Top chef dishes up fusion cuisine across four Wanda properties

Wanda Hotels & Resorts is enhancing its edge in the high-end catering market with the Taste of Oriental Poetry by Brian McKenna, an event which features the Michelin-starred chef's creations subtly combining Asian produce and European style.

The event kicked off on April 13 at Wanda Reign Wuhan. It will also be held in three other luxurious Wanda properties－Wanda Vista Changsha, Wanda Vista Zhengzhou and Wanda Reign Shanghai－until May 31.

Brian McKenna, a British chef, rose to fame at 21 when he worked at the Michelin-starred restaurant Le Poussin in the United Kingdom as head chef. He has become widely acclaimed in the global catering industry with more than 30 years of exciting palates. According to the hotel brand, McKenna knows the Chinese market well and is good at creating cuisine favored by Chinese people.

To deliver an exquisite dining experience for guests, the Michelin-starred chef has offered a menu, which begins with an amuse-bouche of Focaccia bread and fruit rye bread with tomato, truffle jam and chicken butter. Appetizers include lightly poached oysters from France topped with beetroot puree and horseradish foam and king scallops in sea urchin ice cream and mandarin juice.

Main courses consist of Tandoori Boston lobster with carrot puree and chicken jus, braised pork belly, pickled carrot, ginger and coriander and M7 Wagyu beef with onions and beef tongue. Pre-dessert consists of a rose cake and macaroon topped with caviar.

Truffle spring dessert, coriander chocolate with mango sorbet and sweet puffed rice, and compressed watermelon with coconut sorbet and mint foam bring a novel end to the meal.

"Wanda Hotels & Resorts, as a Chinese hotel brand, has been constantly innovating catering brands, products and experiences that its catering business offers to guests," said Dong Jun, vice-president of the hospitality group.

"In the post-pandemic era, our guests and their modes of consumption are undergoing a transformation. This event is a natural, extreme and immersive feast of food and art, an in-depth exchange between Chinese and Western food and beverage cultures and an innovative marketing attempt. We hope that through this event, a new networking format over a nice meal can be presented to Chinese guests, which will give inspirations to other domestic starred hotels."