The Marquis Thermal Spa and Fitness Therapy Center at the hotel provides three anti-aging facial care treatment programs. The “Gold-Soin Collagen Whitening Treatment” helps cells to reproduce rapidly through infusion with a mixture of collagen and vitamin C. The program includes back treatment, facial cleansing, deep cleaning, hand care, collagen treatment, neck and lymphatic massage treatment, and arm and leg care. The “Silver Lifting Treatment” is a facial treatment using a mask and an ampoule

The hotel’s Italian restaurant Toscana offers “Rainbow Risotto Promotion” from Sep. 3-Oct. 12. Guests may enjoy antipasto salad buffet with fresh exotic Italian ingredients. Menus include Italian traditional vegetable soup, one choice of risotto menu and dessert. For the main menu, guests can choose from seven risottos each with different colors according to ingredients. The seafood risotto is red with tomato sauce; eggplant risotto in vibrant purple; spinach risotto in green; saffron risotto in

The hotel presents its “Made for Japan” promotion, which provides guests an opportunity to enjoy premium wines from all over the world along with a tapas-style buffet. The event will be held at the hotel’s traditional Japanese restaurant, Akasaka, featuring a wide array of specially selected premium wines, perfectly paired to complement Akasaka’s authentic Japanese cuisine. Selections include fresh sushi and sashimi, teppanyaki, grilled skewered delicacies, noodles, hot dishes and desserts. The

The hotels’ Mediterranean restaurant, Cilantro, offers a promotion featuring exotic Asian specialties from Singapore, Thailand, the Philippines, Vietnam and India during the month of September. The buffet menu includes Singaporean chilli crab, Thai tom yam kung and the Filipino pata humba. The lunch buffet begins at 51,000 won and dinner buffet begins at 55,000 won, excluding tax and service charges. For more information, call Cilantro at (02) 317-3062.

Yeongyang-dolsotbap is a nourishing dish of rice, ginseng, jujubes and chestnuts which are believed to have healing properties. Rice tastes best when cooked in a stone pot because it cooks evenly and stays hot in the pot.Ingredients● 360 g non-glutinous rice ● 90 g glutinous rice ● 30 g black bean, 60 g chestnut, 32 g jujube, 37 g cultivated pine mushrooms, 24 g gingko ● 10 g pine nuts ● 25 g ginseng (fresh wet ginseng) ● 3 cups water ● seasoning sauce: - 3 tbsp soy sauce, 1 tbsp minced green on

Technology-obsessed chef Dave Arnold devotes himself to making delectable cocktails using whiz-bang devices like centrifuges, red-hot pokers and tanks of liquid nitrogen at his new Manhattan bar, Booker & Dax. So it was fitting that there were moments during Arnold’s demonstration at the International Culinary Center in Campbell, California, last week when the audience gasped audibly.After telling some cautionary tales about how using liquid nitrogen improperly can yield grisly results ― from fr

This image is not directly related to the storyLegionnaire's disease, which hit Quebec in mid-July, has infected 65 people and killed six, health authorities of the French-speaking Canadian province said. "We are very concerned by the current situation," Quebec public health chief Francois Desbiens said. "It's the largest legionellosis outbreak in Canada in recent years."Sixteen new cases were rep

In the summer, the warm weather allows the rapid growth of bacteria contamination in food, causing food poisoning and bacterial diarrhea. Children who consume foods contaminated with bacteria develop nausea, severe abdominal pain and diarrhea after 3-24 hours. They can also experience headaches or fever. Food poisoning often occurs in group catering, such as restaurants, parties, summer camps and kindergarten meals. Foods such as meats, fish, seafood, ham, salad, cream, eggs and milk often are a

LOS ANGELES ― Lapsed musical instrumentalists (and their disappointed parents): Take heart! The child that gets even a few years of formal musical training before quitting those weekly lessons continues to show evidence that his or her brain has been changed in ways that improve mental function, says a new study.The latest research found that even years after they stopped practicing, young adults who had taken as little as two or three years of instrumental music training in their elementary or

Use of digital devices at early age can do kids more harm than good, experts warnAs smartphones and tablet computers become more popular, more parents are using them to babysit their children, with plenty of apps available to entertain infants, toddlers and pre-school kids. “A smartphone and for-kids apps are a must for our family at restaurants, in the car or often at home,” said Kim Sun-min.Her 28-month-old daughter is a frantic fan of Pororo, the main character of TV animation series “Pororo

Shadow of NightBy Deborah Harkness (Viking)Deborah Harkness’ “Shadow of Night,” a sequel to her best-selling “A Discovery of Witches,” pretty much defines excellence in the literary subgenre of fluff.The term fluff, as devotees recognize, need not connote bad, as “Shadow” irresistibly proves. Under Harkness’ assured, witty hand, it remains feather-light over the course of nearly 600 pages, with plenty of suspense and a romance for the ages. Literally, as it happens.Spoiler alert: To discuss this

Kill DecisionBy Daniel Suarez (Dutton)The most interesting characters in Daniel Suarez’s new techno-thriller, “Kill Decision,” are a trained pair of ravens who hover over the good guys as guardian angels.That’s unfortunate.There are a lot of big ideas in this novel, which warns against a future where machines make even the ultimate decision ― to kill ― without human intervention.And I’m sure Suarez’s book will find many fans among tech heads and futurists. But his audience would be much larger,

If author Tina Folsom let big publishing stand in her way, she never would have become a millionaire.In 2010, after more than 30 literary agents and publishers rejected “Samson’s Lovely Mortal,” the first in her series about lusty vampires, the San Francisco romance writer decided to self-publish her book on Amazon.com.Today, Folsom, 46, has made it e-big. She has generated at least $33,000 a month since December 2010 selling her full-length books, novellas and short stories online. In November

Late Ven. Jigwan’s ambitious project comes together seven months after his deathJogye Order, the nation’s largest Buddhist sect, has published an English and ancient Chinese bilingual book series on the teachings of Korean Buddhism, it announced this week.The 13-volume series, titled “Collected Works of Korean Buddhism,” contains teachings of celebrated monks throughout Korean history, including Wonhyo (617-686), Jinul (1158-1210) and Hyujeong (1520-1604). The series’ Korean edition, translated