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Dining in China

 

Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner.
Served with our unforgettable itineraries.

Here comes the chance for your clients to enjoy a one-of-a-kind dinning experience in China. Not only will they be able to see a variety of sights, but the fine dinning which lets they feel ease far from home, and refresh on the road!

 
Breakfast
 

Generally breakfast is arranged at the hotels which the clients stay in. The clients can start their day off with the western breakfast (WBF) or American ones (ABF) in most of the big cities and developed tourism cities, such as Beijing, Shanghai, Xi'an and Guilin. The higher the hotel level is, the more food it will offer.

In remote areas, western food might be failed to offer, meanwhile, the Chinese breakfast (CBF) or Chinese-and-Western¨Cmixed will be served as the substitute. The following food might be included in Chinese-and-Western-mixed buffet: pastry and bread, cakes, cookies and other desserts, Chinese dim-sum, noodles and rice-noodles, boiled or fried eggs, chips, appetizers and salads, Chinese hot dishes, milk, coffee, tea and so on.

In most cases, our price of TWO sharing ONE standard room PER NIGHT will included the fee of breakfast offered by hotel for TWO.

 
 
Lunch & Dinner
 

Lunch usually is woven into our daily arrangement, especially in the remote areas. As to the dinner, it is not included as often as the lunch. We intend to leave more time to the clients to explore local specialties themselves, which will make the itinerary more flexible and interesting. The settled lunch and dinner without your special requests are the Chinese food. Your guests will enjoy their lunch and dinner in the restaurants or hotels authorized by local tourism bureaus. In line with food sanitation and security for each international friend, China National Tourism Administration has carried out a strict regulation on meals. We arrange the meals in those restaurants in big cities or main tourism cities based on the regulation and the standard as follows:

 
For group
8 hot dishes and 1 soup
6-9 Pax
6 hot dishes and 1 soup
2-5 Pax
4 hot dishes and 1 soup
1 Pax
4 hot dishes and 1 soup
 
Here's a sample menu for group in Bravo Hotel Guilin for your reference.
 
Option A
Sweet Corn Soup
Saut¨¦ed Beef Fillet & Cucumber
Crispy Rice with Seafood
Deep Fried Chicken
Saut¨¦ed Pork Brisket with onion
Fried Sliced Duck with Seasonal Vegetables
Saut¨¦ed Shredded Pork with Bean Sprouts
Saut¨¦ed Eggplants with Chilly Sauce
Saut¨¦ed Seasonal Vegetables
Fried Rice with Assorted Meat
Fruit
Option B
Sweet Corn Soup
Saut¨¦ed Beef with Oyster Sauce
Stir-Fried Meat with Assorted Vegetables
Saut¨¦ed Fish with Sweet & Sour Sauce
Fried Chicken with Peanuts & Dry Chili
Fried Stuffed Eggplants with Minced Pork
Braised Pork Meat with Shredded Taro
Saut¨¦ed Seasonal Vegetables
Fried Rice with Assorted Meat
Fruit
Option C

Daily Soup

Saut¨¦ed Seafood Ball & Vegetables

Saut¨¦ed beef with cucumber

Sweet & Sour Pork

Fried Stuffed Eggplants with Minced Pork

Saut¨¦ed Sweet Corn with Ham & Cucumber

Deep-Fried Fish with Sweet & Sour Sauce

Saut¨¦ed Seasonal Vegetables

Fried Rice with Assorted Meat

Fruit
Option D

Vermicelli and Preserved Vegetable

Saut¨¦ed beef with cucumber

Sauteed Shredded Pork with Onion

Sweet & Sour Pork

Deep-Fried Sliced Fish with Lemon Sauce

Saut¨¦ed Chicken Cubes

Fried Sliced Duck with Seasonal Vegetables

Saut¨¦ed Seasonal Vegetables

Fried Rice with Assorted Meat
Fruit
 
 
Meals on Cruiser
 

On Li River Cruiser

The lunch is served on the board when the cruiser is taking the typical route. It will be Chinese food in family-style or buffet. Western lunch box will be offered upon your request.
 
