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(China Daily)
Updated: 2009-01-12 14:52

BEIJING

Family banquet

For Spring Festival, the Hong Kong chef at the Regal Palace Chinese Restaurant, Days Hotel and Suites Beijing prepares banquets for friends and families featuring dim sum with tea, traditional niangao (cake) and gift boxes, as well as dishes with auspicious meanings. 6773-1234 ext 3520

Festive hampers

Celebrate Spring Festival at Horizon Chinese Restaurant at Shangri-La's Kerry Center Hotel Beijing, with rice cakes, hampers and truffles. There are beautifully packed festive goodies, besides festive menus with traditional celebratory dishes prepared for family reunions and get-togethers with friends. 8529-9466

Year of the Ox

Celebrate Chinese New Year at Li Jing Xuan, The Regent Beijing, with seafood delicacies, Beijing duck, and steaming hot jiaozi, or boiled dumplings. Year of the Ox set menus include those starting from 188 yuan per person, to chef Au's Chinese New Year reunion menus in private rooms. Year of the Ox Chinese New Year hampers and niangao are available for sale from Jan 6-26. 8522-1789

Dine for free

For every 600 yuan spent, excluding service charges, at one of Holiday Inn Lido Beijing's restaurants, one can receive a 150 yuan dining voucher, valid for the Texan Bar and Grill, The Patio, Gallery Lounge and Pig and Thistle. The offer is not valid in conjunction with other discounts or promotions and excludes 15 percent service charge. 6437-6688

Italian Canarino lunch

Danieli's Restaurant at St. Regis Hotel Beijing has a new Canarino lunch, with four different types of pastas and 15 sauces, accompanied by daily appetizers, desserts and Italy's favorite winter mix of fresh lemon infused tea. Promotion starts from Jan 19 at 85 yuan per person. 11:30am-2pm, Monday-Friday. 6460-6688 ext 2441/2442

Big deal set menus

DI Chinese Restaurant at InterContinental Beijing Beichen will combine Cantonese cuisine with New Year's seasonal offerings to prepare set menus from 1,480 yuan to 5,180 yuan per table (10 people). People who have ordered the set menus can opt for a special deal to pay just another 400 yuan to get a night's stay in one of the hotel's luxury rooms, for two. The hotel offers a Chinese New Year gift basket for 388 yuan comprising dumpling flour, vinegar, sausage, rice cake, dried pork, and wine. 8437-1288

Auspicious meals

Huang Ting Chinese restaurant at the Peninsula Beijing cooks up two festive set meals for the Spring Festival, each with seasonal dishes with auspicious names. For example there are fried prawn balls with XO sauce, steamed mandarin fish, quick-fried mushroom with tender cabbage, and rice cake. Prices are 400 yuan and 438 yuan per person, available for groups of more than 10 people before Feb 15. 6510-6707

Taiwan and Shandong cuisine

Zhao Long Hotel's Han Mei Fang Chinese Restaurant prepares several different set menus for Spring Festival Eve. There is Taiwan-style cuisine featuring three-cups chicken, Shandong-style meals with braised sea cucumber and spring onion, and fish lips in a Year of the Ox auspicious family banquet, all with traditional dumplings. 6597-2299 ext 0215