Weekend in Paradise....

A while ago Tina was presented with two coupons for us to enjoy the poolside BBQ at the Seaview hotel (or you can check out their English website), which is one of the top hotel resorts in all of China.

We only sat by the pool, but that itself was impressive...
Nice infinity pool, notice how they included half a moon for our photographing pleasure.
You could look out and see the ocean and over to the mainland, and we were only on the ground floor. The view from any of the upper level hotel rooms must just be amazing.

The poolside BBQ that we showed up for turned out to be the buffet (normally priced at 198 RMB) and we were amazed. It featured great sushi, sashimi, spring rolls, pepper steak, squid... all the good stuff and including breads and cheeses. The shocker for us was the selection of lobsters, oysters, mussels, crab, scallops, and king crab legs. We engorged ourselves on the crabs legs, as they were delicious.

We had also head that Xiamen was opening a jazz bar at the Seaview, but those kind of rumors run around like crazy over here and we felt that we need to find out. Our waitress confirmed that downstairs was a jazz bar opened by two Englishmen, so immediately after dinner, must have been around 21:00, we went downstairs to find out...

Turns out that an amazing jazz bar has indeed opened in Xiamen, we stayed and talked with the owners, enjoyed some outstanding wine and beer while they talked about the extensive French menu they have. We wandered out of there after a perfect night around 01:30. We will return to try the food at Antoine's and enjoy the jazz, and just from the atmosphere of the place we have even talked about maybe booking a room for one day some weekend just to get away from it all...