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A breathtaking beautiful restaurant with a stunning view of Hong Kong Harbor, this is the highest rated Michelin rated Chinese restaurant (3 stars) in Hong Kong, no easy achievement. The quality of the dim sum ranked alongside that of the China Club, making this one of the two finest dim sum experiences of my life. In fact, some believe this is the greatest Chinese restaurant in the world, although that seems to be hyperbole. Nevertheless, this is a sensational restaurant. The lobster with coconut milk and chili over a bed of noodles and wonderfully cooked vegetables was to die for, as was the barbecued suckling pig. Outrageously crisp and succulent, it was every bit as brilliant as the baby suckling pig I had earlier that week at Fook Lam Moon. The view was beautiful at lunchtime, and it is undoubtedly even more remarkable at night. Some dishes that blew my mind were the grouper, which was steamed with soy and green onion, the hairy crab soup, the prawns with chili, and the hairy crab croquette. As for the wines, the 1990 Krug Clos du Mesnil Champagne (100% Chardonnay) was superb. Crisp and full-bodied, it tasted like a great white Burgundy with bubbles. We then moved to a brilliant flight of red wines, the only off bottle being the 1990 Montrose, which was disjointed and seemingly heat damaged. That was made up for with a spectacularly brilliant performance by the 1989 Rayas, which now seems to be moving in a direction that eclipses the once perfect 1990. We also enjoyed a gorgeously perfumed, magical 1990 Domaine de la Romanée-Conti Richebourg (along with 1999, my favorite vintage for DRC over the last twenty years). The other wines included the luxury, extravagantly rich, complex, single vineyard Côte Rôties from Guigal. The fully mature 1982 Guigal Côte Rôtie La Landonne needs to be drunk up. The silky, complex, extraordinarily aromatic 1985 Guigal Côte Rôtie La Mouline is pure perfection. In total contrast is the masculine, burly, super-concentrated, impressive, meaty, beef blood-scented 1983 Guigal Côte Rôtie La Landonne. All in all, this was a fabulous meal with 12-15 gorgeous dishes as well as spectacular wines.

A breathtaking beautiful restaurant with a stunning view of Hong Kong Harbor, this is the highest rated Michelin rated Chinese restaurant (3 stars) in Hong Kong, no easy achievement. The quality of the dim sum ranked alongside that of the China Club, making this one of the two finest dim sum experiences of my life. In fact, some believe this is the greatest Chinese restaurant in the world, although that seems to be hyperbole. Nevertheless, this is a sensational restaurant. The lobster with coconut milk and chili over a bed of noodles and wonderfully cooked vegetables was to die for, as was the barbecued suckling pig. Outrageously crisp and succulent, it was every bit as brilliant as the baby suckling pig I had earlier that week at Fook Lam Moon. The view was beautiful at lunchtime, and it is undoubtedly even more remarkable at night. Some dishes that blew my mind were the grouper, which was steamed with soy and green onion, the hairy crab soup, the prawns with chili, and the hairy crab croquette.

As for the wines, the 1990 Krug Clos du Mesnil Champagne (100% Chardonnay) was superb. Crisp and full-bodied, it tasted like a great white Burgundy with bubbles. We then moved to a brilliant flight of red wines, the only off bottle being the 1990 Montrose, which was disjointed and seemingly heat damaged. That was made up for with a spectacularly brilliant performance by the 1989 Rayas, which now seems to be moving in a direction that eclipses the once perfect 1990. We also enjoyed a gorgeously perfumed, magical 1990 Domaine de la Romanée-Conti Richebourg (along with 1999, my favorite vintage for DRC over the last twenty years). The other wines included the luxury, extravagantly rich, complex, single vineyard Côte Rôties from Guigal. The fully mature 1982 Guigal Côte Rôtie La Landonne needs to be drunk up. The silky, complex, extraordinarily aromatic 1985 Guigal Côte Rôtie La Mouline is pure perfection. In total contrast is the masculine, burly, super-concentrated, impressive, meaty, beef blood-scented 1983 Guigal Côte Rôtie La Landonne.

All in all, this was a fabulous meal with 12-15 gorgeous dishes as well as spectacular wines.