Restaurant offers CNY Eve dinner at whopping RMB388,888 in Suzhou
Spring Festival is the most important holiday in China. Every year, millions of migrant workers travel across the country in order to arrive home on time for the family reunion dinner on Chinese New Year Eve.
Instead of the home cooked meal the majority of rural area families eat, most families in big cities opt for a care-free food binge in restaurants and hotels. An ordinary Nian Ye Fan (CNY Eve dinner) costs from a few hundred to a few thousand Renminbi depending on the venue. Recently, a special Nian Ye Fan menu offered by a restaurant in Suzhou attracted the attention of Chinese media and millions of Chinese netizens.
This super-luxurious Nian Ye Fan menu offers 10 hot dishes including endangered spices and rare ingredients like “braised supreme abalone in oyster sauce,” “braised white truffle with shark’s fin,” “boiled honeycomb with bird’s nest,” and “super grade black caviar with Toro.”
On top of that, the restaurant also provides stretch-Hummer pick-up service, Suzhou embroidery and Pingtan (a form of storytelling and ballad singing performed in the Suzhou dialect) performances as well as a one night stay at the presidential suite in the Suzhou Crowne Plaza. The total price has been marked up to a whopping RMB595, 160 and even the final discounted price to the public is as high as RMB388, 888.
Du Fu (杜甫), the renowned Tang Dynasty poet once wrote a famous poem condemning the corrupt Chinese bureaucracy: “Behind the vermilion gates meat and wine go to waste while out on the road lie the bones of those frozen to death.”
In China, there is still a large number of the population under the poverty threshold. RMB388, 888 could probably feed 10 migrant labor families for 10 years. Social disparity has been a huge problem across the country, “Fu Er Dai” (the second generation of a rich family) and ”Guan Er Dai”(The officiallings) do whatever they wish while most migrant labors can’t even afford a train ticket home for the holiday. We are not here to condemn anyone for spending their own money but maybe take a look at the below pictures before raising your chopsticks.
Spring Festival is the most important holiday in China. Every year, millions of migrant workers travel across the country in order to arrive home on time for the family reunion dinner on Chinese New Year Eve.
Instead of the home cooked meal the majority of rural area families eat, most families in big cities opt for a care-free food binge in restaurants and hotels. An ordinary Nian Ye Fan (CNY Eve dinner) costs from a few hundred to a few thousand Renminbi depending on the venue. Recently, a special Nian Ye Fan menu offered by a restaurant in Suzhou attracted the attention of Chinese media and millions of Chinese netizens.
This super-luxurious Nian Ye Fan menu offers 10 hot dishes including endangered spices and rare ingredients like “braised supreme abalone in oyster sauce,” “braised white truffle with shark’s fin,” “boiled honeycomb with bird’s nest,” and “super grade black caviar with Toro.”
On top of that, the restaurant also provides stretch-Hummer pick-up service, Suzhou embroidery and Pingtan (a form of storytelling and ballad singing performed in the Suzhou dialect) performances as well as a one night stay at the presidential suite in the Suzhou Crowne Plaza. The total price has been marked up to a whopping RMB595, 160 and even the final discounted price to the public is as high as RMB388, 888.
Du Fu (杜甫), the renowned Tang Dynasty poet once wrote a famous poem condemning the corrupt Chinese bureaucracy: “Behind the vermilion gates meat and wine go to waste while out on the road lie the bones of those frozen to death.”
In China, there is still a large number of the population under the poverty threshold. RMB388, 888 could probably feed 10 migrant labor families for 10 years. Social disparity has been a huge problem across the country, “Fu Er Dai” (the second generation of a rich family) and ”Guan Er Dai”(The officiallings) do whatever they wish while most migrant labors can’t even afford a train ticket home for the holiday. We are not here to condemn anyone for spending their own money but maybe take a look at the below pictures before raising your chopsticks.