Last Chance to Buy Chi Fan for Charity Tickets!
Foodies and do-gooders unite – tonight’s the night you’ve all been waiting for. The third annual Chi Fan for Charity dinner will kick off citywide at 7.30pm, with the Hatsune after-party to follow at 10pm.
As expected, there is only a limited quantity of tickets left for both events. Just two days ago there were twice as many, so the few that are left will also probably be snatched up fast:
5 seats at Karaiya, hosted by Xixi Cheng of Beijing Foodies. RMB 600/person
3 seats at Oden, hosted by Tian Yuan. RMB 500/person
If by the time you read this, there are no seats left, you can still try and reserve a place at the after-party here. The last time we spoke to someone at CFFC (yesterday around 5pm) there were only about 16 tickets left. You can always take your chances and show up at the door, but we're told to try this earlier on rather than later. Only a handful will be available for RMB 300 a pop.
For the 500 others who prepared for this event well in advance, Beijing silent auction packages and early bidding are now available, as is the Chi Fan for Charity Plastered T-shirt.
And to give you all a taste of what the table hosts will be like … here is Round Three of our Q&As. See here and here for the previous posts.
Nicky Krieger-Loos, who calls herself a "trailing spouse," will be hosting at Vasco's at Hilton Beijing Wangfujing with her husband Carlo Kriger (Ambassador of the Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg to the PRC, Mongolia and Pakistan). Meanwhile, Gady Epstein, a correspondent for the Economist, will be entertaining at Made in China.
What makes you a “Beijing personality”?
NKL: I am only a person living in a Beijing hutong!
GE: The usual qualifications: Hang around long enough, don't kill or seriously maim anyone.
What do you bring to the table? (Literally.)
NKL: To our table at home? I love to cook, so anything from Luxembourg specialties to homemade pasta or Russian borscht.
GE: An appetite.
What are your favorite dinner conversation topics?
NKL: Anything but diet, politics or religion.
GE: The menu, the wine list.
How do you work up an appetite?
NKL: Power walks and cooking.
GE: See above.
Where do you like eating around town?
NKL: I'm always open to try new restaurants, but Maison Boulud is my absolute favorite.
GE: Susu.
What do you look for in a dining companion?
NKL: Somebody fun, interesting and who doesn't move excellent food around the plate, but actually enjoys eating it.
GE: Good taste.
If you could bring anyone in the world to CFFC as your dinner date, who would it be?
NKL: Famous chef and cookbook author Julia Child or Emeril Lagasse.
GE: Excellent question.
Photo: Kristen Lum
