THE Shang Garden at Futian Shangri-La, Shenzhen, has invited the culinary team from Shangri-La Hotel, Qufu, Shandong Province, to present authentic Kong family cuisine until April 26. Guests can experience the best quality food and service and the profound essence of Chinese culinary culture. Kong family (the family of Confucius) cuisine is a combination of Shandong regional Lu methods and Su cuisine from the south of China, prepared with unsparing attention to the ingredients, appearance, taste and shape. The dish names allude to auspicious meanings. Influenced by the Ming (1368-1644) and Qing (1644-1912) dynasties, Kong family cuisine centers around elaborate banquets, royal commemorations and religious ceremonies. To showcase the uniqueness and the essence of Kong family cuisine, the hotel has invited the culinary team from Shangri-La Hotel, Qufu’s Shang Palace to join the Shang Garden team. The team applies Shangri-La cooking methods to the traditional dishes. The three ingredients soup is a well-seasoned delicacy. It uses three ingredients (chicken, duck and pig trotters) and the cooking and simmering process must be repeated three times. Another typical Kong family dish is Kirin imperial book. The dish is commonly made with freshwater bass, but the Shang Palace chefs prefer sea bream, as its scales are rich in nutrition and it looks like Kirin once fried. A special recipe marinade has been created for the fish before cooking. Shangri-La’s Kong family cuisine menu embraces tradition with such items as peasants’ harvest (farm-style pancakes served with four condiments), wisdom frees perplexity (braised pork ribs stuffed with spring onion stalk) and Lu wall’s hidden collection (prawn roll wrapped in crispy vermicelli). In addition, based on Confucius’ six arts, the hotel introduced the contemporary six art cold appetizers (rites — spiced beef shanks; music — jellyfish salad; archery — spiced duck tongues; chariot racing — sea whelk jelly salad; calligraphy — scallop and lettuce salad; and mathematics — baby celery with sesame and olive oil). Specially chosen tea and wines that complement the unique style of food will also be served. Tel: 2151-3838 Add: 4088 Yitian Road, Futian District (SD News) | 