Emirates celebrates Lunar New Year with onboard menu updates
Emirates Lunar New Year celebrations onboard
Emirates passengers can celebrate the Lunar New Year on January 29, heralding the year of the snake, with curated menus in Emirates lounges in Dubai, Singapore, Bangkok, Shanghai, Beijing and Hong Kong. They can enjoy traditional “red envelopes” shared inflight on select routes and relax into the holidays with an array of blockbuster movies onboard, including a selection in Mandarin and Cantonese.
From January 28 to February 3, Emirates passengers on routes between Dubai and Beijing, Guangzhou, Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh, Hong Kong, Kuala Lumpur, Shanghai, Singapore and Taipei will be treated to a specially crafted dessert - luscious lychee, rose and raspberry mousse cake, with pâte sablée and white chocolate in First, Business and Premium Economy Class. A creamy taro coconut sago with sweetened fruits and red beans will be served in Economy Class. Across some routes, passengers in all classes will also receive a traditional red envelope filled with chocolate coins, to share the prosperity of the new year.
Emirates passengers travelling for Lunar New Year can get into the holiday spirit with up to 22 Mandarin and 13 Cantonese movies including Ride On, All Shall Be Well, Table for Six 2 and We Are Family. Emirates’ ice IFE offers more than 350 Hollywood movies with Chinese subtitles to explore, including new releases Venom: The Last Dance, Wolfs and Lee. Passengers can also get in the festive mood with a music library of 115 Chinese albums and 1,000 songs.
Lunar New Year in Emirates lounges
To celebrate the Lunar New Year, Emirates Lounges in Dubai will offer an array of festive fare on January 29. Breakfast in the First and Business Class lounges will feature a classic “Cheung Fun” steamed rice noodle roll stuffed with dried prawn and scallops. At lunch and dinnertime, First Class lounge passengers can indulge in a soya glazed beef short ribs from the à la carte menu, while both First and Business Class travellers can enjoy scrumptious poached shrimp and vegetable dumplings with soy and vinegar dip, or Chinese rainbow salad with smoked salmon, sesame and soya ginger dressing, or pan-seared Chilean seabass with XO sauce and pak choy. Desserts include a sweet and light strawberry lychee cake or black sesame cake in the First Class lounge, with a tangy yuzu tartlet served with green tea powder available in the Business Class Lounges.
In the Emirates Lounge in Singapore, travellers can celebrate the day with tasty Lunar New Year dishes like juicy king prawns infused with fragrant soya, pan fried duck with lemon sauce, followed by orange almond crumble cake, with oranges symbolizing good fortune.
In the Emirates Lounge in Bangkok, travellers can enjoy chicken soup with the earthy notes of goji berry, assorted dim sum, steamed chicken in a tangy ginger soy sauce or stir-fried beef in black pepper sauce, followed by a dessert of orange mousse cake or roll orange cake served with sweet orange cream.
In the Emirates Lounge in Beijing, passengers can indulge in a sweet and sour Kung pao prawn dish, enjoy the rich savoury flavour of beef dumplings, and celebrate the season with a sweet treat of Eight Treasure rice with lotus seeds, red dates and osmanthus flowers.
In the Emirates Lounge of Shanghai, travellers can try a sweet and sour mandarin seabass dish accented with pineapple cubes and pines nuts, or wok fried beef strips in a tempting black pepper sauce, a nourishing chicken soup with wild mushroom and cordyceps flowers, followed by a raspberry mousse cake.
In the Emirates Lounge of Hong Kong, China, Lunar New Year dishes will include scallops with broccoli, sea moss and shiitake mushrooms, and traditional rice dumplings in fragrant osmanthus flower soup.
