As the Lunar New Year dawns and the Wood Dragon arrives, Canton Road's golden doors at Shangri-La The Fort, Manila glisten with anticipation. The hotel has a lineup of activities and packages to welcome the new lunar year.
Chinese New Year
Celebrate Chinese New Year in style with executive Chinese chef Wang Wei Qing's Emerald, Jade, Gold and Diamond set menus. Dishes include crispy tiger prawn with fruits, baked almond in Osmanthus sauce, pan-fried mushroom stuffed shrimp paste and celery, sautéed Wagyu beef tender cubes with mushrooms and the Atlantic smoked salmon yee sang.
Menu is ideal for groups of 5 to 15 in one of the Canton Road's private dining rooms. E-mail eats.slfm@shangri-la.com
Abundance of happiness
Canton Road also offers its exquisite nian gao treasure boxes, crafted to ring in a year of prosperity and abundance. The boxes feature culinary delights in four flavors and two variants: Prosperity Box (coconut milk fish-shaped nian gao, ube and pandan red coconut sugar with almond nuts nian gao), radish cake and taro cake) and Double Happiness Box (coconut milk fish-shaped nian gao, ube and pandan red coconut sugar with almond nuts and radish cake).
The specialty hampers have two varieties: Longevity Hamper (contains jasmine tea, red bean with pine nuts, mixed dried fruits, crispy mixed nut cookies, spicy minced US beef with mushroom sauce, cookies, milk chocolate feuilletine bar, coconut milk fish-shaped nian gao and spicy cashew) and Gong Xi Fa Cai Hamper (contains pineapple cookies, goji berries, canned sea conch abalone sauce, dried red dates, Chinese sausage, vegetarian XO sauce, milk chocolate feuilletine bar, coconut milk fish-shaped nian gao and spicy cashew.
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