Featuring special set-menu dinners at London’s best Chinese restaurants, historic walks and workshops 🌙
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🐅Learn about Chinatown Stories on the ‘Community-led walking tour’
Join China Exchange on a guided tour through the streets and gates of Chinatown. Learn about this unique part of London and its heritage. The walk will be followed by a family-style lunch at a Chinese restaurant
🐅See the tiger lanterns at the Light Festival at Battersea Power Station
In celebration of the Year of the Tiger, the giant lanterns, which are made from recycled materials and low energy LED lights, will be on display from January 13 until February 27
🐅Celebrate Chinese New Year at MiMi Mei Fair
From January 24 to February 15, guests can dine under a traditional Chinese wishing tree decked out in beautiful peonies, chrysanthemums and kumquats, which are a symbol of good fortune, wealth and prosperity
🐅Explore London’s best dim sum restaurants
London’s dim sum restaurants offer traditional buns, dumplings and rolls as well as renegade riffs on the classics. And not just in Chinatown: you can sample London’s yum cha scene from a luxe west London hotel to a hip East End joint
🐅Get creative at this free lai see canvas workshop
Take part in personalising 88 red envelopes. If you can’t make the workshops, you can pick up the special red pockets at the Steam Room shop where they will be displayed. All proceeds go to Hackney Chinese Community Services
🐅Try Bao’s cute tiger bun and win prizes
From January 28 to February 13, when you eat at any Bao branch and order one of its lucky classic or daikon buns you will automatically receive a mysterious red envelope with a prize inside
🐅Order a Chinese New Year bundle from Old Chang Kee
This finish at home kit includes ‘pull-apart’ buns, signature chicken curry, a portion of curry sauce, chicken curry puffs with eggs, veggie curry potato puffs and a jar of sambal chilli. There’s 50% off delivery until Feb 28
🐅Enjoy ‘The Tiger Who Came For Tea’ afternoon tea at Bun House
Bun House has shaken up the classic afternoon tea with pillowy soft themed buns, including a cute savoury tiger bun and a calligraphy bun, alongside smaller sweet and savoury snacks and traditional Chinese teas
🐅Order a Chinese New Year Shanghai Supper takeaway
The six-course finish-at-home dinner features Shanghainese flavours such as drunken corn-fed chicken thighs, kaofu, dried mushrooms, soy-braised Iberico pork, rice cake with Chinese cabbage, pork and pickled mustard leaves
🐅Banquet at A.Wong
This feast is based on the Confucian ritual of grouping in fives. Dishes include seared black lamb with chilli and peanuts; cherry smoked memories of Peking duck, plum, caviar and smoked wrap; and cod cheek with fermented chilli and scalded Chinese chives
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