Tag: Chinese New Year

Lunar New Year Cup

Lunar New Year Cup
Date: 4pm, 5 February, 2019
Venue: HK Stadium
Tickets: $480, $280, $180 from Cityline
More info:
4pm – Shandong Luneng Taishai FC v Auckland City FC
18:15pm – Hong Kong CNY Selection Team v Sagan Tosu

Macau Chinese New Year Celebrations

Macau’s Year of the Rooster celebrations involve, unsurprisingly, the God of Wealth. There’s a 14 float parade that will wend its way through the city on two separate evenings (30 Jan, 4 Feb). Performers and singers from Macao, Hong Kong and China will provide the entertainment. A massive fireworks display caps festivities on the 30th January.

Macau Year of the Rooster Parade
Date: 8pm, 30 January & 4 February, 2017
Venue: Macao Science Center to Sai Van Lake Square (30 Jan), Rua de Norte do Patane to Iao Hon Market Park (4 Feb)
Tickets: Free

Year of the Rooster Parade Float Exhibition
Date: 30 January – 12 February, 2017
Venue: Sai Van Lake Square & Tap Siac Square
Tickets: Free

Macau Year of the Rooster Firework Display
Date: 9:45pm, 30 January, 2017
Venue: Macau Tower Seafront
Tickets: Free

Lunar New Year Discount MTR Fares on 9-10 February

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Travel this Lunar New Year is cheaper as the MTR reduce fares. On the 9 and 10 February adult Octopus holders will enjoy child concessionary fares and holders of other octopus card will pay just $1 per journey.

Other existing MTR discounts such as the Interchange Discount, the Fare Saver Discount and the 25% discount for connecting journeys with the Monthly Pass Extra etc will still function – unless the resulting fare is $0. There are no completely free trips.

The main exclusions for the discounted Lunar New Year travel are the Airport Express, MTR Feeder Bus, journeys to or from Lo Wu and Lok Ma Chau stations and East Rail Line First Class Premium.

Full Terms and Conditions here: http://www.mtr.com.hk/en/customer/main/cny_festive_discount_2016.html

Megabites: BrewDog, Butchers Club, Khana Khazana

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BrewDog
Craft beer brewery BrewDog opens it’s second bar in Asia on the 4 February at 19 Hollywood Road, Central. The bar is the 45th for this fast expanding brewery which only tapped it’s first pint in 2007. BrewDog UK staff Neil and Lucy, in town to supervise the opening, are passionate craft beer advocates and the ethos of producing quality beers has – taste them yourself to see if you agree or not – survived the rapid scaling of volumes over the last eight years.

BrewDog Hong Kong has 14 beers on draft including regulars like their signatures Punk IPA (5.4%), Elvis Juice (6.7%) Jackhammer (7.2%) and experimentals like the delicious AB:19 (13.1%). The beers are served in UK pint, 2/3 pint, half pint and 1/3 pint glasses. A UK pint is 568ml compared to an American ‘pint’ which is 473ml and a Hong Kong ‘pint’ which can be as small as 335-385ml. When asked why the different serving sizes… it’s about keeping the quality of the beer. A customer won’t drink a glass of AB:19 at 13.1% in the same way as they’ll drink a pint of Punk…

There’s a range of food including delicious french dip sandwiches, lamb cheese fondue, jalapeno cheese bread and glazed donuts to be enjoyed with your beer.
BrewDog: 19 Hollywood Road, Central. Tel: 2219 9905 www.facebook.com/BrewDogHK

Fei Jai Burger

Fei Jai Burger
For Chinese New Year The Butchers Club have a new option on their ‘secret menu’ the Fei Jai burger. Stacked inside a classic pineapple bun the ‘Fei Jai’ consists of a five-spice pork belly burger patty with a char siu glaze, seared luncheon meat, a crispy wonton, Chinese cabbage and coriander salad, spring onion mayo and a fried egg.

A veritable feast of Hong Kong flavours the pineapple bun holds together well as a burger bun, for health safety reasons pork has to be cooked longer than beef so the meat comes out a little drier than a traditional beef patty but the fried egg and the mayo lubricate the burger well. Luncheon meat and wontons are not what you’d expect to find in a burger but the crispyness and flavour add well to create a unique and delicious burger.

The Fei Jai burger ($88) is available until the 10th February at all three The Butchers Club Burgers outlets – Wanchai, Central and K11 in TST. www.thebutchers.club

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Eat What You Want, Pay What You Want
Khana Khazana’s unique Chinese New Year “Eat What You Want, Pay What You Want” buffet promotion returns for the seventh year. Every Monday evening in February from 6-10pm the Wanchai Indian Vegetarian restaurant dinner buffet allows customers to pay what they want for the buffet via an empty red packet included with the bill. Drinks are not included and must be paid for in full. The buffet includes dishes like sprout bean salad, boondi raita, meduwada, pakoda, hariyali kebab, paneer butter masala, jeera aloo, dal punjabi, sevian kheer and roti’s and naan are served at the table.
Khana Khazana: 1/F, Dannies House, 20 Luard Road, Wanchai. Tel: 81081070 www.khanakhazana.com.hk

Mongkok Street Eats @ Chinese New Year

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Portland Street was a heaving mass of revellers, as long queues waited patiently for some late night street food snacks.

Sterile soul destroying malls provide the perfect shopping locale for over-priced branded consumerism. Street eats and markets offer a vibrancy and energy that malls can never replicate or replace. There’s a place for both, as the government – who are supposed to be representing our interests – should remember.

Licence them and ensure they’re hygienic and clean up after themselves is fine. But don’t drive them out of existence – the long lines show there’s a demand and a desire for what they’re selling.

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Hawker Central – Mongkok @ Chinese New Year

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There’re no sheep to be seen as late, late into the night the streets of Mongkok are thronged with people and hawkers relaxing and enjoying the start of the Year of the Ram.

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