Dinner begins with nine one-bite tastes presented on a colourful custom ceramic platter, illustrating the nine essential flavours of Chinese cuisine – sweet, salty, sour, bitter, spicy, sharp, nutty, numbing and smoky. Each of these flavours is woven gracefully into the dishes that follow, from silken egg tofu with golden caviar and sweet crunchy lily bulb to Sichuan Carabinero prawns. With just eight tables, this exclusive restaurant on the second floor of Chinese food emporium China Live is styled after private residential dining that’s popular in China.
