Having been recommended by a friend, and featured on LovinDublin, my boyfriend suggested dinner at M&L Chinese off cathedral street for some good food and good fun. Fortunately, we managed to book a table on Chinese New Year's Eve, what an absolute stroke of luck! The restaurant was packed with familys and friends all celebrating the new year together. Definitely a night to remember. 

When we arrived we were greated warmly and showed to our table. It wasn't untill our waitress said 'happy new year!' that we realised why it was so hard to get a table! The menu was so diverse, there was so much to choose from. To start I had veggie spring rolls and he had pork dumplings (apperiently they are the best thing on the menu as the waitress congratulated him on picking them). The mains were so huge that we ended up splitting one, mixed veg in Kung Pao sauce with rice on the side. I was so stuffed by the end of it I could hardly drink my water.. It was delicious! 

The drinks menu isn't that extensive, so if you ring ahead and ask, you can bring your own bottle of wine for 5e corkage. As it just so happens, the wine was free! On Chinese New Years it is tradition to hand out red envelopes to friends and family to wish them good luck. One of the waitresses went around to the tables with a big red box, a raffle for the envelopes. I pulled a fiver from the box which covered our corkage!