tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-316168572011-09-06T04:17:25.433+02:00Crunchy Food & Beverage Trends - Tasty News - Spicy Addresses from Asia and further.We are thirsty of your comments and drink it on aworldoffood@hotmail.comAworldoffood@hotmail.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16418278687681886291noreply@blogger.comBlogger181100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31616857.post-10629378465244265352007-10-05T10:41:00.000+02:002007-10-05T11:12:50.807+02:00

Everywhere hotels are turning "Boutique".Successfull websites such as Mr&Mrs Smith or Splendia are now specialized into room reservation for boutique hotels.China has catched the trend and you can now find couples of small hotels with caracters as our list below show you. (Although the environment, settings and architectural and decoration features have characters, there is no certainty that the

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A couple of months ago, we were already talking about IllyCaffe and its new cafe concept. And now it comes back under the spotlight with a JV in Hong Kong.Cafe de Coral Holdings has expanded into the high-margin coffee business by forming a joint venture to open 28 Italian-style coffee bars in Hong Kong and Macau over the next five years.The venture in which Cafe de Coral has a 70% stake and

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Before being a profitable business ( 20% net profit margin for the big players), coffee making is an art and the bean buzz that encounter all corners of our small planet push the technics further.While Starbucks is buying back the franchises in China, Illy (with a joint venture with Cafe de Coral - mainlaind fast food chain) is targetting to open in mainland China, Hong and Macau, more than 30

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 A friend forwarded me the following article from the Wall Street Journal. It greatly summaries the Chinese restaurant business development. It is written by BLYTHE YEE with the contributon of Mei Fong from Beijing. Even the size is pretty long for a blog it worth it, enjoy !January 26, 2007HONG KONG -- When Bill Milewski was invited to the launch of a Chinese restaurant in Beijing last October,

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What exactly is the attraction to conveyor belt-driven sushi ?Well, some will say price for one thing, but that tiny piece of rice-made-dish is the conqueror of 21st century eateries, and this is surely for more reasons than that.This is the begining of our investigating journey to sushi-land.First,  we found a great introduction with that video  The Japanese Tradition.We'll see you when the rice

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We have been receiving numerous comments on bars and restaurant by a friend, who has three particularities (among surely many others that I won't reveal here):One, he has a lot of friends and a extremly large family, so he ends up all the time with buddies visiting him, and of course he has to entertain them with food and drinks.Two, he has a generous boss who likes to treat him with nice

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What's better than an indulgence of a Laksa noodle bowl for a lunch-time break in Singapore ? This is the question I am keeping asking myself after a short week end there.We started with an early morning breakfast in one of these great food court that you find on every street corner in Singapore. We did not know that the boiled eggs were partly cooked and had to be kept 10 minutes inside the hot

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Part of our "Crunchy Addresses" section we wanted to bring you out some tips (found in Time Asia Setp.11-06) about places with strong character where you can get good food and drinks - basically where you can enjoy life while you are savouring the bustling city of Bangkok.Just as one waits ages for a bus only to have three come along at once, so Bangkok finds itself surfeited these days with

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At the begining of the month (August 06) into our article "A world of wellness Cafes" we were talking about that trend of providing tasty and healthy conscious food and drinks in a fast/take away service style.The top Catalan chef, Ferrán Adrià, opened a new concept in fast food called 'Fast Good'. The first outlets are located in the hotels NH and aims to prove that it is possible for a fast

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Cafe Deco group has opened in 2005 a unique restaurant, entertainment and bar facility at the top floor of Jumbo Floating restaurant in Aberdeen. This previously unused roof deck has been turned out on one of the most pleasant alfresco venue in HK. We like to take the small boat from the Marina Club to reach the Jumbo Kingdom, sofas are more than welcoming, menu includes comprehensive

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As reported in last week's issue of BusinessWeek, Illy is taking on Starbucks.A few years ago, Illy defined a handful of Illy Bar Concepts: the Core Bar is situated in historic centers, and functions as a meeting point that expresses the culture and the daily life of its location. Landscape Bars are set in busier areas, such as shopping malls or museums, and are meant to provide a restorative

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California has seen it for a long time. Then it spred thru east coast. Step by step it came in South Africa, Asia, Australia and... then to Europe. You name it as you want: Smoothie or juice bar, salad bar, fusion bar serving paninis and cappuccinos, organic minded, healthy food for fitness addict, etc. All these are booming and appears everywhere.They are sometime fair trade oriented, proposing

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Chocolate bars and lounges have mushroomed globally, and Meiji's 100% Chocolate Cafe in Tokyo's Kyobashi district is the freshest of the lot. Designed by Masamichi Katayam (of BAPE fame) to resemble a hip fusion bar with choco-block ceilings and see-through tubs of chocolates, 100% Chocolate Cafe offers 56 varieties of chocolates organised as a chocolate library. The café serves a selection of

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After the amazing success of Wagamama in the UK, continental Europe starts up spice up its meals with the Asian Nooldes & its inseparable tool that is the Wok.Rouge Tendance in France (Lyon) attracted a great deal of attention in 2001 when marketed the Wok cuisine as a base of its concept. Now Tiger Wok seemed to take some inspiration from its british older brother and is ready to spread liters

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Indian fast food Fast food saves time, and gives consumers a break from cooking and cleaning up. But there’s no natural law that dictates pizzas and burgers must dominate this USD 300+ billion market. With healthy fast food chains already on the rise (it’s that health trend again!), here’s the other opportunity to watch. With the average consumer being more adventurous, more travelled and more

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Hong KONG - Andy Tsang is one of these passionate guys who has this special ligth in his eyes when he is talking about his babies: his chocolates. Andy Tsang is a chocolatier (chocolate-maker) and has learned his art in France. His boutique, Monde Chocolatier, proposes great tailor-made chocolates with imported beans from many places. This is the kind of place where at the same time you buy a

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A great evening in Hong Kong, has to start by a drink at Aqua Spirit. This is a perfect chill-out place, overlooking an italian & japanese restaurant. By the panoramic mezzanine level bar, you have the best view of Hong Kong harbour. Aqua Spirit is located at the last floor of the 1 Pekin Road building. So, after you spent a couple of dollars (minimum charge of 100 something HK$ by person) for a

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Source is this kind of place you don't want to leave. Located in the middle of a Hutong (traditional Beijing habitation) the atmosphere is fantastic. The unique menu changes regularly and displays a reasonable choice of Chinese/Sichuanese cuisine for 100 to 200 Rmb by person. Caring service adds a great touch to this superb venue. I recommend to book one of the private room, especially the one

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