Slither into the Year of the Snake with these 14 yee sang platters in Singapore for Chinese New Year 2025.
Yu sheng or yee sang is a salad dish consisting of vegetables, fruits, and seasoning with raw fish, or ‘yusheng’ in Chinese. Typically consumed around the Lunar New Year, the ingredients are added consecutively while uttering auspicious phrases to welcome the new year. At the end, all the ingredients are tossed together to symbolise the abundance of long life and prosperity, a practice known as “lohei” in Cantonese.
As the palates of Singapore diners become more refined, so has the dish. Yee sang in 2025 now comes decked out with salmon, lobster, abalone, octopus, and arctic clam. Contemporary Sichuan restaurant Birds of a Feather gussies up its lo hei with edible flowers. Din Tai Fung introduces the dish to its signature crispy yam strips. Min Jiang’s rendition features pine nuts while Shang Palace fashions dragonfruit, Italian cucumbers, and mango into a serpent.
Other non-Chinese restaurants are putting their spin on yee sang for Lunar New Year 2025. Level33 showcases how leftovers from making beer can be additions to yee sang. Fat Cow ditches seafood for high-grade Japanese Wagyu. Canchita Peruvian Cuisine combines its lo hei with tacos. Bottega di Carna remixes the classic plum sauce dressing with Almafi lemons. Find out more below.
(Hero and featured images credits: The Fullerton Hotel Singapore; Shangri-La Singapore)
14 yee sang platters in Singapore for Lunar New Year 2025
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House-smoked Ora King Salmon from New Zealand stars in 5 On 25’s Signature Yusheng, with support from fried yam, candied nuts, and plum dressing. For more fortune, add on seafood like Canadian lobster, surf clam, and salted egg yolk fish skin. Alternatively, the vegetarian yee sang (from S$68) features ice plant, vegetarian bak kwa, and garden greens. Both yee sang comes in small (for three to six people) and large (seven to 10 diners) portions. Available for dine-in and takeaway (click here to order).
From S$88++
13 January 2025 to 12 February 2025
Daily, 11.30am – 2.30pm, 6pm – 10pm
(Image credit: Andaz Singapore)
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Octopus rarely shows up in lo hei, but contemporary Sichuan restaurant Birds of a Feather thinks otherwise. Its octopus yee sang features plump octopus legs that are sous-vide until tender and torched to seal in the flavour. The meat is sliced and served with green daikon, green radish, carrots, endives, microgreens, peanut crumbs, grapefruit, and edible flowers. A dressing of house-made yu xiang, ma hua flakes, and sweet chopped peanuts is served on the side. The yee sang is large enough for four people and available only for dine-in.
S$88++
24 January – 9 February 2025
Monday – Saturday, 12pm – 3pm, 6pm – midnight
Sunday, 12 pm – 3pm, 6pm – 10pm
(Image credit: Birds of a Feather)
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Bottega di Carna infuses Italian flair into its yee sang with an Almafi lemon plum sauce drizzled over salmon sashimi, zucchini, daikon, pickled radish, and pomelo. Up the indulgence with optional toppings of caviar, lobster, and scallop sashimi. The lo hei is available for dine-in only.
S$28++ per person
15 January – 12 February 2025
Daily, 7am – midnight
(Image credit: Mondrian Singapore Duxton)
Canchita celebrates the Cantonese immigrants who moved to Peru in 1849 and infused their culinary heritage with Peruvian spices and produce, and the Lo Hei & Crunchy Tacos exemplifies that. The dish is colourfully put together from fresh prawns, octopus, Peruvian sea urchin, and red snapper doused in Peruvian-Cantonese sauces and topped off with golden corn tortillas. The yee sang is available for dine-in only.
S$72++
1 – 31 January 2025
Monday – Thursday, 5.30pm – 10.30pm
Friday – Sunday, 11.30am – 3pm, 5.30pm – 10.30pm
(Image credit: Canchita Peruvian Cuisine)
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Cherry Garden has a dedicated yee sang menu with five variations of lo hei, from the Prosperity Yu Sheng topped with Arctic clam, house-cured salmon, and crispy fish skin to the Triumph Yu Sheng featuring an ensemble of premium ingredients including cooked lobster meat and hamachi. The yee sang comes in small and large portions and is available for both dine-in and takeaway (order here).
From S$78++
13 January – 12 February 2025
Monday – Friday, 12pm – 2.30pm, 6.30pm – 10.30pm
Saturday & Sunday, 11am – 1pm, 1.30pm – 3.30pm, 6.30pm – 10.30pm
(Image credit: Mandarin Oriental, Singapore)
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Take your pick from one of three yee sang by Din Tai Fung, from the crowd-favourite Abundance Abalone Yu Sheng with smoked salmon, julienned carrots, radish, and Din Tai Fung’s signature crispy yam strips, to the Prosperity Smoked Salmon Yu Sheng crowned with a generous sprinkle of sesame seeds and roasted peanuts, and a drizzle of plum sauce. They are joined by the Vegetarian Prosperity Yu Sheng, as well as additional toppings from fried salmon skin to abalone slices. The lo hei is available for takeaway and in all dine-in restaurants.
