*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.

SGT