Harbin Series: Shangri-la Hotel Ice Palace and Ice Bar ♥ ♥

And Shangri-la does it, too.

Every year, during the Ice and Snow Festival, Shangri-la Hotel Harbin builds its own ice restaurant where diners can enjoy shabu-shabu meals in the comfort of –18 degrees. 

Entrance to Ice Palace

 

Dumplings and meatballs line the hallway

 

One of the more elegant private dining rooms

 

For people who prefer the “in the wild” feel

 

In this godforsaken weather, hotpot meal is the only way to go

 

Sadly, the food is just average shabu-shabu fare, we do not even get prime cuts of meat. Except for the ice structure and the minus eighteen degrees, there really is nothing extraordinary about this meal.

 

BRRRRRRian, Sherylou, Me, Nelson 

 

After dinner, we have a few drinks.

For warmth.

It is absolutely necessary.

 

We head to Ice Bar just next door

 

Ice Bar. As in literally.

 

Ice table and stools

 

Ice entertainment

  

Check out the iced snowflake design on my wine glass. Totally stellar.

 

Fun (and very drunk!) Singaporean tourists having a merry-crazy time with Siberian tiger stuffed animal “tails”

 

With the cute and nice bartender we harassed all night

 

Shangri-la Hotel Harbin: 555 You Yi Road, Harbin, Heilongjiang Province, China. 中国哈尔滨道里区友谊路555号. Tel: +86451-84858888