Celebrate The Year of the Rabbit at Empress by Boon in Authentic Cantonese Style

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Located successful America’s oldest Chinatown, Empress by Boon is 1 of San Francisco’s hottest culinary destinations led by Michelin-starred Chef Ho Chee Boon. With a nostalgic and festive vibe, it’s the cleanable spot to observe the Chinese New Year and invited the Year of the Rabbit.

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The cook has announced a peculiar 8 people prix fixe paper for Chinese New Year disposable January 23-27 for $168/person. Guests volition besides beryllium delighted by fortunate reddish envelopes and a accepted lion creation performance.

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In Chinese culture, the rabbit is the 4th of the zodiac signs and the luckiest of the 12 animals of the zodiac, symbolizing energy, elegance, and quality arsenic good arsenic quiet, clever, fertile and prosperous.

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The Chinese New Year paper starts with 5 tastes that see Perigord truffles puff, scallop caviar ovum roll, Iberico pork bun, Chilled caller Lily bulbs with ginger and honey, crispy oversea shrimp.

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Next is Crab Roe Xiao Long Bao, followed by the seafood courses of Abalone abdominous choy, Live Boston Lobster with saccharine chili sauce, and Grilled Chilean Sea Bass chromatic with fermented legume curd.

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The main courses reason with Dried Scallop, Peanut Rice Mushrooms, Dried Shrimp, and Lotus Seeds, and a rootlike people of Morel Mushrooms Bean Curd Box.

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For dessert, guests tin indulge successful the highly sought-after Egg Tart.

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Michelin-starred Executive Chef Ho Chee Boon leads the stellar culinary staff, applying accepted culinary techniques to fresh, often unexpected ingredients, Chef Ho offers distinctive, elevated dishes that make a memorable epicurean experience.

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Born successful Malaysia, Chef Ho is the erstwhile planetary enforcement cook of Hakkasan and has opened respective of its astir celebrated restaurants worldwide, including Hakkasan Hanway Place successful London, Hakkasan Mumbai, Hakkasan Dubai, Doha, Abu Dhabi , Ling-ling Morocco, Yauatcha Soho London, Turandot successful Moscow, and Breeze successful Bangkok. He relocated to the US successful 2012 to motorboat Hakkasan New York and different US cities. His planetary culinary expertise transforms immoderate edifice and its cuisine into a existent epicurean experience. Chef Ho's accepted techniques harvester caller ingredients from section purveyors to nutrient dishes that are some modern and with the essence of accepted Cantonese cuisine.

Chef Ho has assembled a halfway enforcement squad of experienced professionals, including pastry cook Rory MacDonald, formerly of Dessert Bar, Gordon Ramsey and Hakkasan. Macdonald volition connection a curated dessert paper that volition complement and heighten Chef Ho's modern Cantonese menu.

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The dishes refined, modern Cantonese flavors with a interaction of California seasonality. The regular prix fixe menu, well-suited to groups, features a flurry of tempting dishes that see skillfully made shrimp dumplings with truffle and summertime squash,  crispy fried chickenhearted successful a Malaysian curry condiment (a motion to the chef’s birthplace) served alongside fragrant lotus atom with dried scallop and shrimp.

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Empress by Boon besides boasts an extended vino database of apical planetary producers, each manus selected to ideally brace with Chef Ho's Cantonese cuisine. The eclectic database features a scope of well-known to much obscure labels and varietals allowing for some the novice and seasoned connoisseur to prime a vino to bask with ease. A good curated brew enactment that complements Chef Ho's cuisine is besides featured, including authentic Chinese brews.

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If you’re looking for an expertly curated cocktail, the paper reflects the volition to make unsocial offerings that amusement an appreciation for the time-honored classics portion besides introducing originative and unexpected ingredients for an added spin. Each cocktail complements the Cantonese flavors and cooking techniques for a cohesive experience.

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Empress by Boon's stunning interior plan features modern elements alongside restored features from the location's predecessor - the iconic Chinatown landmark Empress of China. The edifice boasts striking views of the territory and metropolis skyline from 3 vantage points, with each abstraction designed to showcase the unsocial aspects of each perspective.

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