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Wharf Life Jan 15-29, 2020 wharf-life.com
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plan your life from Jan 29-Feb 12 where? Museum Of London Docklands West India Quay
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Learn all about the perils of growing too fast and too far without a solid foundation with Klodsmajor, the stacking tower game. This, of course, bears no resemblance to Jenga – a game in which you remove wooden blocks one at a time from sections stacked in threes and place them on top of the structure while seeking to avoid collapse. No, these blocks are coloured. It’s totally different Stacking Tower Game, £8 Go to uk.flyingtiger.com
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EVENT | Chinese New Year Families are invited to celebrate the Year Of The Rat close to London’s original Chinatown – Limehouse. Expect martial arts and craft workshops. Feb 8, 11am, mostly free, museumoflondon.org.uk
How Third Space can help its members reach next level fitness
where? Notes Crossrail Place
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GIG | Live Jazz Live music returns to the coffee shop-cum-wine bar as the brand works to attract more drinkers and nibblers to its evening sessions. From Feb 5, 6pm, free, notescoffee.com
Why data is the answer to helping hospitals process patients
Island Poke’s
where? Boisdale Of Canary Wharf Cabot Place
Vegan Ahi looks the part, but is it necessary to fake fish?
taste test GIG | Boney M The iteration of the superstars featuring Maizie Williams comes to the Wharf bringing Daddy Cool, Rasputin and Rivers Of Babylon with it. Jan 31, 9.15pm, from £145.50, boisdale.co.uk
to do before January 29
For some Canary Wharf’s Winter Lights festival is about the art (see Page 14 for more on this). For others it’s about tasting something great while having a stroll round the attractions. Look out for Bites street food Jan 16-25 canarywharf.com
Vegan Ahi, Island Poke, Crossrail Place - £8.85 As a fair weather January vegetarian I’m hardly qualified to write with much authority on the topic. But one thing that has struck me is the amount of time and energy restaurants spend on making veggie and vegan dishes that ape those traditionally involving the flesh of animals. The Vegan Ahi from Island Poke, for example, features plant-based tuna. I’ve no idea what the small, reddish cubes are, but they’re a pretty good visual approximation of raw fish. Poked with a chopstick, there’s some give but not too much. When eaten with the other ingredients atop the brown rice, it’s not a bad fake
texture-wise and has little flavour of its own. Alone, however, the stuff simply appears to be watermelon – weak and tasteless. My question is why bother going down this path at all? Wouldn’t it be better to focus on creating dishes out of the wealth of ingredients that are both acceptable to vegans and vegetarians without trying to imitate that which they’ve chosen to avoid. The bowl is a satisfying experience because of the flavourful ingredients around the faux fish. It could be even better with a tasty, nakedly vegetable substitute. Go to islandpoke.com Jon Massey
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It’s back - Winter Lights takes over Canary Wharf from January 16
the joy of six Every fortnight Wharf Life covers six areas surrounding Canary Wharf to bring you the best of what’s going on beyond the estate From Page 37
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