Chinese New Year at Charlotte Straker House

Last month our staff team did a great job celebrating Chinese New Year. We decorated the dining room with fans and lanterns and residents tucked into a meal of honey ginger soy chicken, egg fried rice, spring rolls and prawn crackers. We had special decorations for the residents to enjoy with Chinese drums and atmospheric table settings to really bring the whole experience to life.

To make the event complete, an amazing “dragon” danced for our residents and performed a Chinese Lantern Dance to bring good luck to everyone who saw him. The dragon visited all the residents, including those who stayed in their rooms and there was lots of laughter and clapping as it danced around the corridors. Resident Muriel said: “The dragon made me laugh and I love it that we get to try all these different things.”