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In the seven Emirates
Lounges in Dubai on January 22, the first day of the Lunar New Year, breakfast
treats will be served in the First and Business Class lounges, including a
classic ‘Cheung Fun’ steamed rice noodle roll stuffed with dried prawn and
scallops. At lunch and dinnertime, passengers can indulge in a Cantonese roast
duck bao with plum sauce, scrumptious poached shrimp and vegetable dumplings
with soy and vinegar dip, or Chinese rainbow salad with smoked salmon, sesame
dressing and soya ginger dressing. Desserts in the First Class Lounges will
include a choice of sweet and light mango coconut cake with spices or black tea
cake, with a tangy yuzu tartlet served with green tea powder available in the
Business Class Lounges. Passengers can also take a walk to the unique Emirates
old-fashioned ice cream carts to enjoy limited edition gourmet Matcha green tea
ice cream, made in-house by Emirates chefs.
In Singapore,
passengers can enjoy steamed rice with Chinese chicken sausage in lotus leaf,
where the sticky glutinous rice traditionally symbolises family cohesiveness.
Other main courses include stir fried prawn with green asparagus. Prawn is
pronounced as ‘Ha’ in Cantonese echoing the sound of laughter, symbolically
prepared to ensure happiness in the coming year. Delicious desserts include
pineapple upside down cake with mango boba, with pineapple considered as one of
the lucky fruits in Chinese culture because in the Hokkien Chinese dialect, the
word for pineapple ‘ong-lai’ translates into ‘fortune comes’.
In the Emirates
Lounges of Bangkok, passengers will be enticed by Chinese steamed red snapper
with celery ginger sauce, alongside assorted dim sum, shrimp Siew Mai and Ha
Kao shrimp and chicken.
All Emirates
passengers 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 USD125, enjoying the facilities for up to four hours
before a flight.
Onboard Emirates,
passengers celebrating Lunar New Year can explore a variety of content with up
to 23 Mandarin and 14 Cantonese movies to choose from during January and
February, also available with English subtitles, including ‘Table for
Six’, ‘Almost Love’, ‘Reunion Dinner’, ‘Love Can’t Be Said’, ‘Mozart from
Space’, and ‘Man on the Edge’, or settle in to a selection of over 200+
Hollywood movies with Chinese subtitles including new releases ‘Black
Adam’, ‘Rogue Agent’, ‘Ticket to Paradise’, ‘The Woman King’ and ‘Elvis’. Passengers
can also browse through a music library of 122 Chinese albums and playlists.
For those celebrating Vietnamese New Year, also known as Tet Festival, there
are 6 Vietnamese movies to choose from, ‘The Old Man’s Dog’, ‘Saigon in
the Rain’, ‘The Royale Bride’, ‘Camellia Sisters’, ‘Accidentally Dad’, and
the ‘The American Dream’.
As gifting plays an
important role in the well wishes of Lunar New Year, Emirates passengers can
take advantage of special shopping offers with EmiratesRED and buy any two
fragrances to get USD 15 off, on brands including Amouage, Givenchy, YSL, Roja
parfums, Versace, Cartier, and Hermes. Passengers can also save up to 15% when
buying two products from the same brand, including Cerruti watches, Benefit
cosmetics, Elizabeth Arden beauty, Clogau jewellery and more.
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