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Decadent Cantonese Cuisine | 22.11.2011
There is a saying in Chinese: Eat in Guangdong. Other parts of China may be famous for their beautiful women or breathtaking scenery, but when it comes to food, Guangdong reins supreme. Guangdong, or Cantonese cuisine is also the best-known Chinese regional cooking in the world. Because of the mass...
Gourmet Bush Cuisine | 23.03.2011
For the past few years I have combined a trip back to Australia to see family with a two-week camping retreat to a secret location accessible only by boat. We spend our days walking along kilometres of white sand, swimming in immaculately clean waters and fishing in the river. I happily let go of as...
Gourmet Dining - St. George | 13.01.2011
The first time I tried chef Philippe Orrico's food was when he was a protege of Pierre Gagnaire. I did not enjoy the food and as a result did not rush out to eat at St. George when Orrico joined Hullet House. I was therefore surprised by my recent (and first time) meal at St. George....
Decadent Dining - Jordi Roca | 12.04.2010
The saying goes if you can't get into El Bulli try El Celler de Can Roca. The three-Michelin star restaurant is the brainchild of the three Roca brothers Joan, Josep and Jordi. It was voted the 5th Best in the world in last year's Top 50 Best Restaurants by Restaurant magazine, an increase of 21 pla...
Decadent Dining - Cuisine Cuisine at ifc | 10.02.2010
Award-winning restaurant, Cuisine Cuisine at ifc, another Miramar Group restaurant, offers guests the best of Canton in elegant and contemporary surrounds with impeccable service. Diners are always impressed by the surprising combination of traditional and nouvelle Cantonese cuisine along with one o...
International Dining - Shanghai | 09.12.2009
On a recent trip to Shanghai I decided to dine at three hotel restaurants that are relatively new that have Hong Kong connections. Each offers the diner a different experience and each is a restaurant that I would return to again. I highlight those dishes that I found memorable and give you some det...
Le 188° Restaurant & Lounge | 12.08.2009
The expectation you have as a diner of the food experience you will have can be influenced by many factors. For example, if you are dining at a home-style, neighbourhood place you will have very different expectations than if dining at a Michelin star restaurant. External factors such as location, a...
Decadent Dining - Mandarin Grill + Bar | 11.02.2009
Having interviewed the executive chef of The Mandarin Oriental (Hong Kong), Uwe Opocensky in late 2007, shortly after he joined, I was immediately struck by his passion and his impressive credentials. I was lucky at that time to have tried a couple of his dishes. Clearly influenced by time spent at...
Decadent Dining – Zuma | 10.11.2008
The latest celebrity chef to hit town is Rainer Becker with Zuma, the sister restaurant to the award-winning London restaurant of the same name. This is a restaurant that sets out to impress, from its sheer size – 10,000 sq. ft, to the high ceilings and enormous granite boulders that jut out in scul...
Decadent Dining – Aspasia | 10.11.2008
The restaurant Aspasia is named after the Greek beauty who unlike most women of her time (5th Century) was highly educated, consorted with leaders and mixed with some the greatest minds of her generation. She was innovative and independent. Likewise the restaurant stands out from the crowd with its...
Hotel Dining – The Bostonian | 10.11.2008
The Bostonian restaurant in the Langham Hotel has been making the top restaurant lists for many years for both its food and wine, including 2007 with an award from Wine Spectator magazine for one of the best wine lists in the world!...
Hotel Dining – Santa Lucia Restaurant & Lounge | 10.11.2008
Santa Lucia is the flagship restaurant in the recently open Hotel Panorama in Tsim Sha Tsui, the sister property of Hotel LKF. Heading up the kitchen is Nathan Hogan, who used to be the executive chef at Hotel LKF’s restaurant Azure. I was looking forward to going to Santa Lucia for dinner as I had...
International Dining – Auckland | 10.11.2008
Aucklanders are proud of their country’s produce, rightly so, you name it, and there is a high chance you will find someone in New Zealand growing it or farming it. Standouts include the free-run venison, excellent beef, succulent oysters and superb seafood, award-winning olive oil, and decadent blu...
Hotel Dining – Le Soleil | 01.07.2008
Vietnamese restaurant Le Soleil is award-winning chef Dennis Wong’s second restaurant of the same name. The San Francisco original has been voted the city’s best Vietnamese restaurant in addition to receiving numerous awards and much praise. When I learnt that Dennis Wong was actually cooking at...
Hotel Dining – Felix | 01.05.2008
With an amazing view, five-star service and those famous men’s toilets, Felix at The Peninsula is a well-known restaurant. I had eaten there a couple times over the years and was thrilled at the prospect of a return visit to sample the contemporary cuisine of the new executive chef Ashton Hall....
Kee Club | 01.04.2008
Executive chef of the Kee Club's restaurant Gianluigi Bonelli, has worked in four 3-Michelin star restaurants - El Bulli, The Fat Duck, Le Calandre and Don Alfonso. Bonelli is an avant-garde chef whose culinary creations provoke all the senses and fully engage the mind....
International Dining – Oscillate Wildly (Sydney, Australia) | 01.03.2008
Before booking I did a little research about the latest Sydney “It” restaurant, Oscillate Wildly. One review spoke of its five-course degustation for the bargain price of $52 (approx HK$350). It then went on to say that this was about to change. This was indeed the case when I booked, as I was told...
Decadent Dining – Opia | 10.11.2007
The restaurant Opia is about vision. The word itself means vision in Greek and was chosen to reflect the visual nature of the interior, which in turn was designed to reflect the visual and textural sensuality of the cuisine. The cuisine is the creation of executive chef, Dane Clouston, who is a man...