Marco Polo Plaza Cebu welcomed the Year of the Fire Rooster with such traditional activities as the lion and dragon dances, eye dotting ceremony, and yee sang or prosperity toss to usher in a prosperous 2017.
In keeping with a long running hotel tradition, Marco Polo Cebu buffet restaurant Cafe Marco also now offers a feast of Chinese dishes for lunch and dinner on top of its international buffet in Culinary Impressions of China, a food event that will run only until Monday, January 30.
Delicious chili crab was served during the event.
Feast of Chinese food
Just a few of the dishes in the Cafe Marco buffet during last night’s Chinese New Year 2017 celebration at Marco Polo Plaza Cebu: century egg salad with fried scallops, chicken and pumpkin cannelloni with cheese, jelly fish salad in the starters section, baby back ribs with black pepper, chili crab, hanging beef with steak sauce, steamed sea bass with soya sauce at the main course counters, and steamed buns to go with the Cebu lechon.
Desserts with a Chinese theme include the flourless cake, festival cake, buchi, and egg tart. Of course, there are also the usual pastry, cookie (malicious), ice cream, and Filipino dessert fixtures like puto bumbong.
Marco Polo and Cafe Marco provide you the perfect place to celebrate the Chinese Lunar New Year 2017 and greet family and friends Gong Xi Fa Cai.
More photos of the Chinese New Year Celebration at Marco Polo Plaza Cebu
PROSPERITY TOSS. Hotel executives led by GM Julie Najar and guests perform the Yee Sang or prosperity toss to mark the Chinese New Year.
A traditional lion dance.
Dragon dance
BUFFET. Cafe Marco spices up its regular international spread with more Chinese dishes during the culinary festival until January 30.
Cafe Marco entrance.
Hanging beef with steak sauce
Jellyfish Salad
Lechon with bun
Buchi and tikoy.
