Tin Lung Heen, its Cantonese restaurant, which recently gained its second Michelin star under chef de cuisine Paul Lau, churns out 700-1, 400 pieces of dim sum a day, ranging from simple vegetarian mushroom to a gourmet house specialty of roast goose with abalone.

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One of the best examples is Lung King Heen, the Michelin-starred restaurant at the Four Seasons Hotel Hong Kong, where chef Chan Yan Tak has added duck liver and black truffles to pork dumplings, and invented new dim sums, like abalone baked in a cup of flaky puff pastry.

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These include The Principal, which serves creative, modern European dishes under the watchful eye of a chef who hails from the Canary Islands, steak haven Strip House, and Zhejiang Heen, which delivers lauded homestyle renditions of signature dishes such as braised pork belly and squid from Zhejiang, a coastal Chinese province south of Shanghai known for its tender, fresh seafood.

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