New Year dinner at sky-high prices
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January 28, 2011, Friday
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A LUXURY hotel in Suzhou of east China's Jiangsu Province is offering a dinner package of 388,888 yuan (US$59,080) for the Chinese Lunar New Year, making it one of the most expensive Chinese New Year's Eve dinners in the country.
The five-star Crowne Plaza Suzhou in the city's industrial park is offering the package from mid-January. It includes dinner for eight on February 2, Chinese New Year's Eve, one night's accommodation in the presidential suite and transportation in a Hummer vehicle.
The dinner features 10 succulent courses such as Ah Yat Abalone, braised white truffle with shark fin and stewed wild honeycomb with bird's nest.
Traditional Suzhou art, including pingtan, a type of storytelling and ballad -singing in the local dialect, and performances of -embroidery will be presented during the dinner.
The hotel said the package aims to provide a different New Year experience for high-end customers and it had several inquiries.
Other hotels in the country are also offering Chinese New Year's Eve dinners at high prices. Landison Plaza Hotel Hangzhou in Zhejiang province has a similar dinner package available for 199,000 yuan. The package includes a luxury dinner, accommodation in the presidential suite and traditional performances that reflect Hangzhou culture, such as a tea ceremony and music played on traditional stringed and woodwind instruments.
The package is not available to the general public, only to regular guests who have certain requirements, said Lao Xiaoxian, a marketing executive at the hotel.
Gu Xiaoming, a sociologist at Shanghai's Fudan -University, said such high-priced New Year dinners are marketing strategies.
"They can't prepare a dinner that could justifies such a whopping cost," he said.
"Moreover, they deviate from the nature of the Chinese New Year, which should be a traditional occasion for family reunions," he added.
The five-star Crowne Plaza Suzhou in the city's industrial park is offering the package from mid-January. It includes dinner for eight on February 2, Chinese New Year's Eve, one night's accommodation in the presidential suite and transportation in a Hummer vehicle.
The dinner features 10 succulent courses such as Ah Yat Abalone, braised white truffle with shark fin and stewed wild honeycomb with bird's nest.
Traditional Suzhou art, including pingtan, a type of storytelling and ballad -singing in the local dialect, and performances of -embroidery will be presented during the dinner.
The hotel said the package aims to provide a different New Year experience for high-end customers and it had several inquiries.
Other hotels in the country are also offering Chinese New Year's Eve dinners at high prices. Landison Plaza Hotel Hangzhou in Zhejiang province has a similar dinner package available for 199,000 yuan. The package includes a luxury dinner, accommodation in the presidential suite and traditional performances that reflect Hangzhou culture, such as a tea ceremony and music played on traditional stringed and woodwind instruments.
The package is not available to the general public, only to regular guests who have certain requirements, said Lao Xiaoxian, a marketing executive at the hotel.
Gu Xiaoming, a sociologist at Shanghai's Fudan -University, said such high-priced New Year dinners are marketing strategies.
"They can't prepare a dinner that could justifies such a whopping cost," he said.
"Moreover, they deviate from the nature of the Chinese New Year, which should be a traditional occasion for family reunions," he added.
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