🐅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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London is perhaps the perfect pub city. There’s a boozer for almost every kind of person. We’ve tried and tested inns, taverns and pubs across the city to bring you a list of the very finest.
A wonderful place to take your main (or future) squeeze, @ivyhousenunhead has comfortable furnishings, private booths and Moth Club-esque stage
🍻9. The Salisbury Hotel
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An unimaginable tragedy hit west London five years ago when Grenfell Tower caught fire. Against that terrible backdrop, these five men and women have achieved amazing things. Here are their stories 👇
🥊Heavyweight boxer David Adeleye used to train at a gym in Grenfell Tower. In 2019, he turned pro and, eight fights in, he remains undefeated
'I knew people who lived in Grenfell – we’re all connected. We lost Tony in the fire: he was the father of three boys who trained with us, and a big part of the gym. He used to come on trips with us, make sure all the kids were being looked after'
Netflix’s new Marilyn Monroe movie Blonde has been slapped with an NC-17 rating, or an 18 in UK terms, for sexually explicit content, making it the first release on the streamer to be given the adult-only certification
Monroe’s on-screen depictions have typically been fairly chaste (see Michelle Williams in My Week With Marilyn), but the bombshell really goes off in Blonde, which is sure to drive clicks and generate headlines in the run-up to its debut in the world’s living rooms
In another massive blow for London’s endlessly suffering commuters, rail union the RMT has announced three days of train strikes for the capital, on Tuesday June 21, Thursday June 23 and Saturday June 25. Weird days to choose, you might think
Well, in the spirit of the recent threat to disrupt the Platinum Jubilee weekend celebrations, these days have not been chosen at random, but to coincide with people travelling to Glastonbury Festival and to an England v New Zealand test match
Have you ever spotted a small green hut while walking through the city and wondered what it’s all about? These curious little sheds are rare pieces of London history that have survived against the odds
Cabmen’s shelters were first built in the nineteenth century to stop cabbies from getting pissed on the job. Back then the capital’s cabbies drove horse-drawn carriages which meant that while the customer got a seat inside the carriage, the drivers were exposed to the elements
A trip to Oxford Street used to mean getting a blow-dry at the big Topshop, drenching yourself in House of Fraser sample perfume, then CD-browsing in HMV. Not anymore. The once-leading shopping destination is now home to a mish-mash of American candy stores and souvenir shops
Even the iconic His Master’s Voice sign has been covered up and transformed into Candy World. Windows are filled with stacks of Cheetos, super-size Oreos and Jolly Ranchers, while Capital FM blasts obnoxiously into the street