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Four Seasons Platter

By: 👩‍🦳 Linda · Published: 🖨 January 4, 2021 · Updated: 💻January 4, 2021 · 🗨 Leave a Comment

Make this Four Seasons Platter with amazing appetizers representing each season for your feasting centerpiece. Totally worth the effort!

An amazing Four Seasons Platter for your feasting centerpiece.

A Four Seasons Platter is a luxurious small bites platter usually served during a Chinese wedding banquet. The four different appetizers or hors d’oeuvres represent the four seasons of spring, summer, autumn, and winter. Sometimes 2 or more food items may be served to represent a season. In this case, there will be more than 4 varieties on the platter.

What dishes make up a season is up to the individual chef’s interpretation. Hence, no two different Four Seasons Platter are ever the same. Every restaurant has their own specialties and these can vary depending on how much a customer is willing to pay. Some platters are of course more luxurious and exquisite than others.

My Four Seasons Platter

With that said, here is my rendition of the Four Seasons Platter I made for our Chinese New Year dinner on Friday, February 16th. I think I may have unwittingly started a new Chinese New Year dinner tradition and the guys absolutely loved this platter of goodies. I am sure I will get requests for a repeat in the years ahead.

Spring Delights

For Spring I made two dishes. One of them are these Special Tri-Filling Spring Rolls. These are not your everyday spring rolls. Usually 3 to 4 different ingredients make up the filling to give it a beautiful cross section for an impressive display on the platter. In my Special Tri Filling Spring Rolls, I used egg omelet, crab sticks, and Jiu Hu Char (Stir Fry Jicama with Cuttlefish) as the filling.

Four Seasons Platter with Special Tri-Filling Spring Rolls to represent Spring.

The other dish representing Spring are these Pan Seared Butterfly Shrimp. I found these ready to use butterfly shrimp at the grocery store perfect for this purpose. It took me just a few minutes to prepare these tasty shrimp.

Juicy and succulent Pan Seared Butterfly Shrimp.

Summer Treats

I have always wanted to make Siu Mai (Shumai) and so I finally did as a representation for Summer in my Four Seasons Platter. They turned out really well and were juicy, succulent, and very tasty. The stuffing was a combination of ground pork, shrimps, and water chestnuts.

Four Seasons Platter with Siu Mai (Shumai) representing Summer.

Autumn Specialties

For Autumn, I decided on Lobak (Five-Spice Meat Rolls). These are also known as Ngoh Hiang in Melaka and Singapore. The ones seen here are a slightly different version than these ones because I finally found the right kind of bean curd sheets which were quite crispy when fried.

Four Seasons Platter with Lobak (Five-Spice Meat Rolls representing Autumn.

Winter Goodies

Crabs are a favorite representation of Winter. They are popularly made into crab meatballs or served as a cold creamy salad. Since I found some nice crab legs, I decided to separate the upper legs for another dish, leaving the pincers whole for this platter. I left it simple by boiling the claws with salt so as to be able to taste the sweet meaty flesh. You can chill these Boiled Crab Claws if preferred and serve them as is, with a squirt of lemon juice, or with your favorite seafood cocktail sauce.

Sweet, meaty, and succulent Boiled Crab Claws.

Four Seasons Platter – A Special Treat

I hope you’ll give this Four Seasons Platter a try. I know it is a lot of work but it is totally worth the effort. You can make the different components like the Special Tri-Filling Spring Rolls, Siu Mai (Shumai), and Lobak (Five-Spice Meat Rolls) ahead of time. The other two are relatively fast and easy.

Delicious Four Seasons Platter - a treat you don't want to miss!

NOTE: This post was originally published on February 21st, 2018.

Categories: 🗂 Appetizer & Snack, Asian, Chinese New Year, Pork, Seafood Tags: 📋 Chinese, crab

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