Chef Samuel Lee is at the head of the kitchens of the Parisian restaurant Shang Palace, the only starred Chinese restaurant in France.
If, this year, the establishment is closed due to the crisis, this great specialist in Chinese cuisine will nonetheless celebrate the New Year with joy and greed: “In China, the celebrations last up to two weeks!
Whether with family or friends, it's a real culinary marathon.
They are often large tables.
But it is above all the large number of dishes offered that characterize a festive meal.
There may be more than twenty.
We also gladly take the opportunity to cook with the family.
We start, for example, all together preparing ravioli ... Steamed, fried or in soup, there is always some.
I love that !
Each dish has a strong symbolism.
Ravioli embodies wealth, fish abundance, the sticky rice cake called
niangao
prosperity to come.
"
Same enthusiasm at Céline Chung.
She is the founder of two popular Chinese trendy restaurants, Petit Bao in the 2nd arrondissement and Gros Bao in the 10th arrondissement.
Like many Asian restaurateurs, she has quite easily managed to offer a nice menu for take-out and delivery: “Popular Chinese culinary culture is very much centered on market cuisine.
It is eaten in the street and is easily transported.
Many specialties such as ravioli or all sautéed dishes therefore hold well over time and are easily reheated.
In addition, in China, it is quite common to go get your meal in the local boui-boui or have it delivered.
For Chinese restaurateurs, having this habit has already been an asset.
If we add the comforting side of this cuisine for our customers, everything was already in place to adapt to current constraints.
"What, in any case, allow us, despite everything, to feast on the occasion of this New Year not quite like the others ...
In addition to its large ravioli in the shape of filled brioche (baozi) and its good marinated or simmered dishes which are always on the menu, Gros Bao offers from February 12 to 14 a New Year's menu "special dim sum" composed, for 16 euros, a "dim sum box" available in a classic or vegetarian version.
It includes a crispy egg roll, two "luobo gao" which are radish cakes typical of the New Year in southern China and 8 fried dumplings.
But the famous house roasted duck will also be part of the party with a "duck and bao box" (18 euros) which contains a quarter of a roasted duck to garnish four brioches accompanied by a formidable house sauce.
We will end with a “buffalo bao”, a special dessert made of a brioche topped with red beans in the shape of a buffalo, an animal symbol of perseverance!
72, quai de Jemmapes, Paris (10th district).
Phone.
01.73.75.16.26.
Take out, click and collect on
www.baofamily.co
and delivery on Deliveroo
Dumpling Queen: for its Taiwanese flavors
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This new address dedicated to take-out and delivery was inaugurated in mid-November.
Its specialties are “sheng jian bao” (6 or 8 euros) and “bian dang” (from 10 euros) Taiwanese style.
The former are small filled buns that are mostly found in street markets in southern China.
They are garnished with a soft farm pork or cabbage stuffing.
The second is a sort of Taiwanese-style meal tray comprising, in addition to sautéed vegetables and rice, either braised pork belly, marinated soft-boiled egg and pak choï cabbage, or grilled marinated chicken, honey / sesame sauce and tamagoyaki. (omelet) or braised eggplant, shiitake mushrooms and sautéed tofu.
Ideal to mark the occasion with a meal on a low budget.
22, rue de l'Échiquier, Paris (10th district).
Phone.
01.83.89.39.00 Take-away and delivery on www.mamahuhuparis.com
From February 11 to 13, Dicky To, chef of the Chinese restaurant at the Peninsula hotel, is offering, on the occasion of the Lunar New Year, a large menu combining Cantonese culinary art and fine French products.
It is made up of five dishes including a braised cod in cocote, hoisin sauce
(Editor's note Chinese version of BBQ sauce)
or even a delicious sautéed Charolais beef, cashew nuts and chili.
Available in Paris and in 22 neighboring municipalities, it is offered at 120 euros per person.
Expensive, but that's the price of excellence!
19, avenue Kléber, Paris (16th century).
Phone.
01.58.12.28.88.
For take out or delivery on the Peninsula website, by phone or at the e-mail address ppr@peninsula.com
In the heart of Chinatown in the 13th arrondissement, a priori, nothing distinguishes this Cantonese cuisine restaurant except the line of regulars that can be seen in front.
They all come there for specialties that they do not deviate from such as this homemade shrimp ravioli soup (10.50 euros) or its excellent rotisserie department watched over by the boss's father.
