FUTIAN Shangri-La, Shenzhen is hosting the city’s first Inner Mongolian Food Festival at the hotel’s all-day dining restaurant Cafe Zen and the Chinese restaurant Shang Garden until Feb. 26. Two guest chefs from Shangri-La Hotel, Hohhot will prepare authentic Inner Mongolian delicacies.

    The restaurants will be decorated with Mongolian flair, while staff will dress in traditional costumes and folk music of the grassland will add to the ambience.

    Customers at Cafe Zen and Shang Garden will have the opportunity to win a range of prizes in the lucky draw, including a trip to Hohhot that includes two round-trip air tickets and a two-night stay in the Shangri-La Hotel, Hohhot.

    At Cafe Zen, guest chef Alexandar Sun from Shangri-La Hotel, Hohhot will prepare an array of authentic dishes featuring imported ingredients from Inner Mongolia. Guests can savor dishes ranging from the exotic fried camel feet with red chilli to the more familiar braised Yellow River mandarin fish, and roasted lamb leg cooked over a Mongolian grill.

    At Shang Garden, diners can have the experience of dining in a traditional Mongolian yurt. The restaurant has erected a yurt, which is decorated with traditional paintings, instruments, leather wine pots and other handicrafts.

    Guest chef Derek Zhang was one of the finalists in the Shangri-La Hotels and Resorts 2011 Chinese Culinary Challenge. Chef Zhang will use his expertise of Inner Mongolian cuisine to provide dishes such as marinated beef shank in soy broth, braised ox-hoof with saffron, grilled lamb chop with spices and herbs, baked milk custard in puff and Khata dried fruit flapjack. Guests can order these specialities from the a-la-carte menu as well as two value-added set menus.

    Add: 4088 Yitian Road, Futian District

    Tel: 8828-4088

    Metro: Convention and Exhibition Center Station (会展中心站), Exit B

(Maggie Tang)