Invited by HowToTrip’s Tainan Crystal Hotel, Hong Kong’s Michelin one-star Hangzhou Restaurant makes its first-ever Taiwan appearance

▲ Hangzhou Beggar’s Chicken. (Photo / Provided by Tainan Crystal Hotel, the same below)

Travel Center / Comprehensive Report

Michelin-starred chef pop-up dinners are now available in southern Taiwan too. This year, Tainan Crystal Hotel has specially invited the team from Hong Kong’s Michelin one-star "Hangzhou Restaurant" to cross the strait and collaborate with Taiwan’s banquet king Chef Ah Yong and renowned Cantonese chef Chef Ah Qiang. The dinner is priced at NT$19,800 for a table of ten or NT$1,980 per person.

The Hong Kong-based Hangzhou Restaurant’s Chef Wu Ruikang, invited by Tainan Crystal Hotel, is widely known as the “heir of Hangzhou cuisine.” Born into a family of chefs in Hangzhou with four generations of culinary heritage, his father Wu Guoliang is hailed as Hangzhou’s top chef. Chef Wu Ruikang’s Hangzhou Restaurant in Hong Kong is the world’s first Hangzhou-style restaurant to be awarded a Michelin one-star.


▲ Tainan Crystal Hotel’s “Triumvirate Chefs’ Banquet” – Chef Wu Ruikang of Hong Kong’s Hangzhou Restaurant (left), Tainan Crystal Hotel’s Executive Chef Lu Weiqiang (center), and southern Taiwan’s banquet king Chef Ah Yong (right).

This dining event features a collaboration among the three celebrity chefs, with a menu that includes “Appetizer Treasure Platter,” “Selection of Three and Five Delicacies,” “Golden Dragon Seafood Bird’s Nest Shark’s Fin,” “Original Abalone Lucky Draw,” “Smoked Codfish,” “Braised Glass Noodles,” “Su-Hang Dongpo Pork,” “Longjing Shrimp,” “Hangzhou Beggar’s Chicken,” “Sea Cucumber Fish Balls,” and a finale of “Private Selection Dim Sum Platter” featuring Hangzhou-style brown sugar sponge cake and Cantonese snow mountain honey-glazed BBQ pork buns.


▲ Classic Hangzhou dish “Longjing Shrimp.”