad, and is almost one element of a spread of dishes, centred around rice, no matter what the holiday or occasion.

Stir Fried Morning Glory or Water Spinach Recipe for Cambodia’s Char Trokuon

Please do let us know in the comments below if you make any of these Chinese New Year food recipes as we’d love to know how they turn out for you.

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This crab omelette is a decadent eggs dish that’ This crab omelette is a decadent eggs dish that’s perfect if you’re just back from the fish markets armed with luxurious fresh crab meat. It’s a little sweet, a little spicy, and very, very moreish.

Our crab omelette recipe was one of our 22 most popular egg recipes of 2022 on our website Grantourismo and it’s no surprise. It’s appeared more times than any other egg recipes on our annual round-ups of most popular recipes since Terence launched Weekend Eggs when we launched Grantourismo in 2010.

If you’re an eggs lover, do check out the recipe collection. It includes egg recipes from right around the world, from recipes for classic kopitiam eggs from Singapore and Malaysia and egg curries from India and Myanmar to all kinds of egg recipes from Thailand, Japan, Korea, China, Mexico, USA, Australia, UK, and Ireland.

And do browse our Weekend Eggs archives for further eggspiration (sorry). We have hundreds of egg recipes from the 13 year-old series of recipes for quintessential egg dishes from around the world, which we started on our 2010 year-long global grand tour focused on slow, local and experiential travel. 

We’re hoping 2023 will be the year we can finally publish the Weekend Eggs cookbook we’ve talked about for years based on that series. After we can find a publisher for the Cambodia cookbook of course... :( 

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I’m late to share this, but a few days ago Angko I’m late to share this, but a few days ago Angkor Archaeological Park, home to stupendous Angkor Wat, pictured, celebrated 30 years of its UNESCO World Heritage listing. 

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Our soy ginger chicken recipe will make you sticky Our soy ginger chicken recipe will make you sticky, flavourful and succulent chicken thighs that are fantastic with steamed rice, Chinese greens or a salad, such as a Southeast Asian slaw. 

The chicken can be marinated for up to 24 hours before cooking, which ensures it’s packed with flavour, then it can be cooked on a barbecue or in a pan.

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Who can guess the ingredients and what we’re mak Who can guess the ingredients and what we’re making with my market haul from Psar Samaki in Siem Reap — all for a whopping 10,000 riel (US$2.50)?! 

Birds-eye chillies thrown in for free! They were on my list but the seller I spent most at (5,000 riel!) scooped up a handful and slipped them into my bag. She was my last stop and knew what I was making.

My Khmer is poor, even after all our years in Cambodia, as I don’t learn languages with the ease I did in my 20s, plus I’m mentally exhausted after researching and writing all day. I have a better vocabulary of Old and Middle Khmer than modern Khmer from studying the ancient inscriptions for the Cambodian culinary history component of our cookbook I’m writing.

So when one seller totalled my purchases I thought she said 5,000 riel but she handed back 4,500 riel! The sum total of two huge bunches of herbs and kaffir lime leaves was 500 riel.

Tip: if visiting Siem Reap, use Khmer riel for local shopping. We’ve mainly used riel since the pandemic started— rarely use US$ now as market sellers quote prices in riels, as do local shops and bakeries, and I tip tuk tuk drivers in riels. I find prices quoted in riels are lower.

Psar Samaki is cheaper than Psar Leu, which is cheaper than Psar Chas, as it’s a wholesale market, which means the produce is fresher. I see veggies arriving, piled high in the back of vehicles, with dirt still on them — as I did on this trip. 

The scent of a mountain of incredibly aromatic pineapples offloaded from the back of a dusty ute was so heady they smelt like they’d just been cut. More exotic European style veggies arrive by big trucks in boxes labelled in Vietnamese (from Dalat) and Mandarin (from China), such as beautiful snow-white cauliflower I spotted.

Note: the freshest produce is sold on the dirt road at the back of the market.

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My Vietnamese-ish meatballs and rice noodles recip My Vietnamese-ish meatballs and rice noodles recipe makes tender meatballs doused in a delightfully tangy-sweet sauce, sprinkled with crispy fried shallots, with carrot-daikon, crunchy cucumber and fragrant herbs. 

The dish is inspired by bún chả, a Hanoi specialty, but it’s not bún chả. No matter what Google or food bloggers tell you. Names are important, especially when cooking and writing about cuisines not our own.

This is an authentic bún chả recipe:  https://grantourismotravels.com/vietnamese-bun-cha-recipe/ You’ll need to get the outdoor BBQ/grill going to do proper smoky bún chả meat patties (not meatballs).

My meatball noodle bowl is perhaps more closely related to dishes such as a Central Vietnam cousin bún thịt nướng (pork skewers on rice noodles in a bowl) and a Southern relation bún bò Nam Bộ (beef atop rice noodles, sprinkled with fried shallots (Nam Bộ=Southern Vietnam) though neither include meatballs. 

Xíu mại= meatballs although they’re different in flavour to mine, which taste more like bún chả patties. Xíu mại remind me of Southern Italian meatballs in tomato sauce.

In Vietnam’s Mekong Delta, home to millions of Khmer, there’s bánh tằm xíu mại. Bánh tằm=silk worm noodles. They’re topped with meatballs, cucumber, daikon, carrot, fresh herbs, crispy fried onions. Difference: cold noodles doused in a sauce of coconut cream and fish sauce. 

Remove the meatballs, add chopped fried spring rolls and it’s Cambodia’s banh sung, which is a rice noodle salad similar to Vietnam’s bún chả giò :) 

Recipe here: (link in bio) https://grantourismotravels.com/vietnamese-meatballs-and-rice-noodles-recipe/

For more on these culinary connections you’ll have to wait for our Cambodian cookbook and culinary history. In a hurry to know? Come support the project on Patreon. (link in bio)

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It is pure coincidence that Pepper’s eye colour It is pure coincidence that Pepper’s eye colour matches the furnishings of our rented apartment. So, no, I did not colour-coordinate the interiors to match our cat’s eyes. 

I keep getting DMs from pet clothing brands wanting to “partner” with Pepper and send her free cat clothes and cat accessories. Although she did wear a kerchief for a few years in her more adventurous fashion-forward teenage years, I cannot see this cat in clothes now, can you? 

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