New Year’s Eve dishes and festive gifts go on sale, making it easy to host a reunion dinner at home

With just one month left until the Lunar New Year, restaurants, convenience store chains, and hotel operators are gearing up to compete in the New Year’s Eve dishes market, offering luxurious and traditional menus to meet the festive demands. Whether you want to enjoy a sumptuous feast at home, just make a phone call or place an order online to have it conveniently delivered.

To show appreciation for moms who work tirelessly all year round, Taipei Fuhang Hotel has launched three set menus—“Fu Hu Prosperity,” “Fu Hu Good Fortune,” and “Fu Hu Best Wishes”—as well as a variety of festive dishes such as a “three-tiered Japanese-style lucky New Year’s meal,” German pork knuckle, and healthy red date and nut harvest cakes. These selections span authentic Jiangsu-Zhejiang, Taiwanese, Cantonese, Japanese cuisines, and Western dishes, allowing customers to easily take them away. No thawing is needed—just heat them up at home and immediately enjoy a “five-star New Year’s Eve dinner.”

This year, Fuhang Hotel’s takeout New Year’s dishes feature premium ingredients such as top-grade large shark fins, Mexican abalone, and Australian lobsters, presenting a lavish yet refined quality. Each “Fu Hu Prosperity” New Year’s set menu is priced at NT$6,888 (serves 6 people). Purchasing a set menu comes with a complimentary dessert and an elegant eco-friendly tote bag. Additionally, there are 46 à la carte dishes available, each priced between NT$360 and NT$7,888. Orders placed and paid for before January 20 that accumulate to NT$10,000 or more will receive an extra NT$500 dining voucher. For pre-orders, please call (02)2700-2323.

Taipei Far Eastern Hotel’s Pin Xiang Fang has prepared a variety of festive gifts and elegant gift baskets for customers to choose from before the New Year. This year, they specially recommend the “Milk Gold Ingot,” a dessert handcrafted into the shape of a golden ingot. Inspired by the restaurant’s perennial bestseller, the milk custard mooncake, its adorable design has already garnered strong pre-orders. Other New Year’s gifts include Gold Label XO sauce, assorted harvest cakes, water chestnut cakes, and sausages. For reservations, please call (02)2378-8888, extension 5867.

For those looking to try something different, the Tai Ping Tian Guo catering group has specially launched the “Tai Ping Tian Guo Nine-Tiered Golden Fortune New Year’s Dishes,” featuring authentic Thai specialties to offer a taste of international New Year cuisine. The nine dishes showcase the “sour and spicy” flavors of Thailand, enhanced with refreshing and healthy Thai ingredients such as galangal, lemongrass, and kaffir lime leaves. The menu includes cold seafood salad, Thai-style iron plate tofu, coconut chicken, green curry seafood, and spicy sour seafood soup. Tai Ping Tian Guo is now accepting pre-orders, with promotions including a special discounted price of NT$3,588 for the nine-dish combo set, a choice of any five dishes from the nine for NT$1,988, and discounted prices on various à la carte takeout New Year’s dishes.

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