An annual commitment?Sinasera deserves to shine with its out-of-the-world dining experience and sincere and beautiful dishes it has to offer.
When I returned to Taiwan earlier and stayed at Grand Formosa Regent Taipei, I had a chance to catch up with my friends for lunch so I specifically chose Silks House, a Michelin Guide Cantonese cuisine restaurant on the third floor of the hotel.
Focusing on crafting creative new Huaiyang cuisine, The Hut is known for having insisted on sourcing best quality ingredients and innovating Chinese cuisine with modern western techniques while maintaining the essential charm of oriental cooking styles.
The restaurant came to Shanghai last summer and has undergone two renovations in between, but I have already tried its summer, autumn and winter menus. The seemingly simple dishes are loaded with unpretentious skills and rock-solid knowledge of Chef Xu Jingye, who has made Guangzhou cuisine so purely classic yet elaborately eye-opening.
Now its previous rich Southern French flavours have recently been revamped by the new Executive Chef Ugo Rinaldo, who has embarked on a mission to give a new life to French cuisine through revisiting old favorites with a modern refreshing twist.
he founder of Nan Xing Yuan, Deng Huadong, has brought traditional “Nan Tang" dishes to Shanghai, bringing back to life the intricate hospitality and refined subtlety of Chinese fine dining.
Fengtian Restaurant is special. For Shenyang, it’s a beacon of spearheading the avant-garde for the city.
After picking up a Michelin star, the famous Peking duck restaurant Sheng Yong Xing has landed in Shanghai.
As these fine dining chefs are willing to challenge themselves against top-notch Chinese ingredients with their refined skills and talent, we might as well open our mind and show appreciation so that new looks of Western food can shine through in this foreign land.
The city of Shanghai has an early history of nurturing western-style bistros predominantly run by local foreigners. But recent years have seen them become a stage for young Chinese returnees, who have sniffed the huge potential of China’s food and beverage market.