One floor below VEA (in the old VEA Lounge) Wing highlights the best of China's eight regional cuisines, using local produce and Western cooking techniques like dry-ageing of meats. Signatures that catch the eye include fragrant chili Alsakan king crab with cheeung fun, and chargrilled honey-glazed wagyu beef, plus crispy-skinned baby pigeon and seasonal vegetables with salted pork. Expect flavours that are both unctuous and often deeply complex.
Prices are not for the faint-hearted: the tasting menu weighs in at $1,580 per person and 1994 Petrus catches the eye at $28,000. But eagle-eyed connoisseurs will actually note that the latter price is well below current market retail prices – so snap it up quick! And the whole occasion is a 'big one', with wine taken extremely seriously including a nice variety of Chinese wines by the glass, alongside good stocks of Bordeaux, Burgundy and Champagne, including verticals of Krug dating back to 1981.