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2008/01/01

1. Restaurant of the Year: Whampoa Club Beijing

Like its already-successful counterpart in Shanghai, the Whampoa Club Beijing offers the epitome of contemporary Chinese cuisine, introducing new and revolutionary cuisines while preserving the traditions of Chinese cooking. Inspired by traditional Beijing recipes, every dish here is stunningly creative, delicious, and expensive.

2. Most Disappointing Restaurant of the Year: LAN Club

Nearly all the propaganda concerning this fusion restaurant emphasizes its “fine design and architecture,” instead of a restaurant’s essence: food. And it turns out that the work of a French designer and architect failed to meet with Chinese standards of beauty: it's too dazzling for a restaurant. Even worse is LAN’s neglect of its menu, which does not live up to its high price.

3. Best Fusion Restaurant of the Year: Wish Restaurant & Lounge Bar

Wish skilfully combines a green and inviting environment with food that you don’t want to miss and that is fashionable, simple, healthy and natural. A restaurant and lounge bar, Wish also takes pride in its afternoon teatime under its glass-ceiling “Sunshine Room” on the second floor and its long list of cocktails.

4. Best Malaysian Restaurant of the Year: awana

The first contemporary Malaysian restaurant in Beijing was opened at the entrance of Women’s Street in Beijing coinciding with “Visit Malaysia Year 2007.” Partly owned by the Malaysian Tourism Board, awana turns out to be a (cuisine) cultural ambassador by offering a fine dining environment where lovers of Malaysian food and culture can enjoy authentic Malaysian cuisine and explore Malaysian life by way of the kitchen.



	Article featured in Beijing This Month, January 2008 Publication sponsored by Information Office of the Beijing Municipal Government, Beijing Municipal Bureau of Tourism