For a westerner, staying in an unfamiliar Chinese hotel can have some surprises.
Later, he created Oyamel (Mexican), Zaytinya (Greek, Turkish, Lebanese) and, in the Cosmopolitan hotel in Las Vegas, China Poblano (Mexican-Chinese, of all things).
One former home of a wealthy Chinese family opened in 2010 as a boutique hotel, Le Sun Chine, complete with a retro champagne bar.
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Ask your hotel concierge to write down addresses for taxi drivers, and remember to take a hotel card with the address in Chinese characters for the return trip.
Earlier in the day the Chinese delegation moved out of the official hotel after it was said to be not up to their standards.
Despite the on-site competition from Ramsay and the soon-to-be-opened Hakkasan (an outlet of the famed Chinese restaurant group due to open in early 2013), the hotel has successfully brought jazz music to the region.
"We want to make people feel as if they are home, " says Wei Cheng, a hotel manager in Hangzhou, near Shanghai, although few Chinese homes have Day-Glo walls.
In Guyana Chinese companies mine bauxite and want to build a hydroelectric plant and a hotel and to modernise the main airport.
Also trying to cater to demand from Chinese buyers, Shanghai-based Greenland Group said in March it bought a residential and hotel project in Sydney from Canadian firm Brookfield Asset Management Inc.
David Ritchie, who directs sales and marketing for the Omni Parker House hotel in Boston, came to the statehouse to learn how to attract more Chinese travellers.
When a bellman in a Shanghai hotel advised me to get a breakfast coupon from Lashou.com, a Chinese group-buying site, for less than half the price, I knew that social commerce had gotten into the hearts and minds of Chinese consumers.
Also arrested on a related criminal complaint in Miami was Shusen Wei, a Chinese business executive, who also attended the antique show and shared a hotel room with Li.
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