How about a Five Star Christmas dinner delivered in a box…
The holiday are some of the most joyous but stressful times of the year. Not only is it a gathering of family from far and near with the inevitable personality clashes and idiosyncrasies, it’s the strains of putting together the Norman Rockwell-perfect dinner. To that end, it’s either an exhausting day spent in the kitchen or the potluck surprise route with its accompanying “Battle of the Stuffings� from competing aunts or the forgetful uncle who can never seem to remember to bring the only thing he’s entrusted with, a simple can of cranberry sauce.
This holiday season why not give the gift of time and family harmony with a complete turkey dinner with all the trimmings? Let the Riverside Cafe at the Renaissance Riverside Saigon Hotel take all the work out of the holidays with a 6-7 kg turkey (or honey-glazed ham) that serves 10-12.
Notoriously a difficult meat to keep moist due to its low fat content, Renaissance Riverside Saigon Hotel roasts its turkeys to perfection, a delicate balance of temperature, time and basting, carefully packaged to ensure it reaches your dinner table in all its right-out-of-the-oven glory.
The honey-glazed ham receives its festive flavor from pineapple puree, honey and cloves and spends three hours in the oven, bathed in a vegetable stock with cubes of carrots, celery and onions.
In addition to a bottle of wine and any two sauces (cranberry, ginger cranberry, mustard or red wine), holiday diners can choose three sides: roasted potato, braised red cabbage, honey glazed carrots, roasted pumpkin, green beans, broccoli and a quartet of stuffings (traditional, smoked sausage, nut bread and oyster bread), ensuring that even the pickiest eaters will be rendered immobile in that blissful tryptophan- induced state of lethargy that comes only after a festive holiday meal.
Available from November 27 to December 31, the turkey/honey ham set is priced at VND 2,250,000 net. Order 24 hours in advance by phoning 3822 0033, ext 2309.
