A World of Food: The World Goes Boutique, so do hotels in China

Everywhere hotels are turning "Boutique".
Successfull websites such as Mr&Mrs Smith or Splendia are now specialized into room reservation for boutique hotels.
China has catched the trend and you can now find couples of small hotels with caracters as our list below show you. (Although the environment, settings and architectural and decoration features have characters, there is no certainty that the service is also stamped "Boutique"....)

- Red Capital Residence in Beijing
- House of Shambal in Lhasa
- La Commune in Beijing
- Fuchun Resort in Hangzhou
- Kayumanis in Nanjing
- Bayan Tree in Lijiang
- Hotel Cote Cour SL in Beijing
- Jia Hotel in Shanghai
- LapisCasa Boutique Hotel in Shanghai
- Fortune Land Hotel in Shanghai
- Hotel Kapok
- Hotel Lafaeux
- Pierone Concept
- Shama (service appartment)

Food Trend: Wellness foods- still flavour of the day

In response to Governments, health organisations and consumers, food companies are producing more foods with lower salt, less unhealthy fats, more grains and fibres and also more functional ingredients. Similarly organic foods have gone mainstream and are now even being sold by Wal-Mart. Functional - nutritionally enhanced – foods combine nutrition and medicine and offer unlimited scope for new product development. Recent examples include a carbonated green tea drink with ginger and caffeine that burns calories rather than adding them, vitamin-enhanced beer and dark chocolate sold as an antioxidant.

(Source: Euro Monitor International 2007)

Food Trend: New world foods – to boldly go

There is infinite scope for and real interest in new foods sourced from 'new' places. Superfruits like the purple açai berry from the rain forest, which has already achieved a market in health food shops could make the transition to mainstream. Some analysts have suggested that Peruvian cuisine – a marriage of Italian, Spanish, Indian, Japanese and native cookery - could be the next big ethnic food. Coconut is finding new uses such as natural juice while fruit soups have also been mooted as holding consumer potential.

(Source: New World Monitor International 2007)

A World of Food

Friday, October 05, 2007

The World Goes Boutique, so do hotels in China

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