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Asia Market Launches ‘Bring It To Market’, A Development Programme For Small Irish Businesses

Dublin’s Asia Market – Ireland’s premier Asian supermarket – is honouring Lunar New Year with the launch of a brand new Year of the Dragon development programme, Bring It To Market, that will provide precious funding and mentorship support to an up and coming Irish food & drink business throughout 2024. Submissions for the store’s new ‘Bring It …

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Lunar New Year 2024

Asia Market Announces Events Celebrating Lunar New Year 2024

Dublin’s Asia Market – Ireland’s premier Asian supermarket – has announced a stimulating schedule of events and experiences guaranteed to awaken the senses of Asian food lovers of all ages for Lunar New Year 2024. The store’s sizzling hot year of the dragon celebrations are set to capture the imagination as part of a packed programme of …

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Dublin’s Asia Market Lunar New Year Collaborations & Events

Dublin’s Asia Market – Ireland’s premier Asian supermarket – has been at the forefront of importing new and exciting far eastern flavours to Ireland for over 40 years. As part of its 2023 Lunar New Year celebrations, the store has announced exclusive collaborations with leading Asian chefs, restaurants, food writers, and bloggers that will shine …

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Marcus O’Laoire Headlines Asia Market’s ‘Taste Of Malaysia’ Showcase

Marcus O’Laoire Headlines Asia Market’s ‘Taste Of Malaysia’ Showcase

Asia Market – Ireland’s Premier Asian Supermarket since 1981 – has announced a month-long sensory showcase of Malaysian cuisine throughout May. This includes hosting a free ‘Taste of Malaysia’ Street Food Experience at its flagship Drury Street (Dublin 2) store on Saturday 14th May, headlined by charismatic Chef, Marcus O’Laoire. The showcase of Malaysian food …

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Asia Market Dublin Chinese New Year 2022

Asia Market Announces Family-Friendly Food Experiences Extravaganza To Welcome In Chinese New Year

Asia Market Dublin Chinese New Year 2022 To welcome in the year of the tiger, Asia Market – Ireland’s Premier Asian Supermarket since 1981 – has announced a series of sensory family-friendly Asian food experiences to celebrate Chinese New Year (Tuesday 1st February) and the Lunar New Year Festival. Between Monday 24th January and Monday …

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Japanese Cooking Essentials

10 Essential Ingredients for Japanese Cooking and Where to Buy Them

When I returned to Ireland over 10 years ago, after living in Japan for 3 years, it was quite difficult and expensive to get Japanese ingredients. You’ll be glad to know this isn’t the case anymore. Nowadays, these ingredients are widely available and less expensive. Stock up on the ten essential ingredients I’ve listed below …

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DublinTown

Social Gallery – DublinTown Has Launched an Exciting New Food And Drink Festival

What beats a festival dedicated to the best food and drink Dublin has to offer? Not a lot in my opinion! On Monday, 1st October, DublinTown launched the first ever DublinTown Food & Drink Festival, a delicious festival dedicated solely to the city’s excellent food and drink. The night celebrated all things food and drink, …

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Belonging in Dublin’s Creative Quarter

This Dublin City Centre Festival Sounds Like the Ultimate Weekend Plan

The Creative Quarter District is one of the most bustling hubs in the city, picturesque and dotted with fantastic restaurants. DublinTown and local businesses in this district have come together to showcase the best of the Quarter with a festival this weekend – and the best part is, entry is free! Running over two days, …

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Spice Bag Seasoning

Chef Kwanghi Chan Spices Up His Best Selling Spice Bag Seasoning with a Korean Kick

A spice trail was beaten to Asia Market when chef Kwanghi Chan launched his original spice bag seasoning earlier this year. The first of its kind on the Irish market, the seasoning gave spice bag fans the opportunity recreate their own healthier, flavour packed version of the salty sensation at home – a fakeaway, if …

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Yeos Satay Sauce

Asia Market Announces Tastings and Giveaways that will Satay-sfy Your Asian Food Cravings

If the melting pot of flavours that is South East Asian food melts your heart then you’ll want to put a note in your diary about the upcoming demos, tastings and giveaways at Asia Market, the Asian food mecca on Drury Street, and Duck, their sister restaurant around the corner on Fade Street. Asia Market …

