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.
Chinese medicine is an ancient practice which employs herbs and plants to treat myriad conditions of the body and mind. For many centuries, the Chinese have chosen to use this traditional method in preference to ‘modern’ medicine, believing its natural, drug-free approach to be more beneficial to the human body than man-made medicaments.
Wishing to honour this long tradition respectfully but not without a little humour, the team in our Shanghai Bar developed our list of ‘Cocktail Cures’ – recipes using just a few of the many hundreds of ingredients which practitioners of Chinese herbal medicine believe to be beneficial.
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We are delighted to announce that Hutong has become one of the first signatories of Visit Britain’s GREAT China Welcome Charter, which launched recently with a reception at Blenheim Palace.
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With such a wide array of tempting dishes on our menu, it can be difficult to choose what to enjoy at Hutong. To order the spicier, fiery dishes of Sichuan such as our Red Lantern soft-shell crab with dried chilli, or the more aromatic, tangy dishes of Shandong, like Boneless Dover sole in coriander-vinegar sauce?
Allow us to suggest the perfect solution – our Signature Menu, which for £68 per person presents eight of our most popular dishes, representing the many exciting facets of our cuisine, together with a selection of desserts.
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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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