Chinese Speaking - Dish upon a star

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CITYLIFE / Eating Out






Dish upon a star


By Xiao Changyan (Beijing Weekend)
Updated: 2007-08-10 10:10







Fancy a dinner date with Chinese actress Gao Yuanyuan. It's as easy as
heading to her new Honey Honey restaurant.

Tucked away in Shangdu SOHO, the 100-square-meter restaurant looks more
like an elegant bar or an upmarket bookstore. Its decor includes crystal
curtains, a nicely patterned velvet sofa, and big Chinese wash paintings
on the walls. As one of three owners of the restaurant, the Shanghai
Dreams star is often spotted there dining with friends.

As her first such venture, Gao said she was reluctant to use her fame to
promote the business, so doesn't display any of her pictures or posters
at the restaurant. "But the food here is recommendable, Gao said. "My
most favorite dishes include fern stir-fried smoked pork, sour-spicy rice
noodles, sour fish soup. Featuring authentic Guizhou cuisine, the
restaurant's specialties include pig's trotter hotpot, rice balls fried
with pickled Chinese cabbage, and honey chops. According to Gao, making
pig's trotter hotpot is complicated. First, kidney beans are boiled and
pureed, then some special spice is added and pig's trotters, and boiled
over a slow fire for several hours. The hotpot therefore takes on an
alluring smell and tastes appetizing.


Gao said she loves the taste of rice balls fried with pickled Chinese
cabbage, a special dish for Guizhou locals that is sweet and sticky, but
at the same time sour and spicy. Honey chops is another dish that earns
the restaurant its name. Chops are first pickled with secret sauce, then
steamed and covered with special sauce. Average price: 150-200 yuan for
two.

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Honey Honey restaurant
Location: 3rd floor, west tower, Shangdu SOHO
Tel: 010-59003106
Open: 10am-10pm.























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