From S$53.80++
6 December 2024 – 12 February 2025
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Wagyu specialist restaurant Fat Cow has a beef yee sang for Lunar New Year 2025 – gyu sheng, if you will. It stars thin slices of Toriyama Umami Wagyu accompanied by ikura, chuka kurage (seasoned jellyfish), chuka wakame (seasoned sesame seaweed) and assorted vegetables such as julienned radish, Japanese cucumber, and carrots. The Signature Gyu Sheng is good for four to five people and available for dine-in only.
S$68++
22 January – 5 February 2025
Sunday – Thursday, 12pm – 3pm, 6pm – 10.30pm
Friday – Saturday: 12pm – 3pm, 6pm – 11pm
(Image credit: Fat Cow)
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Along with suckling pig and lobster, Golden Peony’s Chinese New Year 2025 menu showcases the Fortune Gold Flakes Yu Sheng. The dish is a luxurious take on lo hei with lobster, baby abalone, crispy whitebait, hokkigai (surf clams), fish skin, and fresh fruit, and is available for dine-in and takeaway (order here).
S$188++
2 January – 12 February 2025
Monday – Friday, 11.30am – 2.30pm, 6.30pm – 10.30pm
Saturday & Sunday, 11.30am – 3pm, 6.30pm – 10:30pm
(Image credit: Conrad Centennial Singapore)
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From The Fullerton Hotel’s Chinese restaurant, the Deluxe Edition “Sure Win” Yu Sheng slithers in with a snake made out of finely sliced vegetables, which sits on a bed of Norwegian smoked salmon, rose wine-marinated fresh abalone, and king prawn. It is finished with shallot oil, kumquat dressing, and Jade’s signature champagne jelly. It is joined by the Gold Rush Snake Yu Sheng, which is presented on a plate adorned with a Chinese calligraphy greeting and a snake illustration, both hand-painted by chef Leong Chee Yeng using five-spice powder.
From S$78++
13 January – 12 February 2025
Daily, 11.30am – 3pm, 6.30pm – 10.30pm
(Image credit: The Fullerton Hotel Singapore)
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Microbrewery Level33’s food menu features dishes made with ingredients leftover from the beer-brewing process, and it is no different with its yee sang. The dish highlights stout beer crisps and a lager-based dressing with edible flowers, spiced nuts, pomelo, and mandarin oranges, as well as raw slices of sustainably farmed, sashimi-grade Australian ocean trout and kingfish. The lo hei is good for four to six diners and only available for dine-in.
S$88++
2 – 30 January 2025
Daily, 12pm – 11pm
(Image credit: Level33)
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Min Jiang and Min Jiang at Dempsey have two large yee sang to welcome Lunar New Year 2025. The Prosperity Blessings Lo Hei showcases premium ingredients such as lobster, 6-head abalone, and salmon together with radish, cranberries, and pine nuts in a yuzu, calamansi, and apple jam marinate. The Auspicious Abundance Lo Hei has salmon sashimi, abalone, tobiko, shrimp, watermelon, and kiwi, accompanied by plum sauce. Both yee sangs are available for dine-in and takeaway (order here).
From S$268++
6 January – 12 February 2025
(Image credit: Goodwood Park Hotel)
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From Shang Palace, the Auspicious Snake Yu Sheng rears its mango head and coils with dragonfruit layered with green and yellow Italian cucumbers while surrounded by smoked salmon and jellyfish. The dish feeds six to eight people and is only available for dine-in at the restaurant, but Shangri-La has takeaway lo hei starring lobster, South African abalone, and crispy fish skin. Order here.
S$268++
13 January – 12 February 2025
Monday – Friday, 12pm – 2.30pm, 6pm – 10pm
Saturday & Sunday, 11am – 3pm, 6pm – 10pm
(Image credit: Shangri-La Singapore)
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Tajimaya Yakiniku has the Slithering Abundance Yusheng with fresh salmon slices placed to resemble a snake, topped with tobiko, and drizzled with tangy wafu plum sauce. The Floral Abundance Yusheng offers more variety of sashimi including salmon, tuna, and hamachi, which are arranged like a blooming flower. Both lo hei platters are available at Tajimaya Yakiniku’s Great World City and Vivocity outlets, as well as for takeaway (order here).
From S$108++
15 January – 12 February 2025
Monday – Thursday, 11.30am – 3pm, 5.30pm – 10pm
Friday – Sunday, 11.30am – 10pm
(Image credit: Tajimaya Yakiniku)
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Zui Teochew Cuisine adds some Chaoshan flavour to Chinese New Year with its Teochew Prosperity Yu Sheng. Available in portions from small to large, the lo hei has a rose-shaped centre made with red coral lettuce, which is encircled by red carrots and preserved radish – a key ingredient in Teochew cooking. Salmon, coriander, chilli slices, and plum sauce kickstart both the palate and prosperity for the new year. The yee sang is available for dine-in and takeaway (order here) at Zui Yu Xuan Teochew Cuisine and Chui Huay Lim Teochew Cuisine.
From S$48++
13 January – 16 February 2025
Daily, 11.30am – 2.30pm, 5.30pm – 11pm
(Image credit: Zui Teochew Cuisine)
