Chinese New Year Specials?

[samovar32]

Are there any places worth visiting that do specials for Chinese New Year? Our staple is Shangri-La in Belmont, but prior experience simply suggests bigger crowds with the standard menu for Chinese New Year.

[lipoff]

Just went to Jo Jo Taipei yesterday for bunch where we encountered their special new year's menu as well. Their special menu included an appetizer, the Seafood Treasure Soup. Then there were these entrees:

Duck Feet in Spicy Chili Oil (cold)
Homemade Cured Pork and Smoked Sausage Platter
Hundred Angle's Shrimp Balls
Twin Lobster in Ginger and Scallion Sauce
Roast Lamb with Bean Curd Sheet and Napa Vegatable
Sugar Cane Smoked Chicken (cold)
Mustard Green Vegetables with Black Mushrooms and Dried Scallops
Whole Fish in Sweet and Sour Sauced with Pine Nuts
Buddha's Delight
Jo Jo Peking Duck
Roasted Belly Pork with Green Vegetables (Dongpo Pork)

And two special desserts:

Eight Treasure Sticky Rice
Red Bean and Purple Rice Porridge

We had the Sugar Cane Smoked Chicken with brunch and it was wonderful. Strong flavor from the smoking, high quality chicken, and what a great aroma. I saw the Dongpo rou at a neighboring table and it looked like a real serious version of this famous dish. I plan to return soon to try their Peking duck.

[Aromatherapy]

FuLoon has a short list of specials, including the braised pork belly and the eggplant w/raw garlic served at the recent chowdown. Authentic something or other green beans, and Sichuanese chicken. I forget the others.

[barleywino]

you might do better at Shanghai Gate in Allston, for New Years they have a short list of specials, including a very nice cod filet w/ kumquat in rice wine sauce, hot pot w/ dungeness crab and shrimp, as well as their usual ti-pang (braised pork shoulder), Shanghai stir-fried shrimp, nian gao (stir fried rice cake), xiao long bao (soup dumplings) etc. They list a whole deep fried squirrel fish but have not tried it there. Mulan has a list of New Years specials as well although I didn't see any that were particularly outstanding.

[nasilemak]

Penang in chinatown is offering Yee Sang for the very first time. It's a Malaysian/Singaporean new year salad with around 20 ingredients (including raw fish) best shared with a group of people.

[teezeetoo]

I'm fond of the whole fish in hot bean sauce that Mary Chung's has on New Year's and the dry squid and pork. Don't know if they do a New Year's banquet.