Emirates Celebrates Chinese New Year with Curated Menus

Celebrating Lunar New Year on the 29 January and heralding the year of the snake, Emirates customers can embrace the luck of the season with curated menus in Emirates lounges in Dubai, Singapore, Bangkok, Shanghai, Beijing and Hong Kong, 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.

Delicious desserts and lucky red envelopes

From 28 January to 3 February, Emirates customers 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, and a creamy taro coconut sago with sweetened fruits and red beans in Economy Class.

Across some routes, customers in all classes will also receive a traditional red envelope filled with chocolate coins, to share the prosperity of the new year.

EmiratesRED Love & Luck Sale 

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

Mandarin and Cantonese movies on ice

Onboard Emirates, customers travelling for 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 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.

Celebrate Lunar New Year in Emirates’ Lounges

To celebrate the Lunar New Year, Emirates Lounges in Dubai will offer an array of festive fare on the 29 of January. 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 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, opan-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 Singapore, customers 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 symbolising good fortune.

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.

In the Emirates Lounge in Beijing, customers 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, customers will be enticed by 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.

All Emirates customers are welcome to enjoy Emirates' Lounges; First Class and Business Class customers can access all lounges on a complimentary basis, as well as Silver, Gold and Platinum Skywards members. Other passengers can experience the lounge starting from US$125, enjoying the facilities for up to four hours before a flight.