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BEIJING

Sunday BBQ pool party

Doubletree by Hilton Beijing is organizing a pool party every Sunday after June 21 at their landscaped rooftop garden. Make a splash with BBQ, lots of party food, and free flow of beer, wines, soft drinks and music. 11 am-4 pm. 158 yuan net per person. 010-6338-1999 ext 1628

Wine club

The monthly wine club at Hilton Beijing will take you to some of the world's finest wines every Thursday. Dinner with Jacob's Creek will be on July 17, at OneEast Restaurant (010-5865-5030). Meanwhile, Elements will have a weekly Friday seafood buffet and Sunday open bar brunch (010-5865-5020).

Master cooking class

Le Pre Lenotre's new French chef de cuisine Yannick Ehrsam will hold a master cooking class on June 30 at 248 yuan per person, or cooking class plus a three-course dinner with coffee or tea at 338 yuan per person. 010-8599-6666 ext 6528

Japanese buffet

Urashima Japanese Restaurant at Loong Palace promotes a buffet with unlimited teppanyaki picks at 78 yuan, 108 yuan or 148 yuan per person. There will also be salmon, sea bream, and scallop, besides beef and mutton. 010-8079-9988

Father's Day tribute

Treat your father to a lavish buffet on June 21 with free flow of soft drinks and beer at Coffee Garden. 010-6561-8833 ext 40. Or pick up a cake for Dad at Bento & Berries. 010-6561-8833 ext 45

SHANGHAI

BBQ with a view

Enjoy a BBQ dinner with a beautiful roof-garden view at the lounge bar of the Howard Johnson Business Club Hotel on Friday nights from 6:30 to 9:30 pm starting this week. Treats include sizzling beef steak, lamb, salmon, king prawns, oysters and free-flowing ice cold beer. Costs 128 yuan.

021-6193-1888 ext 6108

Philippine cuisine

As the Philippines celebrate its national day this month, the Eton Hotel Shanghai is launching a food festival in honor of the tropical archipelago at its signature caf until June 21. Tuck into some salty pork cracking and tender meat with the Philippines' best-loved dish - lechon - as well as a wide array of vegetables and sauces for 128 yuan (lunch) or 148 yuan (dinner).

021-3878-9888 ext 6330

Let loose the juice

Park Hyatt is promoting a healthy lifestyle in the form of its new Healthy Living at Park Hyatt menu, co-authored by a Brazilian nutritionist. Get your bearings back with some anti jet-lag juice stocked full of kale and pumpkin seeds, or recover from last night's drunken antics with a glass of de-tox juice (navel orange, white grapes and mint leaves) among others.

021-6888-1234 ext 4335

Ibis flying high

Ibis, the international economy hotel brand under the Accor Group, is swelling its ranks to include 10 new hotels in China by 2010. Established in 1974, Ibis has become Europe's leading economy hotel chain and one of the world's largest chains in this category.

021-6105-5555

Flavor-licious

Baskin-Robbins will open two more shops in Shanghai this June. Also known as 31 flavors, the world's largest ice cream retail chain has a full 'library' of over 1,000 different flavors from which it will pick from each month. The brand, which entered China in the early 1990s, aims to open over 1,000 chains in the country by 2019.

021-6123-5118

(China Daily 06/13/2009 page8)