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Hot Booking of New Year Eve Dinner<br />
By Lynn Yu<br />
It’s less than a month from the<br />
Spring Festival of the Year<br />
of Snake and many restaurants<br />
are receiving a booming<br />
booking of New Year’s Eve Dinner.<br />
With no doubt, diversified<br />
dishes and varying prices of set<br />
meals are the key words of the<br />
New Year’s Eve Dinner this year.<br />
Beijing—diversified smallsized<br />
set meals<br />
Some time-honored famous<br />
restaurants, such as Quanjude,<br />
Fangshan, Fengzeyuan and Sichuan<br />
Restaurant are embracing<br />
a hot booking of<br />
New Year’s Eve Dinner.<br />
Separate rooms<br />
are extremely hard to<br />
get, and even half of<br />
the lobby seats are<br />
already sold.<br />
To adapt to the<br />
downsizing of families,<br />
some restaurants<br />
introduced small-sized<br />
New Year’s Eve Dinner<br />
for families with only a few<br />
members this year. According to a<br />
person in charge of Fangshan Restaurant,<br />
it will provide guests with<br />
a RMB 298-New Year’s Eve Dinner<br />
set meal at a preferential price<br />
of RMB 268 per capita. What’s<br />
more, Fangshan Restaurant will<br />
be decorated like a palace inside<br />
out, and to add the atmosphere of<br />
festival, many shows with Chinese<br />
characteristics such as face changing,<br />
acrobatics and magic will be<br />
performed in the Ripple Hall of<br />
the restaurant. Fengzeyuan Restaurant<br />
does not provide set meals<br />
for New Year’s Eve Dinner, but<br />
allows guests to freely order dishes.<br />
At the same time, it has invited the<br />
“God of Wealth” to give new year’s<br />
wishes and gifts to guests and invited<br />
folk artisans<br />
to sell works of art<br />
in the restaurant,<br />
to create a joyous<br />
festive atmosphere for<br />
guests.<br />
Guangzhou—local<br />
restaurants more popular<br />
this year, the booking period of New<br />
Year’s Eve Dinner in Guangzhou is much earlier<br />
than prior years. In previous years, guests<br />
make reservations one or two months before<br />
the Spring Festival, but this year they have to<br />
do it half a year in advance. Some people even<br />
paid a deposit for this New Year’s Eve Dinner<br />
a year ago. Lot of restaurants and star hotels<br />
have already been fully booked by now.<br />
Separate rooms of time-honored restaurants,<br />
including Guangzhou Restaurant,<br />
Lucky Restaurant, Panxi Restaurant and<br />
Taotaoju Restaurant, have all been fully<br />
booked. Seats in some old-brand star hotels<br />
like Garden Hotel and Dongfang are also<br />
hard to get. In Yuexiu District and Liwan<br />
District, New Year’s Eve Dinners priced at<br />
RMB 1000 or so and starting at 5:00 p.m.<br />
and 7:30 p.m. were sold out in November<br />
last year.<br />
Ni Hong, Secretary General of<br />
the Guangzhou Restaurant & Catering<br />
Association says that in recent years,<br />
the costs of labor and food materials are<br />
very high, and local restaurants have<br />
more convenience in providing New<br />
Year’s Eve Dinner for so many people<br />
in aspects of procurement channels,<br />
food materials and labors; besides, traditional<br />
diets are much more popular<br />
during the Spring Festival. Therefore,<br />
famous Cantonese cuisine restaurants<br />
are surely the most favorite.<br />
Shanghai—semi-finished set<br />
meals receive hot booking<br />
according to the Evening News,<br />
as the Spring Festival approaches, semifinished<br />
set meals for the New Year’s Eve<br />
Dinner are booked in an increasingly<br />
large amount. We get the information<br />
from Shanghai Restaurants Association<br />
that the sales volume of semi-finished<br />
set meals for New Year’s Eve Dinner are<br />
increasing year by year in Shanghai, and<br />
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