People born in the Year of the Rooster are said to be honest, ambitious, attractive but at times prone to impatience and selfishness. Rooster or not, make sure you insist on celebrating Chinese New Year this Saturday and impatiently enforce one of the following festive activities…
1. Tea Workshops
New video! 3 raw #puerh teas, 3 different villages, 1 mountain. It’s time to taste the difference with Don & Celinehttps://t.co/Y4uIcFVcXA pic.twitter.com/OubTbtEQbk
— Mei Leaf (@mei_leaf_tea) 12 October 2016
At the 1930s Shanghai inspired Mei Leaf Tea Bar in Camden, you can not only try a healthy and life-affirming tea cocktail such as the Dew Drop Junkie (bright floral Jasmine tea muddled with crushed mint leaves and elderflower, £3.70)… but get into the spirit of the motherland of the cuppa’ and enjoy a tea workshop or tea tasting session. And buy a tea face mask.
2. Dumpling Classes
Chinese New Year is a chance to not only eat so many dumplings that you pretty much become one, but to learn to make them too. Release your inner Kung Fu Panda and head to Mamalan for a small and intimate dumpling making class, £35 a head. Plus try Mamalan’s special Chinese New Year Red Rooster Dumpling (only available from 27th Jan to 2nd Feb, £6.5, chicken, spring onions and red currant).
3. Fortune Cookies
4. The Year of the… Cocktail
5. The Silk Road
The Magical Lantern Festival has come to Chiswick House and Gardens for its second year. With life-sized and oversized lantern scenes representing the significant route of trade which gives this year’s festival its name, ‘The Silk Road’, this is an extremely prosperous way to spend your Chinese New Year.
And it’s not only a magnificent 75 minute lantern trail but rides, VR games, an ice bar, ice rink and international food from churros to jerk chicken and, of course, sticky dumplings. Open Thursday to Sunday each week until 26th Feb, tickets up to £20.
6. The Parade
7. Lazy Susan