Top 9 Chinese Picnic Side Dishes

This Chinese chicken salad 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 salad rolls 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 this Chinese 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 of this Chinese coleslaw 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 chicken 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 noodles dish.

These tea eggs are an unusual, popular snack that consists of hard boiled eggs simmered in tea and a combination of spices.

Chinese noodles in peanut sauce feature hakka noodles that are topped with a flavorful dressing and served with a vegetable garnish.