Beijing - Nov 08 (part 5 - final)

Buffet Lunch from St Regis Beijing

Beijing - Nov 08 (Part 4)

Went to Forbidden City, the local agent made special arrangement for us. Afternoon tea at the Forbidden City Royal Kitchen, ok, what used to be the Royal Kitchen, which is converted to a gallery and could be hired for private lunch or afternoon tea.





some local tidbits/munchies

Beijing - Nov 08 (part 3)

Westin Chaoyang.

Kiwi infused water in the room

Chocolates and cookies - you can see an empty spot on the plate (I was very hungry too hungry and could not even wait to finish taking photo before eating)

The hotel showed us their meeting rooms, set up to showcase how the various layouts and what they can do. They even set up snacks to show the variety and how the coffee break stations are like for the actual events

Beijing - Nov 08 (part 2)

Dinner at Westin Financial Street

Starters - cold dish


Spicy & Sour Soup


Beef fillet with water lily, ginko and spikey sea cucumber



Steamed Turbot Fish/Kailan/Prawn


Crispy Rice (涡巴), Spicy tofu (麻婆豆腐) and fried bee hoon


Double boiled pear with white fungus and rock sugar and water lily bulb

Beijing - Nov 08 (part 1)

Was invited by Starwood (who operates the hotel brands: St Regis, W, Westin, Luxury Collections, Sheraton, Four Points and Aloft) to visit Beijing and look at their 6 properties. Felt like a refugee, having to change 3 hotels (1 each night) and inspected a total of 6 hotels.

Going to share some food shots taken during the trip. If you are looking for traditional Chinese food or exotic stuff, you will be dissapointed as all my meals were hosted in restaurants within the hotels we visited.

Dinner at Four Points by Sheraton

3 kinds of appetizer, pardon the messy BG. Those are the condiments for the next shot

广式片皮鸭



宫宝虾球


Kailan (iirc)



Dumpling Soup