Asia Market

Dublin’s Asia Market will be hosting a series of sensory family-friendly Asian food experiences to celebrate Chinese New Year and the Lunar New Year Festival. Throughout February and up until Monday 21st February, the family-run business will host a melting pot of cultural food events across its two Dublin stores and online, introducing traditional Chinese New Year customs and rituals to the streets and suburbs of Dublin, and further afield. Asia Market’s Ballymount store will become home to a free family-friendly Chinese New Year Night Market this Thursday February 3 (5.30pm to 9.30pm) featuring some of the city’s top Asian-inspired food trucks and street food vendors. Visitors will be able to enjoy flavoursome Chinese, Malaysian, Thai, and Korean dishes while soaking up an authentic Chinese New Year experience consisting of traditional live music, lion dances, live cooking demos, late night shopping, and more on what promises to be a night to remember. In addition, a Chinese New Year Banquet for two will be available from Asia Market’s HK style Duck Restaurant for collection or delivery in Dublin until February 15. www.asiamarket.ie

KaShing

Sunday February 6 is the date to remember should you fancy heading along to a Dim Sum and Tea extravaganza at KaShing restaurant to mark the Lunar New Year Festival. The event will be hosted by Spice Bag Podcast presenters Blanca Valencia, Dee Laffan and Mei Chin who will be taking a deep dive into the Dim Sum and Tea menu; www.dublinlunarnewyear.ie.

Dublin Lunar New Year at The Guinness Storehouse

Celebrate Dublin Lunar New Year at the home of Guinness, where for the next couple of weeks there will be Mandarin audio guided tours while you sample the Year of the Tiger themed Stouties, all while learning about the history of Guinness in Asia, before retiring to Restaurant 1837 on the fifth floor to enjoy an Asian inspired meal. This year, Hakkahan’s (of Stoneybatter) head chef has joined forces with the Guinness Storehouse to create an exclusive Guinness X Hakkahan inspired dish available in Restaurant 1837 exclusively until the end of February. www.guinness-storehouse.com 

CN Duck, Ranelagh

The new kid on the block in leafy Ranelagh, CN Duck specialises in, well, duck. The vintage industrial style restaurant, inspired by Shanghai in the 1930s, is a celebration of duck, pork, and chicken all cooked in the traditional bullet oven to ensure crispy, succulent meats. There are dumplings, rice bowls, noodles and wok fried everything on the menu too. www.cnduck.ie 

Building Bridges Exhibition

Proprietors of M&L Chinese restaurant on Dublin’s Cathedral Street have launched an art gallery just across the road from the restaurant and the first exhibition, Building Bridges, celebrates Chinese and Irish art. The first exhibition started on January 29 and will run all this week featuring works from Irish artist Neilius Flynn and Chinese artist Jie and admission is free to all. Finishing the evening off with dinner at M&L (be sure to order the stir fried French beans with dry chilli) would make for a thoroughly pleasant outing indeed. www.mlchineserestaurant.com