 

On Yangtze Cruiser (Victoria)

Meal are served in the single-seating dining room. The optional alternate dinning arrangement is available in a la carte dinning room, for a supplementary charge. Early risers may enjoy early bird coffee and tea in the Yangtze Club, and afternoon tea is also available. Dinner are served in family-style. Besides, each cruise begins and ends with a gala evening, hosted by the Captain.
 
 
Optional Featured Meals of Tourism Cities
 
City
Featured Meal & Recommended Restaurant
Beijing

Peking Roasted Duck at Quan Ju De

Shanghai

Chinese Dim-sum at Lvbolang

Guilin

Banquet of Rice-noodle at Fubo Hotel

Xi'an

Tang Dynasty Banquet at Tang Yue Gong
Jiaozi Banquet at Hantang Tianxia

Hangzhou

Huaiyang Cuisine at Louwailou

Chengdu

Sichuan Cuisine at Huangcheng Laoma

Guangzhou

Canton Cuisine at Guangdong Restaurant

 
 
Indian Food and Others
 

If your clients are vegetarians or come from India , do not worried about the dinning any more. There are more and more vegetable-style or Muslim style restaurants in Beijing , Shanghai , Guangzhou and other main tourism cities. You just tell us their demands before coming to China and we will try our best to arrange the vegetable meal or Muslim meal for the clients. They will feel like in the hometown with the familiar tasting of their food. The following is the menu for group of Indian food at Indian Kitchen, just for your reference only.

 
Soup
Tomato Soup
Snacks
Tandoori Pappad
Nanveg Snacks
Tandoori Chicken
Main Course

Yellow Dhad Butter Fry
Ahoo Mutter(Dry)
Pancer Radai

NaNveg Course
Mutter DoPiaza
Bread
Mix Bread
Rice
Jcera Rice
Salad
Ctreen Salad
Dessert
Egulab Jamur
Drinks
Coke and Sprit
 
 
Dinning on the Train
 

Every train has a dinning car no matter it is long-distance ones or not. Chinese breakfast, meal and drinks are served on dinning car when it comes to time. We can provide the clients the food box upon the request.

 
 
Tips of Dinning in China
 

Chinese people are fond of eating and Chinese food boasts one of the world's greatest cuisines. An important shining point of China's cultural heritage is Chinese cuisine which has a long history. As a result, one of the wonderful experiences you will have when traveling in China is the abundant array of delicious and inexpensive food. Chinese local cuisine is characterized by fine selection of ingredients, particular care to the amount of fire, and balance in nourishment. Different geographical locations, climates, historical factors and eating habits of different places have contributed to local flavor and dishes, which attract gourmets from around the world.

Western Fast food joints like McDonald', KFC and PIZZAHUT are also popular in China . You will enjoy the true western food in some elegant restaurants in big cities as well. Hotels rated at or above three-star offer the American Buffet to guests as breakfast.


Here are several differences in custom that your clients should be aware of when eating in a Chinese restaurant.

 
First of all, there are no taxes or tipping. You need only pay the stated price of the meal and no more.
 
Secondly people don't normally order dishes individually in China . If you're eating with a friend or a group it is better for your friends or the host to decide on what dishes you want together. All the dishes are placed in the middle of the table, sometimes on a rotating platform, and each person takes food from the dishes using their chopsticks or spoon and places it in their individual bowl to eat.
 
Thirdly, there usually is no splitting the bill when Chinese people eat out. Instead one person will volunteer to pay for the entire meal. If you do try to pay for your own portion of the meal instead of letting one person pay the whole thing, your Chinese friends might be very offended. You can choose to take his treat next meal as return but do not try to share the bill this time.
 
Fourthly, if you do not like to eat certain kinds of food, you will tell it to your friends or host in advance. Since some Chinese people prefer to serve you with wild animals in local restaurants, such as dog, cat and pigeon, you should tell them before the ordering.
 
Finally, when you are eating, Chinese people will keep on persuade you to having more food and wines all the times to show their enthusiasm and hospitality. If you are really full, you can thank them and explain in a moderate expression.
 
 
 
 
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