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    Shanghigh

    Holiday Time, Noel Maclean, Published on 14/12/2018

    » It’s wiggle room only at street level on Surawongse but ascend to Yào Restaurant & Rooftop Bar’s high-flying lair at levels 32 of Bangkok Marriott The Surawongse, and you feel free and see far as a bird.

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    Crouching classics, Hidden Innovations

    Holiday Time, Noel Maclean, Published on 27/12/2017

    » If you’re the sort of Cantonese cuisine fan who doesn’t handle change well, you have nothing to worry about at Shang Palace, the Shangri-La Hotel Bangkok’s 2nd incarnation restaurant of that ilk: it’s never going to stop perfecting its ha gao with whole shrimp, Peking duck or monk jumped over the wall soup. But fads and fashions come and go, and inevitably some dishes fare better than others over the long haul.

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    Cantonese culinary couture

    News, Noel Maclean, Published on 04/12/2014

    » As in the world of fashion labels, restaurants that are institutions always have a name to live up to. You have to keep things fresh but you can't stray too far from the original identity and signatures.

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    Classic and creative Cantonese cuisine

    News, Noel Maclean, Published on 22/12/2014

    » You can Canton Chef Khor Eng Yew, Executive Chinese Chef at Summer Palace, to keep the restaurant on a tight track of expertly executed Cantonese classic dishes while also delivering enough new ideas to keep things interesting.

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    Trails from the riverbank

    Life, Noel Maclean, Published on 06/12/2012

    » Under the midday sun, the view from Trader Vic's multi-ethnic cuisine restaurant is of a broad reach of river flowing fast to the sea such as inspired Joseph Conrad's tales of hapless expats getting lost in translation. The Chao Phraya - River of Kings, if you will - feels steeped in history and continues to evoke an age of romance. Forgetting the condos rising along its edge and focusing instead on high-gloss rice barges turned gin palaces moored closer by, just the sight of it makes you feel like rowing out to a schooner moored midstream and setting sale for the fictional Vic's spiritual home in Polynesia. One might also imagine the legendary bon vivant stepping ashore and emerging between a riot of waxen foliage with his mates, like an earlier age Anthony Bourdain in search of exotic culinary sensations with which to treat his compadres on his eventual return home. The welcome, a Thai-style orchid garland hung around your neck in a thin rendition of the Hawaiian custom, adds more to the atmosphere.

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    Fabulous fount of Chinese Classical dining

    Life, Noel Maclean, Published on 18/12/2012

    » Chinese food fans tend to be a traditionally-minded bunch who expect certain elements of the experience to always be present. From rustic food shops to mandarin-worthy restaurants, there is a check list that proprietors play with at their peril.

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