To celebrate both the first anniversary of our opening later this month and the ancient tradition of the Dragon Boat Festival, we are excited to announce our sponsorship of the Hutong Anniversary Cup at the London Hong Kong Dragon Boat Festival, starting from 2014.
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Our very special ‘Double Fifth’ menu marking the Dragon Boat Festival is available from today until Monday 2nd June, and the final stop on our culinary tour of China is Suzhou, in the east of the country about 6o miles from Shanghai.
Suzhou is best known for its exquisite gardens and the canal network, now sadly mostly lost to development, for which the city was once known as ‘the Venice of the Orient’. The gardens however remain, and their delicate appearance is reflected in the subtlety of the region’s cuisine.
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Few dishes could better represent the famously fiery cuisine of Sichuan, one of the five regions to feature on our ‘Double Fifth’ menu earlier this year, than our Ma la chilli prawns. ‘Ma la’ comes from two Chinese characters meaning, respectively, ‘numbing’ 麻 and ‘spicy (hot)’ 辣 and describes the sensation in the mouth the dish creates.
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Continuing our journey through the culinary regions of China, leading up to our Dragon Boat Festival celebrations later this month, this week we travel north to Shandong. Shandong’s exquisite cuisine, also known as Lu cuisine, features widely on our menu, but for this special menu our chefs have created a completely new dish.
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Continuing from last week’s introduction to our special ‘Double Fifth’ menu marking the tradition of the Dragon Boat Festival, our culinary voyage this week takes us to Guangdong, the populous south-east coastal province.
Monday 2nd June marks a very special date in the Chinese lunar calendar. As the fifth day of the fifth lunar month, it is the day of the traditional Dragon Boat Festival, an ancient tradition dating back to the death of China’s revered patriot poet Qu Yuan on that day in 278BC.
The Shanghai Bar at Hutong has always been a popular place for guests to enjoy a cocktail or glass of Champagne before or after dining with us. Also open to non-diners, the bar has indeed become a destination in its own right, thronged with a lively clientele of local business-people, international visitors and Londoners celebrating special occasions.
Now guests can enjoy the Shanghai Bar for longer, as it’s now open continuously from when the restaurant opens at midday until it closes at 11pm. The bar previously closed between lunch and dinner service but demand has been such that we are happy to now throw open its doors all day.
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As part of our Chinese New Year celebrations at Hutong we are delighted to bring to London the traditional Lo Hei (撈起) salad.
Lo Hei is a fortune- and prosperity-bringing dish at Chinese New Year. Its origins date back more than 750 years to the days of the Song Dynasty, when fishermen along the coast of China would celebrate the seventh day of Chinese New Year, known as Renri or ‘everyone’s birthday’, with this fresh fish and diced vegetable dish.
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We are greatly looking forward to celebrating our first Chinese New Year at Hutong, and have some exciting activities planned to make it a very special occasion.
Until February 14th – the end of Chinese New Year – four specially-created cocktails ‘Fortune’, ‘Happiness’, ‘Wealth’ and ‘Longevity’ will be available in the Shanghai Bar, using ingredients which are believed to bring or denote these four themes of celebration.
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