Kad Kafe Shangri-La Hotel, Chiang Mai Chang Klan Rd., A. Muang, Chiang Mai

Since December 2007, Shangri-La Hotel, Chiang Mai has welcomed its valued guests from around the world with its fine accommodation and services. Besides being a 5-star quality hotel, the daily extensive international menu at Kad Kafe offers a memorable dining experience to guests and visitors with large selections of Western, Japanese, Italian, Chinese and Thai cuisines. To maintain Kad Kafe as the city's perfect all-day dining venue, Kad Kafe, the "Live Culinary Theatre" of the Shangri-La Hotel, Chiang Mai, offers a variety of daily special promotions.

The Buffet Business Lunch offers special international recipes from four live cooking stations with a homemade cake corner every Monday to Saturday at 199++ baht per person; and the Special Buffet Dinner is open daily for 299++ baht per person offering six all-night-refilled cooking stations of a variety of popular Thai and international dishes. Lunch or dinner, guests are guaranteed a premium dining experience in an enjoyable ambiance; plus make sure to try some of Kad Kafe's signature original Italian pizza and finish off your exclusive dinner with a tempting dish from the large selection of desserts.

For a special weekend with your friends and family come and try the BBQ Sunday Buffet Brunch at 549++ baht per person where you can enjoy a variety of fine international dishes, sushi, sashimi, super fresh seafood including mussels and prawns, and a carving station. And after brunch, guests can make the most of the complimentary relaxing experience of "cooling off" at Shangri-La's swimming pool.

So pick your preferred buffet promotion, and make reservations to experience it for yourself at Kad Kafe, located in the Shangri-La Hotel's Lobby level; please contact 053 253 888 or visit www.shangri-la.com/chiangmai for more information.

Gold Leaf Chinese Restaurant 2nd floor Imperial Mae Ping Hotel Open daily 11.30 - 14.00 and 18.00 - 22.00 Tel. 053-283 900

As well as being known as a hotel in one of the best areas in town, Imperial Mae Ping Hotel is also famous for its variety of tasty cuisines. Gold Leaf is one of its restaurants offering a well-priced fine authentic Chinese menu in a pleasant setting.

Popular Cantonese style dishes from the a la carte menu are served at both lunch and dinner time and recommended as a starter is fried tube prawns in cream salad and Hong Kong prawn spring rolls. Choice main courses include the Peking duck, barbecued suckling pig, and braised superior abalone cubes in oyster sauce, and shark fin soup is the chef's recommendation for soup fans. Authentic Chinese desserts are available here too such as Chinese plum pancake, swallow's nest and gingko nuts in coconut milk, and sesame dumplings in ginger syrup.

Gold Leaf is currently offering a very special deal to all customers with its Golden Chinese set menu at only 350 baht net per person. There are four standard sets to choose from, each including a starter, shark fin soup, main dishes, and fruit or dessert. An example is roasted marine squid in chili and salt, shark's fin soup with crab meat, Hong Kong style roasted duck, steamed sea bass with spicy lime sauce, Yang Chao style fried rice and mixed fruit. The famous "Dim Sum Buffet" is still available daily from 11.30 am to 2 pm at only 295 baht net per person, where large selections of Dim Sum are served with soup and fried rice or noodles, and Chinese tea or chrysanthemum drinks. There are many more special promotions at Gold Leaf so please call 053 283 900 ext. 7057 for monthly promotions and to make a reservation.