Max in Udon Posted December 18, 2014 Share Posted December 18, 2014 I was reading an article on the BBC World News site, and they were talking about people who worked at Christmas in the UK. My attention was drawn to the prices being asked for a Christmas Dinner. It is now 8 years since I was last in the UK, and it appears that prices have risen through the roof. Here in Udonthani I will be taking my wife out for a tradional Christmas Dinner..........3 courses with wine, for 790 baht. ''The Min Jiang restaurant on the top floor of the Royal Garden Hotel in Kensington is one of just a handful of Chinese restaurants open in London on Christmas Day. Restaurant manager Wei Chun Lee says some customers visit on Christmas Day every year Wei Chun Lee, its assistant manager, says that many staff are happy to work on the day. The restaurant charges £90 a head for its Cantonese-themed Christmas Day menu, and a member of staff dresses up as Father Christmas, or as he is called in Cantonese - Sing Daan Lou Yan, which translates as Christmas Old Person. Mr Lee adds: "We have 18 tables in the restaurant and they're fully booked every Christmas - half of them are local people and the other half are normally tourists. Rebecca Davidson, manager at the Spread Eagle pub in Camden, has worked Christmas Day for the past five years. Rebecca Davidson first started receiving bookings for Christmas Day back in the summer A total of 43 people have booked for the pub's £64 Christmas lunch, planning for which began six months ago, when they first started taking bookings'' What are other members going to do for a Christmas dinner? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
h90 Posted December 18, 2014 Share Posted December 18, 2014 Beside the prices the cheaper restaurants in Europe are often bad quality, so my parents tell.....(I wasn't there for a while). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baa_Mango Posted December 18, 2014 Share Posted December 18, 2014 merry christmas !!!!!!!!!!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
meatboy Posted December 19, 2014 Share Posted December 19, 2014 i loved xmas in thailand during the early 80's,the food and the STUFFING. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hedghog Posted December 19, 2014 Share Posted December 19, 2014 I recently got an early Christmas present. Saw it liked it bought it. I wouldn't of done that in my home country. Merry Christmas. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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