Expert Tips for Styling a Stunning Chinese Dinner Party

Planning a Chinese dinner party? Discover the secrets to styling a stunning tablescape that will leave your guests in awe with these expert tips.

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Expert Tips for Styling a Stunning Chinese Dinner Party

Also known as the Spring Festival, Chinese New Year, celebrates the arrival of spring and marks the start of the new year on the traditional Chinese calendar.

And after a long, cold, and gloomy winter, I can think of no better way to welcome the arrival of spring than with a party!

So, in the spirit of the recent Chinese New Year celebration, I’m joining my friends from supper club to share my expert tips for styling a stunning Asian-inspired tablescape for a Chinese Dinner Party.

Table of Contents

• Welcome to Supper Club
• Choosing the Right Theme and Colors for Your Chinese Dinner Party
• Affordable Chinese Dinner Party Decor Ideas
• Tips for Styling a Beautiful Asian-Inspired Dinner Table
• Designing a Gorgeous Floral Centerpiece for Your Chinese Dinner Party
• Adding Special Details to Your Party Decor
• Don’t Miss These Recipes and Party Ideas from Midwest Life and Style
• Toasting an Unforgettable Chinese Dinner Party
• More Chinese Dinner Party Inspiration
• Pin and Save it for Later!

Welcome to Supper Club

If you’re new to our supper club or this is your first time visiting here at MWLS, welcome!

I always look forward to these virtual dinner parties, and I know they’ve become a reader favorite too!

For each party, I team up with my friends Rachel, Stacy, Ann, AnnMarie, and Michele to bring you a dose of table styling inspiration, hosting tips, and mouthwatering recipes—all tied together by a theme.

We held our first party back in January 2021 and after more than 3 dozen celebrations, we’re still going strong!

If you like to entertain too, I would love to have you subscribe and join the MWLS family.

When you do, you’ll get all the latest tablescapes, seasonal DIYS, party menus, and more sent right to your inbox.

And, If you’ve missed out on any of our past supper club parties, don’t worry! You can catch up on all the inspiration here.

Choosing the Right Theme and Colors for Your Chinese Dinner Party

When it comes to styling the table for your Chinese dinner party, it starts with choosing the perfect colors.

To make my table setting feel as authentic as possible, I drew inspiration from Asian-inspired decor paired with traditional Chinese colors like red and gold.

I learned that the rich red and gold hues aren’t just beautiful, but they’re also deeply symbolic in Chinese culture, representing luck, prosperity, and success.

While looking for red and gold decor to style my Chinese dinner party tablescape, I stumbled on these red fringed napkins in my linen collection.

I honestly forgot about them and was thrilled when I found them in the bottom drawer of my antique dresser.

The dresser is where I keep most of my napkins, tablecloths, and chargers for special parties like this, and it is always the first place I look before purchasing anything new.

Affordable Chinese Dinner Party Decor Ideas

When I think about Asian-inspired decor, bamboo, and lanterns are the first things that come to mind.

And Guess what?

I found some bamboo leaf fans from a Hawaiian luau party I hosted a few summers ago and these beautiful woven lanterns that were from a summer garden party tablescape.

They turned out to be the perfect touches for my table setting.

Party Planning Pro Tip: Save some money on decor by shopping your home first! Look around for items you already have on hand that can be re-purposed or double as decorations for your Chinese dinner party

When setting the table for your Chinese dinner party, consider creating layers at each place setting to enhance visual interest by blending various colors, patterns, textures, and materials.

To style my tablescape, I began by draping a crisp white tablecloth over our dining room table.

Next, I placed round woven chargers at each place setting, followed by these white dishes with beautiful beaded rim detail.

For a pop of color, I layered red fringed napkins between the dinner and salad plates and topped each place setting with bamboo hand fans.

Additionally, I found this gorgeous coral fabric with red accents, which I made into DIY napkins, placing one on top of each bamboo fan to tie everything together.

Of course, you can’t host a Chinese dinner party without some chopsticks!

I fell in love with these pretty gold chopsticks that perfectly match my favorite gold silverware.

Finally, to finish my tablescape, I opted for simple cocktail glasses along with these pretty pink ribbed tumblers.

Together, they brought a touch of sophistication and charm to the final look of the table

Designing a Gorgeous Floral Centerpiece for Your Chinese Dinner Party

In China, meals are usually served family-style, with a variety of dishes placed in the center for everyone to share.

So, with that in mind, it’s best to create a centerpiece you can quickly remove from the table when it’s time to eat!

Enter my favorite way to create a showstopping centerpiece—fresh flowers!

With so many colors and varieties, flowers are the perfect option for styling a centerpiece that looks expensive but isn’t.

I grabbed a bouquet of fresh flowers from the grocery store to create a DIY floral arrangement for my Chinese table setting.

(Pro tip—grocery store flowers are the best and often very affordable!)

I opted for blooms in bright shades of pink, yellow, red, and coral to complement the color scheme of my party.

Then, I arranged my flowers in a small vase of water and placed the arrangement in the center of a larger cylinder vase.

In Chinese culture, oranges symbolize good fortune and abundance, so I added sliced oranges around the inside of the larger vase for an extra pop of color.

I think it turned out beautifully, don’t you?

Party Planning Pro Tip: Want to know a secret for helping your flowers look fresher for longer? Use clippers or sharp scissors to cut your stems at a 45-degree angle under running water. The angled cut lets your flowers soak up more water, ensuring they stay vibrant and beautiful.

I hope these helpful tips inspire you to get creative and style your own tablescape for an unforgettable party!

Because you don’t have to wait until the next Chinese New Year to host a fun and festive dinner party of your own.

As always, don’t forget to see the rest of my friends’ creative tables and hosting tips too.

You can see all the posts linked below!

Feel free to leave any questions or comments below, and don’t forget to pin this post to save it for later.

Cheers!

More Chinese Dinner Party Inspiration

I’ve teamed up with my friends from our virtual supper club to share even more ideas and inspiration with you for planning and hosting a Chinese dinner party.

Simply click on the links below to see more Asian-inspired tablescapes.

Vintage Home Designs | Bricks ‘n Blooms

The Ponds Farmhouse | Simply 2 Moms