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With multiple locations in London, BAO is offering a Lunar New Year menu from January 20 to February 9, 2025. The menu includes prosperity tossing salad, honey-glazed pork, and longevity noodles, priced at £29 per person. Diners also receive red envelopes with snake-themed prizes. Many Chinese restaurant menus offer a bewildering amount of choice; at Three Uncles, there are just three roast meats (duck, pork, chicken), another trio of meat-topped lo-mein noodles, a handful We’ve pulled together some of the best Chinese New Year offerings to book in the capital for 2025. Cantonese fine dining restaurant Hakkasan always serves a showstopping Chinese New Year menu, alongside opulent decor and traditional lion dances. This year you can expect all the regalia that goes with Chinese New Year in London, from the beautiful red and gold hanging lanterns to the special craft and food stalls that pop up throughout the city’s Chinese quarter. Join London's most popular dim sum restaurant Ping Pong for an epic Chinese New Year celebration. From the 14th of January, you can awaken the snake within with a limited-edition menu that honours this year's zodiac symbol. Handmade Dim Sum and crafted cocktails await those who want to celebrate the Chinese New Year the Ping Pong way. For the Year of the Snake, Ping Pong will be offering a limited edition menu as their traditional Chinese favourites. Celebrate the new year early and head over for a ‘lazy Sumday’ – unlimited Dim Sum all day on Sundays. LUNAR NEW YEAR MENU: Canton Blue, the upmarket Cantonese restaurant in The Peninsula at Hyde Park Corner, becomes Canton Red to mark the celebratory season. The festive shake-up comes with a London's trio of Ivy Asias (Chelsea, Mayfair and St Paul’s) is welcoming Chinese New Year with a double whammy of a new weekday dim-sum menu and a special Lunar New Year set menu. A Wong (Victoria) - For one evening, A Wong is hosting a special 36-dish Chinese New Year banquet, paired with Dom Pérignon vintages. New dishes on this menu include tangerine fish with chiu chow beef broth, braised daikon and oscietra caviar. One of the best – and tastiest – ways to get involved with the celebrations from London is by trying one of the many great Lunar New Year menus and specials on offer. Here we highlight some of the best restaurants to visit in the capital for Chinese New Year 2024. Internationally renowned Cantonese restaurant Hakkasan always goes big on its Chinese New Year offering; for 2024 it’s offering a special menu across both its London branches. Hakkasan Hanway Place and Hakkasan Mayfair are launching a limited-edition menu alongside a celebratory cocktail, The Red Dragon, in collaboration with Moët & Chandon Best Chinese restaurants in London for the Lunar New Year, from JM Oriental to Min Jiang From Sichuan to Shaanxi, Hunan to Yunnan, Cantonese and everything in between The Standard's journalism is Peninsula London (Belgravia) - This new hotel will be having a special Lunar New Year Set Menu available at Canton Blue with dishes including steamed dumplings made with crab and scallops as well as drunken chicken with goji berries (7- 16th February, £168). They'll also have a lion and dragon dance in the hotel courtyard at 11am on 10 February. Expect acrobatic Lion and Dragon dances in Peninsula Square from 1.30pm, Firepit Art Gallery exhibitions celebrating Lunar New Year; hands-on workshops like woodblock printing, bamboo weaving and Chinese knot-making; live music from Eastern Margins DJs, and the Eternal Market - a vibrant Pan Asian showcase featuring contemporary and traditional fare, brimming with delicious food, unique crafts It’s the Year of the Rat, and we’ve rounded up the best places to celebrate Chinese New Year in London. By Natasha Patel. Hakkasan. Hakkasan will be celebrating Chinese New Year with a limited edition signature menu designed to reflect good health and fortune for the year ahead. Celebrate the Year of the Snake with a unique Lunar New Year Afternoon Tea at TĪNG, available from January 6th. Delight in exquisite pastries crafted to honor the traditions of the season, including the Red Serpent, a rich dark chocolate mousse with Sichuan pepper and yuzu; the Mandarin, a spiced milk chocolate mousse paired with mandarin, symbolizing luck and prosperity; and the Sakura, a London's Lunar New Year Parade is undoubtedly one of the best ways to welcome the Chinese New Year. The celebrations are the biggest of their kind outside of Asia and will see thousands of people flock to the streets to watch as colourful performers in lion and dragon outfits and vibrant floats cruise through the city streets. When is Chinese New Year celebrated in London? Chinese New Year, also known as the Lunar New Year, always falls between late January and mid-February. In 2025, Chinese New Year falls on 29 January. The 2025 Chinese New Year festival in central London, organised by the London Chinatown Chinese Association (LCCA), takes place on 1 and 2 February. The Chinese New Year Parade 2025 will celebrate the Year of the Snake on various dates across major cities. In Hong Kong, it’s on Jan 29. In London, it’s on February 2; Chicago’s on February 9; San Francisco’s on February 15; and New York City’s on February 16. Photo: JessicaGirvan, Shutterstock. London’s Chinatown well and truly comes alive, playing host to an annual Chinese Lunar New Year parade that’s not to be missed. . Starting on Duncannon Street, the festivities make their way up Charing Cross Road and past Leicester Square Station, before heading onto Shaftesbury Avenue where the par
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