The award winning Hilton Beijing Wangfujing brings international cuisines to Beijing with food festivals featuring masters chefs from Costa Rica and Portugal in the month of May. You don’t have to travel far to sample traditional dishes with food festival highlights on Costa Rica on May 9 – 16 and Portugal on May 17 – 26 at Vasco’s restaurant.

Costa Rican cuisine is known for being tasty, yet fairly mild, with high reliance on fresh fruit and vegetables. The main staple, known as gallo pinto, consists of rice and beans. Gallo pinto is also known in some southern areas of Costa Rica as burra; though still recognized the name is rarely used. Also, Costa Rican gallo pinto is made with black beans, while Nicaraguans use red beans traditionally. Discover the flavors and colors of Costa Rican cuisine as prepared by 2 master guest chefs from May 9 – 16 through a special set menu available for lunch or dinner at Vasco’s restaurant.

Portugal Food Festival on May 17 – 26 features the owner and master chefs - Elisabete Real and her husband Fernando Real - of Tromba Rija restaurant in Lisbon, Portugal which is renowned to offer the 'degustacao de Portugal' menu of traditional Portuguese dishes and wines. Portuguese cuisine is characterised by rich, filling and full-flavored dishes and is closely related to Mediterranean cuisine. The influence of Portugal's former colonial possessions is also notable, especially in the wide variety of spices used. These spices include piri piri (small, fiery chili peppers) and black pepper, as well as cinnamon, vanilla and saffron. Discover the taste of Portuguese cuisine and cooking at Vasco’s restaurant through the special dinner buffet available at RMB228 +15% per person from 5:30 pm – 9:30 pm.