Emirates Celebrates CNY in Style

Emirates passengers can celebrate the Lunar New Year on 29 January with curated menus in Emirates lounges and red envelopes on selected flights.

To celebrate the Lunar New Year, Emirates lounges in Dubai will offer an array of festive fare on 29 January. Breakfast in the First and Business Class lounges will feature a classic ‘Cheung Fun’ steamed rice noodle roll stuffed with dried prawns and scallops.

At lunch and dinnertime, First Class lounge customers can indulge in a soya glazed beef short ribs from the à la carte menu, while both First and Business Class customers 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. Customers can head to the unique old-fashioned Emirates ice-cream cart to enjoy limited edition gourmet Matcha green tea ice cream, made in-house by Emirates chefs.

In the Emirates Lounge in Bangkok, customers will be enticed by 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 a dash of sweet orange cream.

Emirates Lunar New Year

In the Emirates Lounge of Hong Kong, Lunar New Year dishes will include scallops with broccoli, sea moss and shiitake mushrooms, and traditional rice dumplings in fragrant osmanthus flower soup.

From today until 3 February, Emirates customers on routes between Dubai and Beijing, Guangzhou, Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh, Hong Kong, Kuala Lumpur, Shanghai, Singapore and Taipei will also be treated to a specially crafted Lunar New Year dessert – luscious lychee, rose and raspberry mousse cake, with pâte sablée and white chocolate in First, Business, and Premium Economy Class, and a creamy taro coconut sago with sweetened fruits and red beans in Economy Class. Across select routes, customers in all classes will receive a traditional red envelope filled with chocolate coins, to share the prosperity of the new year.

Emirates’ inflight customers are also invited to celebrate the season of giving with the EmiratesRED onboard sale 28 January – 28 February 2025) during which customers can purchase two or more specially marked items and receive an additional 10% discount on a selection of popular duty-free products. EmiratesRED also has an exclusive inflight discount of US$15, when a customer buys two fragrances.

Onboard Emirates, customers travelling for the Lunar New Year can get into the holiday spirit with up 22 Mandarin and 13 Cantonese movies including Ride On, All Shall Be Well, Table for Six 2 and We Are Family. Emirates’ ice entertainment system offers more than 350 Hollywood movies with Chinese subtitles to explore, including new releases Venom: The Last Dance, Wolfs and Lee. Customers can also get in the festive mood with a music library of 115 Chinese albums and 1,000 songs

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Nick Walton

Nick Walton is Group Managing Editor of Artemis Communications, a leading boutique magazine and content solution company and publisher of The Art of Business Travel. A former travel editor of the South China Morning Post, he heads up the group's travel and lifestyle magazines, which include Alpha Men Asia, The Edition, Mirandus, Ikhlas, The Journal and Explorer Magazine.