*Caravelle Hotel
The Caravelle Hotel is putting on a mouthwatering Lunar New Year Buffet Dinner of Asian, Western and traditional Tet delicacies at the Nineteen Restaurant on Jan. 22 and 23 with banh chung and banh tet, fish and seafood, grilled and BBQ, and many others. Chefs at the hotel prepare French pastries with classic cream fillings and decadent toppings to delight guests in the Lobby Lounge from Jan. 14-21, featuring seven varieties of choux and eclairs including chocolate cream with poached pear slices and icing sugar, and toffee cream with sliced fresh bananas and broken walnuts.
For further information, call 08 3823 4999.
*Duxton Hotel
From January 20-29, capture the mood of Tet at The Grill with traditional dishes of Tet dinner buffet including braised shark fin chicken soup, Shabu Shabu or Sukiyaki hot pot, baked item with sturgeon spice olive oil, hot dish with Chinese glutinous rice cake, Lap Mei Fanh, braised pork knuckle in dark sauce, traditional Tet sweets and snacks. Tet dinner buffet will also feature fresh seafood on ice, Sushi and Sashimi bar, BBQs and desserts. The Tet buffet dinner is priced at VND550,000++ per person.
For more information, call 3822 2999.
*Hotel Equatorial HCMC
The Hotel Equatorial HCMC will offer a variety of traditional menus and activities for guests to enjoy traditional New Year taste of Vietnamese, Malaysian, and Chinese. Guests can order traditional Vietnamese cakes of banh chung and banh tet at the hotel from January 13-25. Chef Wong Yow Phun will also prepare three Chinese set menus Sau Gong Jiu from January 9 to February 6.
For bookings, call 08 38397777 ext. 8333.
*Legend Hotel Saigon
There will be a grand Lion Dance at the hotel’s lobby, followed by a ceremony to present offerings to express appreciation to heaven, earth, deities and ancestors on Monday of January 23, the first day of new lunar year, from 8 a.m. until 9:30 a.m.
From 22 to 25 January, the hotel’s Atrium Café will feature a Tet buffet featuring traditional Tet specialties. All will be complemented with a free flow of soft drinks, coffee and tea for lunch; wines, beer, cocktails, fresh fruit juices, soft drinks, coffee and tea for Sunday Brunch; and wines, beer, cocktails, soft drinks, coffee and tea for dinner.
The buffet is priced at VND500,000++ for lunch (11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.), VND720,000++ for Sunday Brunch (11 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.) and VND840,000++ for dinner (6 p.m. to 10 p.m.). Children from 4 to 12 years old are half price. For reservations, call 3823 2833 or 3823 3333 ext. 189/190.
*New World Hotel Saigon
New World Saigon Hotel offers the New Year program at its Chinese restaurant Dynasty. Master chef Ho Wing Sang and his team prepare three nine-course family set menus featuring suckling pig, abalone and braised oysters with Chinese mushrooms or ostrich fillets with macadamia nuts. A selection of dim sum awaits guests from January 24-31 with oyster sea moss dumplings, crispy squid balls and chicken asparagus dumplings.
For bookings, call 08 3822 8888.
*Renaissance Riverside Hotel Saigon
Farewell the ending of the Year of the Cat with a family New Year’s Eve dinner at the Renaissance Riverside Hotel Saigon. This hotel’s culinary team will treat you a feast on international and Vietnamese delicacies, together with an array of seafood. An eight-course set menu is exclusively prepared by Hong Kong executive chef Yeung Loi Ming with the Lunar New Year favorites. Poolside Terrace on the hotel’s top-floor is an ideal alfresco venue in Saigon for watching the midnight fireworks while enjoying the lavish BBQ dinner.
For reservations, call 3822 0033 ext. 2309.
Sheraton Saigon Hotel & Towers
Guests can celebrate the Lunar New Year with a traditional menu at Li Bai featuring the Yee Sang salad tossing and enjoy auspicious dishes including Hong Kong style steamed garoupa, lobster with fragrant minced garlic and braised goose web with whole abalone. There will be an array of traditional favorite dishes during the Tet celebrations at Saigon Café with Vietnamese vegetable roots pickle, banh chung (Vietnamese glutinous rice cake), and braised pork with egg in fresh coconut juice. For desserts, the highlights are Vietnamese candies. For reservations, call 08 3827 2828.
Sofitel Plaza Saigon
A master of calligraphy and a dragon, lion and unicorn dance will be performed from 11 a.m. on January 23 at the hotel lobby. Diners can enjoy a Sunday Brunch on January 22 at Café Rivoli at the price of VND900,000++ per adult for a free flow of soft drinks and healthy selection of juices or VND1.2 million++ per adult for unlimited Champagne and imported wines.
Savor all day extravagant buffet from January 23 to 26 with many sumptuous Asian and Western dishes with a free flow of house wine, beer and soft drinks. Buffets are priced at VND450,000++ per person for lunch and VND850,000++ per person for dinner. Children from 6 to12 years old will be offered half price. For bookings, call 08 3824 1555.
Windsor Plaza Saigon
Windsor Plaza Hotel presents traditional Chinese pudding and prosperity set menus to your festive get-togethers on Tet holidays until January 22 at Café Central An Dong and Ngan Dinh Restaurant. Welcome the Year of the Dragon with fireworks display and a lobster dinner from Top of the Town Bar and Restaurant. Alternatively, enjoy buffet with Lunar New Year favorites at Café Central An Dong from January 22-26. For a more traditional meal, bring your loved ones to Ngan Dinh, where you’ll find a Tet Specialty Menu from January 20 to February 6. Bring about extra luck this year with a Yu Sheng platter available from January 22-31.
InterContinental Asiana Saigon
There is a lion dance performance from 11 a.m. to 12 p.m. on January 23, which is the first day of the new year in lunar calendar, in both hotel and residences premise.
Yu Chu and Market 39 restaurants will have some special Tet buffet lunch and dinner for diners to choose. The special menus at Yu Chu are priced from VND588,000++ and are available until end of February. At Market 39, a special Tet Lunch Buffet is priced at VND400,000++ per person, Tet Dinner Buffet from Sunday to Thursday priced at VND500,000++ per person and Tet Seafood Extravaganza Buffet Dinner priced at VND600,000++ per person on Friday and Saturday. Special prices are valid from Jan 20 until February 3 only.
For reservations, call 3520 9099.
Shang Palace Restaurant
To celebrate the year of the dragon, Shang Palace Restaurant of Norfolk Mansion will hold “Abundance” Raw salmon mixed with shredded vegetables and a variety of sauces known as Yu Sheng to many overseas Chinese, particularly in Singapore and Malaysia. The traditional dish will be introduced to guest during this Tet Season from Jan. 15 to Feb. 6. For this special occasion, special mixed meat platter will make an addition.
