Celebrating the Lunar New Year
in the Tri-Valley
Ring in the year of the dragon by celebrating the Lunar New Year in the Tri-Valley. Enjoy live cultural performances and demonstrations, visit a world-class museum gallery dedicated to thousands of years of Chinese history, or dine out at local restaurants offering up traditional Chinese cuisine.
Lunar New Year Celebrations
Blackhawk Museum: Into China
The Blackhawk Museum is home to the Into China gallery, a permanent exhibit that features various artifacts, sculptures and displays that span across thousands of years of Chinese history. This world-class collection features one of the world’s largest and most detailed to-scale model of the Forbidden City, a to-scale replica of the Emperor’s Throne, larger-than-life wood carvings, and the Emperor’s Terracotta Army cast from original terracotta warriors.
Entry to this exhibit in included in the general admission price.
Traditional Chinese Cuisine
Uncle Yu's at the Vineyard
Winner of Diablo’s Best of the East Bay Award, as well as the Best of Award of Excellence, Uncle Yu’s at the Vineyard delivers Asian cuisine with a twist. Innovative Asian cuisine enhanced with quality ingredients, paired with a Wine Spectator Award winning wine list, striking atmosphere and engaging service create the perfect dining experience.
Koi Palace
Koi Palace in Dublin is a refined dim sum restaurant and tearoom. Enjoy the floor to ceiling windows and the fishtail-shaped bar under a ceiling of moving stars. As you meander through the tearoom, the koi fish and lotus leaf carpet brings the dining room alive as guests enjoy savory dim sum and refined teas.
Mayflower Restaurant
Mayflower Seafood Restaurant specializes in a delectable assortment of traditional and authentic Chinese dishes unique in the area. The menu includes traditional dim sum, classic and unique seafood, char siu, soups, and clay pot dishes.
Mayflower Restaurant
Specializing in delicious and reasonably priced Chinese cuisine, Leo’s Chinese Restaurant offers a pleasant and welcoming dining setting. Leo’s house specialties and inventive menus set them apart, as each dish uses only fresh ingredients with no MSG.