Tommy gets two glasses of wine on the table and asked me to guess which is which. One of the Shabelle and the other La Rioja.Clearly, one white and one red. But what if you can not see the wine, and are exactly the same temperature, and I was sitting in total darkness in the back room of the commercial center of Hong Kong? It was not easy.
Welcome to wine tasting in the dark, a new experiment designed to challenge your palate. For 90 minutes, you waive the hearing, the idea is to increase the other senses. This is the latest company through dialogue in the dark, a social institution designed to raise awareness of blindness, which also started to eat in the dark. Only at the end made me discover that the visually impaired Tommy, who had been serving without problems. It is a realistic experience. They also destroyed a long time since my conviction that I know nothing about wine. "This is clearly Rioja" that down in the black. Of course, it CHABLIS.
The humiliation is not what came to Hong Kong to experience. Of course, nor is it European wine. But then, what I can expect from this former colony, and clinging to the edge of China? As the trading floor in the East, and Hong Kong has a history of luxurious entertainment companies. Earlier this month, taking into account the constellation of Michelin stars for restaurants, Hong Kong, including the third L'Atelier 'Joel Robuchon. Alain Ducasse was also the second star of the bucket at the Intercontinental Hotel, now one of the 13 two-star restaurants here, and has been selected 11 groups of restaurants, a new star in the Michelin Guide last.
In 2008, the government reduced import duties on wine at all, which coincided with China's growing obsession with the quality of French wines, and today, you can not move Margo bottles. At the Hotel Intercontinental, where my room is filled with glass wall of a hotel bar with 4,300 bottles of wine. I feel drunk look.
Upon my arrival is the opening of the annual festival of wine and dinner, so I turn to the West Kowloon Park. Before I was in Hong Kong - a hedgehog legs skyscraper at the corner of the earth - not just a small part of the image. And it extends into the possession of former British prime minister for more than 200 islands, although most of the population of 7 million people live in the sea urchin, a powder along the northern edge of the island of Hong Kong. Across the water on the Kowloon peninsula, attached to the mainland. This is where the festival takes place - and the best views and look at the island of Hong Kong.
At the Festival of wine and dine busy: More than 200 stalls set up a wine and snacks provided resources for food facilities: Serrano pork satay sticks and sizzling shrimp, but the focus is on the wine.Basically, fair trade, but anyone who comes, and they do not.Students, homemakers and trendies - I'm talking to everyone is an expert. Only in its third year, which is already well established in the festival. Hong Kong is the kind of place. Things are moving quickly.
Also found the next day for a walk "Wine and Art", organized at the Intercontinental Hotel, and part of the mountain road in the city of Hollywood, and Xiong, West Central District. An exhibition of photographs showing the old colonial city in his prime, now competing skyscrapers and magnificent palaces stood. Nothing remains, despite Hollywood Boulevard tracks in the past: a huge old tree escape the walled garden of the palace of red brick, and we are still some cobblestone streets. He listed the art, and spending on food and restaurants and bars hit the streets of Chile, in the central region, on a steep hill with lift top of the world, works even in the middle. (Like Excel here. Later that night I have a cocktail in the hotel first in the world, The Ritz-Carlton, which occupies 16 floors of the center of international trade in recent opening, and the fourth tallest building in the least is at the moment. Things are changing rapidly in this case, as I said.)
But toward the elevator. Opened in 1993 and has not yet been beaten, according to the Guinness Book of Records. At a distance of 800 meters, is designed to encourage passengers between downtown and the downtown in the morning, and run down, with workers at the center, then at 10:30, changing direction to move up until midnight. It is the only drawer long though: you can go up and down on a regular basis (there are 20 separate steps in total, with a total vertical climb of 135 meters), and best of all, free.
For the gourmet, this is an experiment similar to the restaurants with the conveyor belt sushi, but on the move. Going up, going through the streets with distinctive English names: Elgin, Wellington, Stanley Gage.
It is 14 years since Chris Patten officially handed over Hong Kong to China. I realize that was painted green boxes, and the Queen's head has fallen into the seals. However, English remains the official language, and you get an occasional burst of nostalgia for empire. As at the corner of Stanton Street, where London was suspended for a huge underground says "Yorkshire Pudding", I say that you have found the "Best British" Café, serving a full English breakfast.
I'm the last roll, and a few doors down, even sakes, to open the bar and only Robatayaki the restaurant, where food is cooked on an open fire. Recognized is the Japanese way, but this is part of the city: You can get anything you want here. Four different tasting, related to various sweet and savory dishes, and reveals how a variety of rice wine can be.
Gourmet menus to be the theme of the lunch that day, and 10 cycles. I'll be back at the Hotel Intercontinental, which is not less than five restaurants including a Michelin star places: the spoon Nobu and Alain Ducasse. I plump for the option of only Chinese Heen Yan, and remorse immediately after the breakfast buffet greed.
At first glance, dishes, small enough: this is the dim sum, which the Chinese eat all day and a snack. The problem is that they keep coming. Then the scallop shell crab stuffed sole stuffed followed by shrimp and golden turnip puff pastry with a creamy crabmeat. Grilled Duck seems, and soon found ourselves in the Wagyu beef and sweet flesh cubic black scales, which is the result that he was told to play the guitar in cattle. To finish with mango and sago soup.
Who can blame my palate, if that was not quite what to do when I went to a wine tasting in the dark? They put through the steps: I've eaten 10 kinds of fish, 12 types of seafood and meat that were alive 10 minutes before, and on my last night on the town, and chicken feet. That has made the Hajj and that is Tim, and, at first glance seems to be no cheap Chinese buffet, but less in the restaurant world, Michelin star. In fact I went to his sister's restaurant recently opened in the Sham Shui Po, and perhaps at least part of the resort town, as to go to the main branch, over an area of Mong Kok happens, you have to wait for three hours.Floating in the price of HK $ 10 (80p) per session, and the most expensive dish is £ 3. However, chicken legs? Battered and accelerator lightly in orange and viscous in the first connection to the disk. The last day, and
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