Celebrate Your Birthday Amidst the Nightscape of Shenyang and the Warmth of the Streets

Must-Visit Hotel in Shenyang for the Dragon Boat Festival - Shenyang Zhongxin Hotel (Zhongjie Palace Joy City Branch) 🎈 Shenyang Zhongxin Hotel | Start Your Birthday Ritual in the Clouds I told the hotel in advance that it was a birthday stay, and I was warmed as soon as I opened the top-floor suite on the 27th floor—the head of the bed was decorated with balloons that read "Happy Birthday," there was a handwritten greeting card and Palace Museum cultural gifts on the table, and even the bathrobes were thoughtfully folded into heart shapes! 🌃Outside the floor-to-ceiling windows were the lights of Zhongjie. In the evening, I had room service deliver an ice bucket and red wine. I sat by the window to watch the night view and cut the cake, and the atmosphere was instantly full. 🛏️ The bedding was just the right softness and firmness, the mattress felt like sinking into a cloud, and the bathroom also had birthday-themed bath salt balls. After taking a bath, I snuggled on the bay window to apply a face mask. My bestie frantically snapped photos and said, "It's like filming a Korean drama heroine!" The next day, longevity noodles were delivered for breakfast, and the restaurant hostess pushed a cake and sang a birthday song. I'm socially awkward, but I was so touched that I wanted to cry! 🍛 Zhoujia Restaurant Xianghui Youpin Zhoujia Restaurant Fusion Cuisine (Changbai Branch) | A Retro Birthday Feast in a Time-Honored Restaurant It takes 30 minutes by taxi from the hotel to the restaurant. The small green brick building hidden in the old alley is so flavorful, with wooden screens + glazed lamps. As soon as you enter, you travel back to the nostalgic time of the 90s. I booked a window seat in advance, and the waiter even helped us decorate with birthday banners and small colored lights, and even the menu was handwritten with "Happy Birthday," detail-oriented people will be ecstatic! 🍽️ Must-eat dishes that I highly recommend: ✅ Curry Bread Chicken｜The treasure of the restaurant! The golden curry is so thick that it can hang on a spoon, the chicken is so tender that it can be pinched out of water, and the best thing is the freshly baked pineapple bun crust. Break it open and fill it with curry to absorb the soup. The carbohydrate happiness is directly off the charts. This carbohydrate lover even gnawed the bread crust clean! ✅ Honeycomb Coal Rice｜The "ritualistic responsibility" that smokes when served! Black glutinous rice is wrapped with sausage grains, poured with a secret sauce and mixed. Each grain of rice is shiny and fragrant. There is actually a soft-boiled egg hidden inside the "honeycomb coal". Digging it open instantly cures obsessive-compulsive disorder~ ✅ Candied Sweet Potato｜The DNA of Northeasterners is moving! The golden sugar threads can be stretched for 1 meter. The sweet potato is crispy on the outside and glutinous on the inside. It doesn't stick to your teeth when dipped in ice water. It feels like going back to the home-cooked dishes made by grandma when I was a child. Finally, the aunt said that the sugar painting "longevity" on the plate was specially prepared by the chef for the birthday banquet, moved +10086! ✅ Caesar Salad｜The solution to greasiness! The romaine lettuce is crispy, and the cheese crumbs are super generous. The salad dressing is the chef's homemade garlic flavor, served with freshly baked bread cubes. Even carnivores can't help but eat a few more bites~ 💌 Halfway through the meal, a resident singer came over to play the guitar and sing a birthday song. The waiter held longevity noodles and held up a light sign. My socially skilled bestie recorded the whole process. Although it was a bit embarrassing, it was really unforgettable! When I packed it up at the end, I found a handwritten thank you card and a voucher in the lunch box. The gentleness of the time-honored restaurant is really hidden in every detail~ 📝 Must-have Tips for Birthday People 1. Hotel: Inform "birthday stay" in advance, and there is a high probability that there will be a surprise arrangement (personally tested balloon/greeting card/small gift triple play), remember to note "Zhongjie night view direction" for high-altitude rooms, and bring your own city light filter for birthday photos; 2. Restaurant: Zhoujia Restaurant's birthday banquet can be arranged for free (call 1 day in advance to communicate), it is recommended to ask the waiter to help with serving the candied sweet potatoes/honeycomb coal rice to avoid being in a hurry; 3. Route arrangement: Go to the Palace Museum/Marshal Zhang's Mansion in the morning, go back to the hotel to rest and put on makeup in the afternoon, walk 10 minutes to the restaurant in the evening, and you can also visit the Zhongjie Night Market to buy birthday gifts after eating, a perfect day! This year's birthday was deeply touched by the romance of Shenyang! The atmosphere of the time-honored restaurant + the cloud-like gentleness of the high-altitude hotel, even the air is filled with the feeling of "being treated with care"~ Next time for family gatherings/anniversaries, I will lock in these two! 🥳