The lacquered duck with the crispy skin reveals a perfectly soft flesh.
It is much better than in many neighboring addresses.
And since you can buy it, on the spot, in half (14.50 euros) or whole (24.50 euros), it's a great idea for a Chinese New Year meal with the family.
An address that is both popular and honorable.
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32, avenue de Choisy, Paris (13th century). Tel.
01.45.86.42.40.
Take away on site or for delivery on Uber Eats
In this contemporary bistro in the colors of Asia, you don't really know if you are in China, Singapore or Japan.
But that's okay because we let ourselves be drawn into the cutting-edge cuisine of Adrien Ferrand and Galien Emery.
Among their creations to order for a very gourmet New Year, the emblematic "pig sushi" (11 euros) with their vinegared rice covered with a slice of candied meat lacquered with teriyaki sauce (soy, sugar, vinegar, spices) embellished with 'a mushroom in pickles and a hint of wasabi.
It explodes so hard in the mouth that we want more.
To be completed with a “shrimp cake” (14 euros) or a few “spice baos rolls” (5 euros) of the same ilk.
38, rue du Faubourg-Poissonnière, Paris (10th district). Tel.
01.45.81.51.56 Deliveries and take-away on www.brigadedutigre.fr
Mao Dumpling Bar: for its fun, unpretentious cuisine
Not recommended for fans of ultra-traditional Chinese cuisine, because Adrien Zheng has decided to have fun combining the culinary culture of the Middle Empire and Western influences.
For the New Year, in addition to an assortment of jiaozi ravioli (small stuffed wheat flour turnovers, 11 euros), he therefore launches the “Mao Dog” a kind of hot dog that he makes by rolling up a very traditional chive pancake. around a sausage!
Ditto for the dessert where the classic fried brioche will be coated with salted butter caramel ... It will also offer new special edition t-shirts from the house while each order will be accompanied by a red envelope such as the ones we see. traded in China for the holidays.
They will contain coupons for free meals or discounts!
28, rue de Saintonge, Paris (3rd arrondissement).
Take-out on site or delivery on Deliveroo and Uber Eats
Tsé Yang: for its special menu
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This very chic Chinese gourmet restaurant in the 16th arrondissement is launching into take-out and delivery.
In addition to its menu, it offers a special New Year's menu (45 euros, Tsingtao beer included).
This consists of a tasty sliced chicken with oriental spices, a smoked soy mille-feuille stuffed with mushrooms, sea bream fillets sautéed in a wok with crunchy vegetables accompanied by Cantonese rice and, to finish, of a coconut pearl with soy cream.
A downside for some vegetables that are not in season but the whole, including the dessert, is good and homemade.
25, avenue Pierre-Ier-de-Serbia, Paris (XVIth) Tel.
01.47.20.70.22.
www.tse-yang.fr Take-out and delivery.
Orders by phone.
The Hood: for a New Year in Hong Kong colors
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Big winner of the 2015 MasterChef edition, Chef Khan-Ly Huynh is at the head of this friendly canteen where she concocts small dishes influenced by all of Asia.
But, for the Chinese New Year and until February 27, in collaboration with the Hong Kong tourist office, she offers a typical dish from the former British colony called "Hong Kong cheerful rice" (20 euros).
This is a specialty composed of white rice, marinated and roasted pork loin, a perfect egg, braised pak choi and lotus pickles that will also be available in a vegetarian version.
In both cases, we can accompany it with a “Hong Kong Milk Tea” (12 euros).
Note that the first 100 orders will be offered a pretty bag with a travel guide and postcards ...
80, rue Jean-Pierre-Timbaud, Paris (Ier). Tel.
07.80.97.54.38.
Take-out and delivery on Deliveroo and Uber Eats
As a bonus for cooking enthusiasts:
Phaidon editions
"China: The Cookbook", a bible for Chinese cooking at home!
With its 650 recipes, this book is one of the most comprehensive ever made on Chinese cuisine.
They are short but well explained, with an indication of their region of origin.
By making about thirty without unpleasant surprises, we could see that they are on the whole fair.
Initiated by Kei Lum Chan and Diora Fong, a Hong Kong couple, considered authorities in the field, this book allows you to make familiar dishes like bittersweet pork ribs and dim sum or more original ones. , like the oyster pancake or the “smiling donuts”.
Phaidon editions, 720 pages, 45 euros.
