It's 10 a.m. and already the dim sum kitchen at the Ritz-Carlton Hong Kong is abuzz.

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This demanding group of busy travelers placed Singapore's Raffles, Tokyo's Park Hyatt, Bangkok's Oriental, the Ritz-Carlton Millenia in Singapore and Hong Kong's Mandarin Oriental, Regent and Peninsula (at No. 1) among their choices for the world's top international and city hotels.

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Chef Leung has specialized in dim sum for the past 35 years, having worked in Macau before moving to Hong Kong, when the Ritz-Carlton opened two years ago.

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