January 27th, 2022   |  
Author: Oliver Parkinson   |  
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Categories: Chefs' Blog

Chinese New Year (the year of the tiger in 2022) falls on 1st February and marks the start of a traditional period of celebration that has spread from Asia and is now embraced by communities across the globe. The precise date of Chinese New Year varies from year to year as it is based on […]

February 12th, 2021   |  
Author: Chris Brown   |  
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As February is spice month, there was no way we could omit Chinese New Year from our blog ramblings this week, especially as it official starts today (12th Feb). It’s our bread and butter after all, or should that be our spring rolls and wontons? After Christmas, Chinese New Year represents SK’s busiest periods of […]

February 7th, 2020   |  
Author: Sean Flint   |  
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Do you know that the Chinese New Year is celebrated for 23 days? That certainly beats the one miserly day we get off on 1st January which is generally spent in bed catching up on sleep and recovering from the alcohol-induced hangover from the night before. Our cousins north of the border do it right […]

February 16th, 2018   |  
Author: Neil Shaefer   |  
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It may only be the start of the 2018 Chinese New Year (the year of the dog) but here in the SK development kitchen, we’re already planning for 2019 – the year of the pig. You will be very pleased to know that we are skipping ahead this year and providing a pork-based recipe. Dog […]

February 13th, 2017   |  
Author: Neil Shaefer   |  
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Chinese New Year has particular significance for chefs John Connell and Jane Beesley – and not just because the food they make is currently being enjoyed by millions of people across the UK. John and Jane, who work for Teesside-based SK Chilled Foods, were both born in the year of the rooster. The pair are […]

February 2nd, 2017   |  
Author: SK Foods   |  
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Believe it or not, Chinese New Year 2017 is only just underway, but in the SK kitchen we have already started planning for 2018! 2017 is the year of the rooster, which is apt given we have two in the kitchen. No, I don’t mean the feathered version, but our Head Chef John and Senior […]

February 8th, 2016   |  
Author: Neil Shaefer   |  
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It’s fair to say Chinese New Year represents one of the busiest times of the year in the SK kitchen. Only Christmas is busier for us and as an example this year will be providing 1.5 million pieces of prawn toast, 2 million spring rolls and hundreds of thousands spare ribs, lemon chicken and wontons. You don’t need […]

February 8th, 2016   |  
Author: Neil Shaefer   |  
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SK Chilled Foods geared up for Chinese New Year by making an astonishing 1.5 million pieces of prawn toast – thanks to a £600,000 new investment. Alongside those at SK Chilled Food’s two production centres at Riverside and South Bank will be a host of Oriental snacks and side dishes including two million spring rolls […]

February 23rd, 2015   |  
Author: Neil Shaefer   |  
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You may be aware that we are now into the Chinese New Year, which in 2015 celebrates the Year of the Sheep. The build up to this event, which started on 19th February and runs for the best part of a month, always marks one of the busiest times of the year for us in […]

February 20th, 2015   |  
Author: Jane Beesley   |  
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Here at SK Foods, we are gearing up for Chinese New Year by making an amazing two million spring rolls on behalf of some of the UK’s biggest supermarket chains. The chances are that if people buy chicken, duck or vegetable spring rolls from their local supermarket in the coming weeks, they will have been […]