The decor seems to have changed little since then, but the restaurant serves rib-sticking MittelEuropean food such as goulash, schnitzel and roast goose to soak up the likes of Gambrinus and Budvar lager.

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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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It's astonishing to me that so many people I know have never had the roast-goose experience.

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The next step is to prepare a stuffing. (You can, of course, roast a goose without stuffing.) What kind of stuffing depends on the regional source of the recipe.

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