The Best Flavor of New Year is Reunion | New Year’s Eve Reunion Banquet at Hyatt on the Bund, Shanghai

Hyatt on the Bund, Shanghai, welcomed the year of the Ox with a reunion banquet on New Year’s [...]

Hyatt on the Bund, Shanghai, welcomed the year of the Ox with a reunion banquet on New Year’s Eve, January 31, 2021, replete with blessings and auspiciousness. The hotel invited guests to share the joy of the new spring with their families and to welcome the year of the Tiger. The Vue Restaurant, located on the 31st floor of the west tower, offers a stunning view of both sides of the Huangpu River, providing a perfect backdrop for the celebration.

Chef Kong Deqin meticulously selected seasonal ingredients to create a Cantonese New Year’s Eve dinner set menu. On the menu, guests could indulge in festival delicacies symbolizing wealth and auspiciousness, such as:

– Ham, Old Duck and Scallop Sea Cucumber Soup
– Steamed Hairy Crab with Hua Diao Wine and Egg White
– Braised Pork Knuckle with Seafood
– Rose Soy Sauce Chicken with Abalone
– Steamed Red Grouper with Chili Sauce and Fermented Soy Beans

On the night of family reunion, guests were encouraged to gather with their loved ones in the warm and elegant Vue Restaurant to welcome the new year with happiness. The price for this festive experience was 8888 yuan per table, accommodating ten people.

New World – Chinese Kitchen also offered a reunion banquet with local characteristics on New Year’s Eve, featuring dishes that promise a prosperous year ahead. The menu included:

– Stewed Sea Cucumber with Bamboo Fungus, Cabbage and Yunnan Ham
– Baked Prawns with Golden Soup and Noodles
– Steamed East China Sea Yellow Croaker with Spanish Ham
– Braised Pork Belly with Abalone and Sweet Peas
– Shanghai-style Crispy Salted Chicken

Each dish was carefully crafted to be auspicious and indicative of a year filled with prosperity and good fortune.
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The restaurant’s signature dish, Old Beijing Roast Duck cooked with fruitwood, adds a strong flavor of the new year to the family reunion moment. It is priced at 598 yuan per person, with a minimum order of four people. For larger groups, reservations of more than ten people come with the option of a two-story independent conference room and an upgraded menu. This package is offered at 6888 yuan per table for ten people, which includes a bottle of Perrier-Jouët Art Brut Champagne, two bottles of red wine, soft drinks, and unlimited juice.

On New Year’s Eve night, Café Studio at the hotel offers nearly a hundred freshly cooked dishes at six buffet counters, all prepared on site by the hotel chefs. The selections include seafood sashimi, roast suckling pig, roast lamb chops, roast grain-fed sirloin, Steamed Red Spotted Grouper with Jinhua Ham and Winter Bamboo Shoots, Black Pepper Crab, Braised Beef Short Ribs, new year festival desserts, and more. Additionally, there is unlimited sparkling wine, wine, beer, soft drinks, and juice available, making it an ideal gathering spot for close friends and relatives. The price for this event is 548 yuan per person, with a half-price offer for children aged 6 to 12.

Furthermore, from January 2, 2022, to February 15, 2022, Hyatt on the Bund, Shanghai, is launching a New Year’s rice cake gift box, Auspicious Family Hot Pot, and New Year’s gift box. The beautiful New Year’s blessings are encapsulated in four types of fragrant and soft rice cakes: Sweet Bean Rice Cake symbolizing prosperity and sweetness; Coconut Milk Rice Cake symbolizing auspiciousness; Yellow Millet Rice Cake symbolizing health and safety; and Ham Rice Cake symbolizing prosperity.

—At the same time, the hotel’s handmade reunion rice cake is launched. On the occasion of family reunion, share the wonderful gift with close friends and relatives and wish a prosperous year. The price is 268 yuan per box.

The Vue Restaurant at Hyatt on the Bund, Shanghai carefully selects special ingredients from various places and inherits orthodox cooking methods. It elaborately prepares the ‘Auspicious Family Portrait’ casserole, implying layers of stacking full of auspiciousness. Using various precious delicacies such as sea cucumbers, abalones and other seafood ingredients for cooking, paired with a secret abalone sauce made by simmering more than a dozen ingredients for several hours, it is rich and fragrant, whetting people’s appetites. Each costs 988 yuan.

In the New Year gift box, in addition to the indispensable auspicious rice cakes, there are also specially made garlic sauce and XO sauce, carefully selected abalones, morels and conpoy, canned candies and butterfly pastries, Perrier-Jouët Belle Epoque art champagne and selected Lapsang Souchong. Giving gifts in the Spring Festival, wishing for good fortune in the new year. Each box costs 2022 yuan.