Chinese New year Archives

Makati Shangri-La, Manila welcomes the Year of the Wood Dragon

This year’s Chinese New Year’s celebration is a special one for the premier Makati hotel since it’s the first of its kind since it reopened sometime last year. Trust it to come up with unforgettable surprises and dining packages to ring in the auspicious Dragon year. Yee Sang Makati Shangri-La,…

Love, money & more in the Year of the Water Tiger

By PAUL CAOILI The 2022 Yang Water Tiger is a year of expansion and growth, despite the adversities and challenges ahead — a year whose energies lean towards being hectic, dynamic and energetic. Here’s your comprehensive guide towards roaring into it. 2022 is a year of great beginnings. It forces…

Celebrate Chinese New Year 2022 at City of Dreams

Auspicious offerings await diners at City of Dreams Manila’s award-winning restaurants Crystal Dragon and Nobu Manila. To welcome the Year of the Water Tiger, the two premium restaurants highlight bountiful feasts of fine Cantonese cuisine and regional Chinese specialties, and new-style Japanese cuisine, respectively, for fully vaccinated diners. A taste…

New World Makati Hotel brings blessings, prosperity and good fortune in the Year of Water Tiger

As Spring draws near, so shall new luck. Bid farewell to what’s old with hope budding ahead. To set the Year of the Tiger off right, New World Makati Hotel has curated a series of exciting offers – including a relaxing room package, enticing dining experiences, and fun activities to…

How to take the Metal Ox by the horns

By Jose Paolo S. dela Cruz After a year that had many of us scampering like mice, would the “Year of the Metal Ox” prove any better? “Absolute power corrupts absolutely.” This line, according to Feng Shui consultant and crystal jeweler Paul Tan Caoili, is one that might be wise…

Experience an ‘Ox-plosion’ of flavors with this iconic Chinese restaurant

By Tedrick Melvin Yau It's time to ring in the “Year of the Ox” with an abundance of sumptuous – and auspicious – dishes from this good ol’ Chinese resto in San Juan City. Steamed free range chicken Dinner on the eve of the Lunar New Year is one occasion…

Kung Hei Fat Choi: Go on a food odyssey this Chinese New Year

Filipinos always associate Chinese New Year with Nian Gao, or more popularly known as tikoy, and various other Chinese cuisines. If you're craving for these Chinese treats and delicacies, you don't have to cook them yourself or wait to be invited by your good friends to their parties. All you have…

Usher in abundance with Feng Shui master Joseph Chau

A flow of luck is soon to come your way as Marco Polo Ortigas Manila welcomes the coming of the “Earth Pig” with Feng Shui Master Joseph Chau Kam Shing. Celebrate the Chinese New Year at the hotel’s ground floor lobby on February 5, 11:00 a.m, and help usher in…

Five spots to visit this Lunar New Year

Usher in the Year of the Dog with your favorite Chinese treats at these great restaurants: Jasmine Jasmine is serving up a Cantonese feast expertly prepared by Chef Wong Kam On. The menu includes Braised Dried Oyster Sea Moss, Fried Glutinous Rice with Assorted Chinese Marinated Pork, Steamed Cod Fish…

China in Two Flavor Profiles

By Sylvia Reynoso Gala | Liven up the Chinese New Year with these wonderful finds from some of Manila's finest restaurants.Â Gong Xi Fa Chai! Cantonese cuisine at Red Lantern Take Solaire Hotel and Casinoâ€™s Red Lantern restaurant. Their hugely popular dim sum buffet, for instance, trots out the dumpling…