{"id":9302,"date":"2015-01-12T09:54:54","date_gmt":"2015-01-12T14:54:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thatdope.com\/food-drinks\/hong-kongs-vicky-lau-is-asias-best-female-chef\/"},"modified":"2015-01-12T09:54:54","modified_gmt":"2015-01-12T14:54:54","slug":"hong-kongs-vicky-lau-is-asias-best-female-chef","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thatdope.com\/food-drinks\/hong-kongs-vicky-lau-is-asias-best-female-chef\/","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong\u2019s Vicky Lau is Asia\u2019s best female chef"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Hong Kong chef Vicky Lau has been named the best female chef in Asia for creating a menu of \u2018edible stories\u2019 at her French-Asian restaurant.<\/p>\n

Lau has taken the title of Veuve Clicquot Asia\u2019s Best Female Chef 2015 for her cuisine at the Michelin-starred\u00a0Tate Dining Room and Bar, an intimate 26-seat restaurant that plays with flavors, textures and colors to create a multi-course dining narrative.<\/p>\n

Lau\u2019s background as a graphic designer and artist manifests itself in her cuisine and culinary concept.<\/p>\n

Menus are created thematically, written to tell an \u2018edible story\u2019 with dishes verging on the playful, philosophical and cerebral.<\/p>\n

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The latest \u2018Sensualist\u2019 winter menu, for instance, starts with a plate of \u2018Winter Sea,\u2019 with black truffle scallop espuma, crab meat, yuzu gelee, jelly fish and caviar.<\/p>\n

To convey the wintry peaks of Mont Blanc, Lau assembles a plate of roasted chestnut veloute, pork belly, wild boar ragout and black pepper tart shell.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThis award rewards her skill, imagination and artistry, and recognises the originality and verve that Vicky brings to Asia\u2019s dining scene,\u201d said editor William Drew, of The World\u2019s 50 Best Restaurants.<\/p>\n

Watch Lau explain one of her culinary odes to Belgian surrealist artist Rene Magritte, a green candy apple made with blown sugar and orange<\/em><\/p>\n