Top 9 Chinese Picnic Side Dishes

This recipe is easy to make – the only thing that takes any time is baking and shredding the chicken breast, which you can do earlier in the day. Leftovers taste great served in a wrap for lunch the next day.

This recipe is both healthy and easy to make – rice paper wrappers are softened in water and filled with an assortment of vegetables and rice noodles. The rolls are served with a spicy hoisin and peanut dipping sauce. Feel free to jazz up the basic recipe by adding leftover cooked beef, chicken, or small shrimp.

This Asian take on potato salad features a colorful assortment of vegetables such as bok choy, red bell pepper and green onion, and has a flavorful rice vinegar dressing. A reader comments that the rice vinegar dressing also goes nicely with lightly sauteed mixed greens.

Velvety red cabbage and emerald green bok choy are topped with a tart rice vinegar dressing.

Crispy egg rolls filled with bean sprouts, mushrooms, celery and pork. The recipe includes a number of egg roll cooking tips.

These flavorful egg rolls could make a meal in themselves. Marinated chicken breast is stir-fried and combined with sweet red bell pepper and other vegetables in an oyster-flavored sauce.

Egg noodles are tossed with a spicy dressing in this easy to make Szechuan dish.

This unusual, popular snack consists of hard boiled eggs simmered in tea and a combination of spices.

Hakka Noodles are topped with a flavorful dressing and served with a peanut and vegetable garnish.