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Dragon Boat Festival Dumplings

Chinese Dragon Boat Festival is Your Excuse to Feast on These Dumplings All Day

Today is the fifth day of the fifth lunar month of on the Chinese lunar calendar, and in China that means the wide-spread celebration of Dragon Boat Festival, a traditional Chinese festival which pays tribute to Qu Yuan, a great poet in the Zhou Dynasty. Today, the Dragon Boat Festival is celebrated all throughout Asia …

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Almond Cookies Macanese Cuisine

Take a Bite of Macanese Cuisine – This Iconic Asian Bakery just Landed in Ireland

If you are an Asian food fan you might have tasted Chinese, Thai, Vietnamese and Korean, but how about Macanese? The little known cuisine of Macau, or Macao, has flown under the culinary radar but has a striking history and flavour profile that deserves to be championed. A Portuguese territory until 1999, the food of …

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This Premium Spirit from China just Arrived Ireland and Here's where you Can Taste it

This Premium Spirit From China Just Arrived Ireland and Here’s Where You Can Taste it

China’s most famous premium clear spirit, Kweichow Moutai, made by Kweichow Moutai Distillery Co, is a top quality Baijiu, an alcoholic traditional drink made from a combination of cereals and created without yeast. Instead, a fermenting agent called Qu is used, providing the drink with a completely different taste compared to other world clear spirits. As its …

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10 Essential Ingredients of Thai Cooking with Saba's Executive Chef Taweesak 'Tao'

10 Essential Ingredients of Thai Cooking with Saba’s Executive Chef Taweesak ‘Tao’

With the Thai New Year approaching on the 13th – 15th of April this year, I would like to give you an insight 10 essential ingredients of Thai cooking that every kitchen cupboard should have to cook delicious Thai food. These are the same ingredients I explain to our students during our Saba Cookery Class, …

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Food Markets in Ireland

Bountiful Baskets and Banter – 15 of the Best Food and Farmer’s Markets in Ireland

‘Buying local’ has become second nature to Irish consumers over the past few years, and with that shift Irish farmers’ markets have become the bedrock of local community life and a vital stepping stone to many a fledgling start-up food and drink producers. Now, most towns in Ireland support a thriving farmers’ market, and among …

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Kwanghi Chan Spice Bag Seasoning

Recreate Your Guilty Pleasure at Home – Chef Kwanghi Chan’s Special ‘Spice Bag’ Seasoning Now Available in Asia Market

Have you ever felt a pang of shame as you ordered a ‘spice bag’ from your local takeaway? Well now you can recreate the salty sensation in the privacy of your own home – and make it a lot tastier – with Chef Kwanghi Chan’s Special ‘Spice Bag’ Seasoning, available for sale in Asia Market from …

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Eva Pau Asia Market

Exploring Asia Market, Ireland’s Gateway the Orient, with Director Eva Pau

Grabbing my basket I set into the market, first taking in the colourful, bustling scene in front of me: a scooter, typical to the streets of China and South East Asia, is burdened with boxes of fresh fruit, and all around wooden crates and baskets spill over with other exotic produce; pak choi, durian, and …

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China Sichuan TheTaste Competition

Win an Exclusive Tasting Menu Dinner at China Sichuan Restaurant for 4 people with Wine Pairings – Closed

Established in Dublin in 1981, Asia Market is Ireland’s largest importer, retailer, wholesaler and distributor of Asian food products. From their retail store on Drury Street, in Dublin’s city centre, and wholesale business and Cash & Carry in Ballymount, Asia Market are the chief supplier of all your favourite Asian restaurants and shops across Ireland. To …

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Asia Market Chinese New Year Countdown

Asia Market Countdown to Chinese New Year with In-Store Tastings, Chef Demos and Giveaways

In the countdown to the Chinese New Year Festival, from Saturday 28th January until February 12th, Asia Market, on Drury Street, will be celebrating with a host of Chinese food and drink tastings, chef demos and giveaways. From January 23rd, Asia Market will be giving out free to customers a special Chinese New Year ‘Red Packet’. These are …

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