Lunar New Year festivities are in full swing across different cultures in Sydney right now, from Vietnamese Tet to Korean Seollal. Whether you’re after something sweet or savoury, traditional or modern, here are six specials from Malaysia to the Philippines to help you slither into the year of the snake well-fed and with full pockets. Siroo Rice Cake Sydney’s first-ever rice cake cafe is selling a range of traditional Korean treats for the Lunar New Year including yakgwa (a deep-fried cookie flavoured with honey, sesame and ginger) and gangjeong (deep-fried rice puffs) in various colours and flavours including black sesame.
While there, be sure to sit in to try their range of Korean rice cakes, mochi and bingsu loaded with seasonal fruit. Various locations, sirooricecakecafe.com Kariton The Filipino ice-cream chain has two Lunar New Year flavours going until February 2.
A gelato with a base flavour of the famous processed Laughing Cow cheese is mixed with jujube red velvet, candied goji berry and baijiu jelly. Their second flavour is a milk gelato, with pineapple jam and salted duck egg biscuits folded through. Spend more than $20 to receive a red envelope, some encasing prizes ranging from a free scoop to a free 5-litre tub of gelato.
Various locations , karitonsorbetes.com Pantry Story This popular bakery created quite the frenzy over its juicy char siu pie. This is the second year in a row they have sold this sticky sweet-savoury delight for the Lunar New Year, with po.