Since our pop-up presence at fundraising event Magic Feast there last year, we’ve kept in touch with the friends we made at nearby Surrey Square School and always love hearing about their latest plans and projects. We were delighted to be invited this week to see one of their latest projects come to fruition – a pop-up restaurant of their own!
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To celebrate the fact that ‘many of life’s richest moments happen around the dinner table’, restaurant reservations site Opentable have chosen one hundred of their favourite restaurants, in thirty cities around the world, to be part of a very special evening on Thursday 9th April. We are delighted to announce that Hutong is one of them.
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Although not known for certain, in some quarters it is believed that the widely-known proverb ‘A picture is worth a thousand words’ is of Chinese origin. Whether or not Hutong’s mother country can claim the proverb we cannot say, but we do know that we hold the proverb to be true!
We greatly enjoy sharing our photos on Instagram, the photo-sharing social media platform, and try to offer our followers a variety of interesting images including favourite dishes, design details, behind-the-scenes glimpses and previews of new menus and events.
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Following on from our spectacular celebrations of Chinese New Year last week, next week we will be marking the last day of the festivities by observing the tradition of the Lantern Festival or Yuan Xiao (元宵).
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Thursday 19th February heralded The Year Of The Goat and we celebrated with over two hundred guests in colourful, noisy style.
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We are delighted to introduce a new head chef at Hutong, Bing Luo, who joined the team in January. Chef Bing will head up the kitchen ensuring that our existing menu continues to be delivered to the highest standards, as well as introducing new dishes in his own particular style to delight our guests.
At a tasting of some of Bing’s delicious new dishes, which we will bring you more news of soon, we caught with our new chef to ask him a few questions.
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Guests joining us to celebrate Chinese New Year on Thursday 19th February will be able to enjoy a very special dish as part of the evening’s ‘Double Happiness’ menu – this traditional Lo Hei (撈起) salad.
Lo Hei is a fortune- and prosperity-bringing dish especially popular at Chinese New Year. Its origins date back more than 750 years to the days of the Song Dynasty, when fishermen along the coast of China would celebrate the seventh day of Chinese New Year, known as Renri or ‘everyone’s birthday’, with this fresh fish and diced vegetable dish.
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The giving of red envelopes containing money, also known as ‘red pockets’ on special occasions, festivals and particularly Chinese New Year, is an ancient and much-loved tradition. Red is considered a very lucky colour and is also thought to ward off evil spirits, so the giving of a red pocket brings both luck and fortune.
Typically given by married people to unmarried, grandparents and parents to the younger generations and by employers to their staff, at Hutong we give red pockets in two ways. The first is conventionally, by giving a red pocket containing a crisp new banknote as is traditional to all our team members on the morning of Chinese New Year.
The other is in our own special way, by giving each table dining with us on the night of Chinese New Year – Thursday 19th February – a red pocket containing a voucher for one of a number of prizes, from a drink on your next visit to, in one lucky table’s case, their entire bill being waived.
If you are joining us for dinner on Chinese New Year, be sure to look in your red pocket to see what your gift is!
The Reunion Dinner is a meal traditionally enjoyed by families – as many generations as are able to gather, often travelling from afar and even from overseas for the occasion – on the eve of Chinese New Year. A generous feast with a whole fish centrepiece - symbolising togetherness – it is believed to bring luck for the year ahead.
On Wednesday 18th February – Chinese New Year’s Eve – we will be serving a special Reunion Dinner menu alongside the main a la carte to enable families, friends and groups of colleagues to enjoy this wonderful tradition for themselves.
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