Provincial specialities at Feng Wei Ju

New to the Chinese restaurant line-up at StarWorld Hotel is Feng Wei Ju, specialising in Sichuan and Hunan cuisine and headed by executive chef Chan Chak-keong, who took a year to search for local recipes and talent prior to the restaurant's opening.

We started the meal with the chilled preserved duck egg and cherry tomatoes in red wine. The sharply sweet and alcoholic note of the tomatoes was appetite-whetting. The superior soup dumplings Dalian-style came next, filled with savoury crab soup and each served in a traditional Chinese tripod dish. We found the dumplings' skin to be hard and thick. The chef says an authentic northeastern-style dumpling is made only with flour from Inner Mongolia.