A visit to Lotus will allow you to quickly reassess some of your ideas about Chinese cuisine, while firmly reinforcing the other notions that have been bred over the years. This is probably one of the best places you could visit to have dim sum, whereas their regular à la carte menu offers a wide variety of choices for the discerning diner. The adventurous types can ask for the Chinese à la carte, now translated to English by popular request.

Lotus is a restaurant on a stationary boat in Lime harbour, and in the evenings when it is lit up, you might be forgiven if you imagined yourself in Hong Kong, looking out over the harbour! You could try the mussels in chilli and black bean sauce and move on to crispy aromatic duck for the main course although seafood, poultry and meat alternatives are aplenty. For seafood lovers, their signature dish of gargantuan prawns is worth trying. Finish with the toffee banana for dessert, and a bottle of wine from a comprehensive selection of Old and New world wines.