What Is Michelin Star Restaurant?
The term “Michelin Star” is used to refer the quality of meals and the restaurants over the world which is rated by Michelin Star Status. The prestigious rating done by Michelin is hilarious because the company does not deal with recreation or meals but rather is a tire company. Presently, the company has full-time workers who handle the anonymous restaurant reviewers. The anonymous reviewers always have a good vision of the meals, have a great passion for food, have wonderful taste memory, can recall and compare various varieties of meals. According to Lane (27), Michelin anonymous reviewers gives 0 to 3 stars in specific areas of food quality, mastery of technique, consistency of the food, and personality. The good thing with their rating is that they do not look into the table settings, interior décor and quality of service because they are likely to be abused on biasedness by the reviewers.
The reviewers award the stars as follows:
The reviewers award the stars as follows:
- One star; has a high standard, is a very good restaurant in its category and is a nice place that can attract for a stopover to a person on a journey.
- Two stars; has excellent cuisine, has a worth detour, dishes are skillfully prepared and are of outstanding quality.
- Three stars; has an exceptional cuisine, the restaurant is worth a special stopover, meals are extremely super and are prepared with superlative ingredients to make distinctive dishes.
The Only Michelin Three-Star Restaurant in Mainland China
Today, T’ang Court becomes the only Three Michelin-Starred Restaurant in Mainland China. It is lucky to taste dishes from Master Tan, Head Chef of T’ang Court at the Langham Shanghai Xintiandi. Here, genuine Cantonese gourmets are cooked in ancient approaches, with best ingredients, like grain-fed wagyu of Australia, Miniatus Grouper, and American lobster. All dishes from this Three Michelin-Starred Cantonese Restaurant are great, and they are properly priced, making it a great place for family dining. The Stir-fried Fresh Lobster with Spring Onions, Red Onions and Shallots is a signature. Australia lobsters of some 800g are selected for a great balance between tightness and tenderness, suitable for 6-8 guests. Shelled and chopped lobster is fried in high-temperature oil for medium rare, and stirred with yellow rice wine, soybean sauce, ground pepper, and sesame oil. This traditional Cantonese dish highlights the outstanding tenderness and taste of lobster coupled with the yellow rice wine and the smell of onions, red onions and shallot. T’ang Court is named after the prosperous Tang Dynasty, one of the heyday stages of China. Then, lives of all people were affluent, and people had elegant tastes, contributing to numerous classics to last in all fields. At T’ang Court, both the lobby and compartments are decorated with exquisite furniture and artistic dining tables. Outside is the bustling Shanghai Xintiandi. Enjoying classic Cantonese gourmets of high-quality in such a climate will for sure offer you an extraordinary experience of dignity and respect the noblemen enjoyed in the past age of prosperity.
The Only Michelin-Starred Roast Duck Restaurant
Foods are no longer the stuff only for filling the abdomen, but become a representation of certain attitude to life and the aesthetic taste. Facing the tide of globalization, food cannot be immune. However, the Chinese chefs are still in the leisure of carving radish flowers, cooking fish-flavored pork according to their masters’ instruction, hiding in the narrow kitchen and never watching the world outside, and contenting the “profound Chinese food culture”. They are becoming isolated islands on the way of pursuing color, fragrance, flavor and shape of food. The Shanghai shop is the only Da Dong Roast Duck shop opening the roast duck stove to the customers who can directly watch the whole process of roast duck roasted. The restaurant is filled with a faint atmosphere of the oven quite matching the occasion of winter. Speaking of roast duck, Da Dong claims its roast ducks as friable but not greasy. The fact is true. A whole piece of duck breast skin that dipped in sugar is the best test of the quality of roast duck skin. Roast ducks have sharp aroma, crisp and not greasy taste and no residue in the mouth. Close your eyes and slowly experience the feeling of melting duck skin in the mouth. Believe me, you will not want to open your eyes and even swallow the duck skin into the mouth. Such duck skin must have high quality roast duck as superior as famous Beijing roast duck. It will not let people down! The rest of the duck and skin can be eaten together with 8 kinds of dipping sauce and round flat cake or inflation cake. Duck skin is friable and fragrant with all fat roasted into the skin and duck with little greasy. Duck is tender, delicious and interesting.
A Taste of the Cantonese Dishes
Drawing on the essence of London’s contemporary culinary art, Hakkasan embodies traditional Cantonese cuisine in a brand new way. Different from the traditional fine dining concept, Hakkasan appeals to customers’ senses of sight, hearing, taste, smell and touch when they indulge themselves in the modern cuisine, thus showcasing the unique Chinese aesthetics.
Hakkasan has been awarded a Michelin star for multiple consecutive years and won culinary awards from numerous professional institutions in the culinary industry and top-notch lifestyle media. The secret of Hakkasan’s success lies in its unique brand element, each Hakkasan restaurant showcasing Chinese aesthetics with the unparalleled settings, atmosphere, music, aroma and lighting. On top of this, Hakkasan also integrates an ever-updating and comprehensive set of equipment, alluring cuisine and exceptional mixology, which has surely lent to Hakkasan Shanghai its exceptional charm.
Food in Hakkasan has a strong Chinese identity. The modern culinary style is underpinned by authenticity of ingredients, instead of the traditional Chinese cooking techniques. The menu focuses on Cantonese cuisine. With dishes such as cod with Champagne and Chinese honey as well as the most favored crispy duck salad, Michelin-starred chef Tong Chee Hwee has the world-class cooking techniques to bring unique and luxurious culinary experiences to customers.
Hakkasan has been awarded a Michelin star for multiple consecutive years and won culinary awards from numerous professional institutions in the culinary industry and top-notch lifestyle media. The secret of Hakkasan’s success lies in its unique brand element, each Hakkasan restaurant showcasing Chinese aesthetics with the unparalleled settings, atmosphere, music, aroma and lighting. On top of this, Hakkasan also integrates an ever-updating and comprehensive set of equipment, alluring cuisine and exceptional mixology, which has surely lent to Hakkasan Shanghai its exceptional charm.
Food in Hakkasan has a strong Chinese identity. The modern culinary style is underpinned by authenticity of ingredients, instead of the traditional Chinese cooking techniques. The menu focuses on Cantonese cuisine. With dishes such as cod with Champagne and Chinese honey as well as the most favored crispy duck salad, Michelin-starred chef Tong Chee Hwee has the world-class cooking techniques to bring unique and luxurious culinary experiences to customers.