Nothing is more attractive and appetizing than sizzling hot dishes in cold weather. Three restaurants in the Crowne Plaza Beijing Sun Palace will present their special dishes on a slab-stone and iron plate, and in a casserole, all hot to beat the cold. The hotel's Chinese restaurants, RainbowYunnanRestaurant and Red Orange are offering a large selection of Cantonese, Yunnan-stylefoods and barbecue buffet dinner. A hot-stone barbecue buffet dinner costs 288 yuan ($48) plus 15 percent service charge per head with free flow of wines, beers, soft drinks and juices, from Monday-Friday.

5/F Yunnan Dasha, Qisheng Zhongjie, Eastern North Third Ring Road, Chaoyang district, Beijing. 010-6452-1708.