China's most famous triplets - three adorable pandas - have celebrated the Lunar New Year with plenty of delicious food.

Meng Meng, Shuai Shuai and Ku Ku were given bamboo shoots, bamboo leaves and carrots to munch on by keepers.

But their favourite seemed to be specially prepared buns made with cornbread and shaped after dumplings and gold ingots, according to a report from China Central Television Station.

Meng Meng, Shuai Shuai and Ku Ku enjoy their snacks to celebrate the Lunar New Year

The three bears are the world's only panda triplets and live in a safari park in Guangzhou, China

Two of them play with each other as they meet the public to celebrate the Lunar New Year

After finishing their holiday feast, the cuddly triplets met the public at the Chimelong Safari Park in Guangzhou, according to the report.

The three bears, one elderly sister and two younger brothers, were born on July 29, 2014, at the park in southern China.

They were the world's first healthy panda triplet cubs.

The pandas are three and a half years old now and are the world's only surviving panda triplets, according to Chinese media.

The three pandas' favourite snack this year seems to be specially prepared buns made with cornbread and shaped after dumplings and gold ingots (pictured)

Too cute to bear: The pandas are at a public event at five months old in December, 2014

The triplets spend time with their mother at Chimelong Safari Park in February, 2015

Meng Meng, Shuai Shuai and Ku Ku play together at Chimelong Safari Park in December, 2014

Their names, Meng Meng, Shuai Shuai and Ku Ku, mean cute, handsome and cool in English.

This Chinese Lunar New Year would be the last new year the pandas spend together as they are due to be sent to different locations to live in 2018.

The triplets were born within four hours of each other and weighed between eight ounces and 12 ounces.

Keepers present the 30-day-old triplets to the public in Guangzhou, Guangdong Province

Ju Xiao, their 11-year-old mother was impregnated with sperm from a panda living at a Guangzhou zoo and was given round-the-clock care during the final weeks of her pregnancy.

When a panda cub is first born, it is pink, blind and toothless, weighing only 90 to 130 grams (3.2 to 4.6 ounces) - a mere one eight-hundredth of its mother's weight.

A month after birth, the colour pattern of the cub's fur is fully developed.