Hotel listings:Beijing
Ham it up
Jinglun Hotel holds a Spanish bamaham ham festival until Aug 7, with special discounts. The caf on the first floor offers a buffet featuring Western-style dishes comprising Spanish ham including salad, and ham with beef fillet or grilled fish. The hotel's Chinese restaurant serves dishes with ham, such as ham and asparagus roll.
010-6500-2266 Ext 8111.
New Chinese menu
Fu Gong Restaurant at Qianmen Jianguo Hotel reopened after renovation, with a revamped menu featuring new dishes in different cooking styles. Main courses include charcoal roasted duck breast with mashed potato, braised sea cucumber with golden millet, sauteed sea bream with tieguanyin tea. The restaurant has a healthy concept, and presents its dishes beautifully. While at the hotel, visit its theater, where artists from Beijing Peking Opera Theatre stages performances every evening.
010-6301-6688 Ext 8826.
Mooncakes as gifts
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Park Plaza Beijing Wangfujing presents a special choice of exquisite mooncakes to mark the Mid-Autumn Festival. Packed in specially designed boxes, they make good gifts for friends and families. Gift boxes with four mooncakes cost 198-268 yuan a box, and 338 yuan with six mooncakes.
010-8522-1999 Ext 3621.
Golden dragon mooncakes
To celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival, JW Marriott Hotel Beijing presents an array of delicious mooncakes. "Golden dragon moon" gift box, with four cakes, costs 208 yuan each, six mooncakes gift box costs 358 yuan, and eight mooncakes gift box costs 558 yuan.
010-5908-8101.
Unwind in beer garden
Crowne Plaza Beijing Zhongguancun offers an option to unwind with its beer garden, which will open until September. The outdoor venue features premium German Franziskaner beer, Belgian Stella Artois beer, and other German specialties, besides barbecue. 6 pm - midnight.
010-5993-8271.