Lifestyles Ideas Management - 198,000 Yuan a table reunion meal at Guangzhou hotel

At least eight people in southern China’s Guangzhou city will enjoy a reunion dinner priced at 198,000 Yuan (S$40,000.00) per table – deemed by as the most expensive reunion dinner in all of China.

One table has been reserved by an unnamed company for the dinner at the city’s Shangri-La hotel. Star – rated hotels in Guangzhou, the capital of Guangdong province are known to whip up feast fit for kings during the Lunar New Year, There is a saying which is most often heard while traveling in China, “Eat in Guangzhou”, an eating paradise on earth.
Reservations for these up market get-together meals at high end hotels have already closed three weeks before Lunar New Year which starts on 7 February this year. At the Shangri-La hotel, reunion dinner costing below 8,000 Yuan have been snapped up; places for the 198,000 Yuan eight course Imperial Feast are still available though.

The hefty priced tag is the equivalent of a year’s salary for a white-collar executive in Guangzhou. Still it is a far cry from what is dubbed as the world’s most expensive dinner concocted by world renowned chefs at US$25,000.00 (S$36,000.00) a head.
The 10 course culinary experience organized in November last year by the Lebua Luxary Hotel in Bangkok, attracted food lovers from the US, Europe, the Middle East and other parts of Asia. Six three-stars Michelin chefs roped in to put together creations such as “tartar of Kobe beef with Imperial Beluga caviar and Belon oyster” and “mousseline of pattes rouges crayfish with morel mushroom infusion” all paired with a rare and robust vintage wine.

I will be most satisfied with just the teppanyaki Kobe beef, any types of caviar, rock oysters, crayfish and matsutake mushroom. My reunion dinner will be in China not the Imperial Feast in Guangzhou but it will be in Xiamen, a simple seafood reunion dinner with Buddha jumps over the wall (soup with abalone minus off the shark fins). While I am there, scouting around for the best restaurant for our reunion dinner, ask my guide about it when 6 February is near.