Chinese Themed Dinner Night Ideas

Hosting a Chinese Dinner themed party is a great way to enjoy spending time with your family and friends. Even if you are not planning on a party just have a chinese dinner night at home. The whole family can pitch in with the food and decorations.

One of the main decisions that need to be made for your Chinese themed dinner night is what food to serve. There are a lot of great choices here. Some popular Chinese food choices you can serve are egg drop soup, sesame noodles, fried rice and sweet and sour chicken. There are plenty of great recipes you can find online to fit your menu. Another alternative, if you don't wish to cook on the Chinese themed dinner night is to order take out. You can always transfer the food to your own dishes.

Beverages and desserts are also an important part of your Chinese themed dinner night. You could serve coconut ice cream and cream cheese filled wontons. Beverages could just about be anything you would like to serve. Sodas, tea and coffee would be fine.

Another fun aspect in planning your Chinese themed dinner night is the decorations. Depending on how much you wish to spend there are several ideas for decorations. If your budget allows you can go to your local party store and get some great Chinese decorations there. You can get paper lanterns, fans, and oriental paperware. Don't forget the chopsticks.

A fun idea is to have your dinner guest eat on the floor sitting on pillows. This should all depend who your dinner guests will be and if they would enjoy eating in such a way.

Nice and inexpensive party favors would be nice touch to give to all of your dinner guests. Ideas could be an oriental fan for each guest or a small votive candle. You can also check your local party store for Chinese themed party favors.

You could send your dinner invitations on postcards from China. You can find them online all you have to do is a search for them. You can tell your guests to wear their favorite oriental outfit.

A fun thing you could also do is to write each guests name on a placecard, both in English and Chinese. You could even learn how to pronounce their names in Chinese.

Chinese themed dinner nights are a lot of fun. It is a great way to bring your family and your friends together for a fun night. You may can come up with several of your own ideas for a fun Chinese dinner party.