The Menu: Lunar New Year celebrations and the first Irish branded liquid whey

Tullahay Farm in Tipperary have released the first Irish branded whey in liquid form

(Left) Asia Market has launched a special 2023 Lunar New Year Celebration Cocktail Kit, featuring recipes specially created for the store by Food Writers and cocktail aficionados, the Gastro Gays. Picture: Kirsty Lyons

New year celebrations

The Lunar New Year is celebrated in many other parts of Asia besides China, including Hong Kong, Taiwan, Vietnam, South Korea, Mongolia, Tibet and the Philipines, and Irish based celebrations of this new year of the rabbit see multi-cultural Dublin again as the party’s epicentre, with iconic city centre buildings going ‘red’ for the week (Jan 21-29).