With the Lunar New Year celebrations kicking off the year of the snake on January 29, 2025, Emirates customers will be treated to a range of gift and culinary treats onboard, while several of its airport lounges will also be embracing the celebrations with their own Lunar New Year themed menu items.
From January 28 to February 3, 2025, Emirates passengers traveling on routes between Dubai and Beijing, Guangzhou, Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh, Hong Kong, Kuala Lumpur, Shanghai, Singapore, and Taipei will be offered a specially crafted Lunar New Year-themed dessert. The dish, a lychee, rose, and raspberry mousse cake, with pâte sablée and white chocolate, will be available to all passengers flying in Emirates’ first, business, and premium economy cabins on these routes. In economy class, a taro coconut sago with sweetened fruits and red beans will appear on the menu.
Additionally, on some limited routes, subject to availability, customers in all classes will also receive a traditional red envelope filled with chocolate coins, as a way “to share the prosperity of the new year,” says the airline. Meanwhile, in the carrier’s lounges located in Dubai, Singapore, Bangkok, Shanghai, Beijing, and Hong Kong, Emirates customers will be able to partake in specially curated menus to celebrate the Lunar New Year.
In the Emirates lounges at Dubai International Airport on January 29, 2025, breakfast in the first and business class lounges will feature a classic Chinese 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 select poached shrimp and vegetable dumplings with soy and vinegar dip, Chinese rainbow salad with smoked salmon, sesame and soya ginger dressing, or pan-seared Chilean seabass with XO sauce and pak choy.
Dessert choices will include a strawberry lychee cake or black sesame cake in the first class lounge in Dubai, with a yuzu tartlet served with green tea powder available in the business class Lounges. Customers will also be able to try a limited-edition Matcha green tea ice cream, made in-house by Emirates chefs.
In the Emirates Lounge in Singapore, customers can celebrate the day with unique Lunar New Year dishes such as juicy king prawns infused with fragrant soya, pan-fried duck with lemon sauce, or orange almond crumble cake, with oranges symbolizing good fortune in Chinese cultures.
In other Emirates lounges across East Asia, customers will be offered Chinese-themed dishes such as chicken soup with goji berry, assorted dim sum, steamed chicken in a tangy ginger soy sauce, or stir-fried beef in black pepper sauce, sweet and sour Kung pao prawn dish. Other offerings include beef dumplings, sweet and sour mandarin seabass dish accented with pineapple cubes and pines nuts, or wok-fried beef strips in a tempting black pepper sauce.
Dessert choices will include dessert of orange mousse cake or orange cake served with a dash of sweet orange cream, Eight Treasure rice with lotus seeds, red dates, and osmanthus flowers, and traditional rice dumplings in fragrant osmanthus flower soup.
On board Emirates flights, customers traveling for the Lunar New Year will have the choice of 22 Mandarin and 13 Cantonese movies to select from. Emirates’ inflight entertainment system (‘ICE’) also offers more than 350 Hollywood movies with Chinese subtitles, while customers can also embrace the holiday spirit with a music library of 115 Chinese albums and 1,000 songs.
