Trainee journalist | Zhong Lingyun
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Recently, the New Zealand Manuka honey brand Convita held a press conference in the New Zealand Center in Shanghai to promote the brand's recently listed high-end series of Manuka honey products - Convita UMF25+, known as "gilded honey", and officially announced actor Zhang Junning as the first global brand spokesperson.
Founded in 1974, the Convita brand is currently the only New Zealand listed company that produces and sells Manuka honey. Manuka honey is brewed by bees from the nectar of manuka trees, and manuka trees grow in remote areas of New Zealand, which is very difficult to collect honey, coupled with a short flowering period, a normal flowering period of only about three weeks a year, so Manuka honey is extremely precious, and the current production accounts for less than 1% of the total global honey production. Convita's latest UMF25+ Manuka honey is the most precious product in the Convita family to date, with a worldwide sales limit of 9,800 copies.
This year, The Pine bid farewell to the water towns of Jiangnan and began exploring another iconic region on China's vast culinary map. This time, they came to Bashu, a fiery place with abundant products, and presented a Chinese-style French menu of "Mirror Flower Shu Yue".
Chef Lee Kar-wai uses The Pine's Chinese French cuisine as the core concept to introduce the unbridled and spicy Sichuan flavor elements into the French cuisine. Inspired by the representative ingredients and spices of Sichuan and Chongqing, such as chili peppers, rattan peppers, and peppercorns, we reinterpret exquisite French cuisine. Black pork head meat jelly with garlic paste, French cuisine interprets the white meat of sichuan cuisine, kimchi family portrait, with different colors and different types of kimchi made of a mini version of the "nine palace grid", symbolizing the "one dish and one grid, a hundred dishes and a hundred flavors" of Sichuan-Chongqing food culture characteristics. Each dish is full of French romance in spring and summer, while at the same time embellishing the distinct Sichuan-Chongqing flavor.
Recently, Four Seasons Hotel Cotai Strip at West Lake was ranked 89th in the 2021 Asia Top 50 Restaurants 51-100 award list, and for four consecutive years, the Black Pearl Restaurant Guide Three Diamond Restaurants. To celebrate this prestigious occasion, Four Seasons Hotel Hangzhou, together with Pinnacle PINOR, Pinnacle SommelIer Academy, and SSI International Sake Brewer, boldly and innovatively paired Chinese food with Japanese sake to present guests with an 11-course and three-style sake gourmet feast. Chef Wang Yong of Jinsha Hall presented this time included snail spring shoots perilla pomegranate bun, red oil soaked Xishi milk bean flower, braised turtle flower gum stewed rice, loquat jelly jelly jelly, dessert bird's nest mung bean cake and so on.
"Asia's Top 50 Restaurants and Dianping Black Pearl are both authoritative awards in the catering industry, and are highly recognized by Master Wang Yong and the service level of Sands Hall, and the team of Sands Hall is honored to provide guests with a gastronomic experience and quality service beyond expectations." Mr. Mai Bohan, general manager of Four Seasons Hotel Hangzhou Xizi Lake, said.
The package runs from 16 April 2021 to 15 May 2021 and is priced at RMB 2,600 per person, starting from 8 persons, subject to 15% service charge and reservation made two days in advance.
Spring is in full bloom, and it's time for picnics again. Bring a Fortnum & Mason Funan Mason Picnic Basket Bar with exquisite refreshments and teas for an exquisite picnic. The tea bags are designed for easy brewing, suitable for carrying around and outdoor enjoyment. There are elderflower, strawberry and rose soaking tea, apricot, honey and lavender soaking tea, rose and violet soaking tea, three flavors can meet everyone's different taste buds. Butter crisp biscuits are available in large-capacity boxes for friends to share, the rich butter aroma makes people can't help but move their fingers, and the sweet and crispy texture complements different drinks, which is most suitable as an embellishment when chatting. The light and refreshing bubble tea of bubble tea can effectively neutralize the rich sweetness, while the multi-layered compound flavor is embellished with fruit, Darjeeling tea and jasmine fragrance for dessert, which complement each other and bring rich taste. Customers can choose to buy on Funan Mason WeChat public account.
Recently, Mercedes me Store, Mercedes me fashion restaurant under the Shanghai Bund experience store and Sifang Sanchuan Chinese Restaurant were newly launched. While retaining the classic dishes of Sifang Sanchuan such as: Beijing traditional roast duck, Sanchuan green pepper fish, lemongrass garlic flavor and sand bone, Shangxin further combines the taste of the gang, YunguiChuanyu ingredients with Cantonese cooking concept of less oil and less salt, and the updated dishes include cold dishes, soups, seafood, meat, vegetables and desserts. The chef looked for inspiration from his famous dishes and moderately added Sichuan-style cooking techniques.
The duck skin is served with fine truffles and red wine foie gras, the foie gras tastes slightly sour, and the duck skin is matched, the outside is crisp and tender; the black pork five flowers are cooked with the traditional Method of Haipai braised pork, stewed with Shunan dried beans and spicy sauce, the meat of the dish is soft and sticky, fat and not greasy; Osmanthus wine brewing is an authentic Shanghai flavor, with medicinal and food dual-purpose tonic yam, the sweet and sour taste bursts between the teeth, opening the beauty code of eating and nourishing the face.
Recently, Perrier launched the "Murakami Takashi Inspiration Limited Series" for the global market. The collection combines the iconic painting elements of artist Takashi Murakami: Sunflower, Kaikai & Kiki to the Perrier Original Collection's 330ml classic glass bottle, 500ml PET plastic bottle and 250ml canned products, giving the classic little green bottle a new vibrant color and vitality. In order to deepen the organic interaction between the Perrier brand and consumers, Perrier launched the Douyin Challenge #Laugh Together# on April 10, with the intention of passing the fun and vitality of this cross-border to consumers through the fun and interesting Douyin national task form. In addition, Perrier will successively create art interactive installations "Fancy Bubbling" and outdoor large-scale art flower walls in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Chengdu, Wuhan and other places, so that the whole people can experience the moment of inspiration and blossom.
Shanghai's second Chi Lok Fong restaurant officially opened in April 2021, offering more than 200 dishes such as pasta, burgers, seafood, steaks and salads. The restaurant has more than 20 cheesecakes to choose from, including original cheesecake, fresh strawberry cheesecake, chocolate mousse cheesecake and red velvet cheesecake. In addition, Shanghai Henyep Taikoo Hui will also launch a weekday lunch special selection to enrich the choices of office workers.
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