The FINANCIAL — Chinese culture has been conquering the world over the past decade and this global heat from the East has started to affect Georgia as well. More and more Chinese people are seen walking down Tbilisi streets. Interest in Chinese culture is also increasing.
In Georgia, a country which is well-known for its own national cuisine, Chinese dishes are turning from the exotic to everyday food. The popularity of these two Chinese restaurants: Picasso and Siangann, could serve as an obvious example of the growing demand on Chinese cuisine in Georgia.
Picasso – Best Offer of Chinese Cuisine
Picasso is a Chinese restaurant at the centre of the city (5 Vashlovani St), the original name coming from the gallery that existed there before.
What the restaurant prides itself on most is the high quality of the products used in their cuisine.
Chinese chefs are in charge of the national eastern cuisine. The menu includes but is not limited to favourite Chinese dishes: the Meadias “Teiban”, “Shanghai chicken”, chicken wraps in lettuce leafs, sweet and sour soup, seafood soup, chicken soup with bamboo, yellow salad, “glass noodles” with vegetables, fried corn with vegetables, Chinese cabbage with mushrooms, Chinese mushrooms with bamboo in soy sauce.
The Georgian ingredients used in the Chinese dishes are mainly vegetables and meat, as for the spices, they’re purely Chinese.
The prices are quite acceptable and affordable, with the highest – GEL 38 for “Teriyke” squid with piquant spices or fried squid with piquant spices.
Sea products, though they’re a bit more expensive, are becoming more and more demanded at the restaurant.
As for alcoholic drinks the restaurant serves the best quality Georgian wines as well as various famous international brand spirits.
In terms of non-alcoholic drinks, special Chinese tea varieties are on offer to clients.
From September 2008 Picasso will present a renewed menu and offer lots of welcome surprises to its clients.
Due to its location in the centre of the city where the major financial centre is situated, the restaurant is crowded during lunch time.
Picasso offers event services to companies who’re willing to make their presentation in a tastily arranged modern way.
Siangann – Hong-Kong Cuisine Focus on Sea Products
The Chinese restaurant Siangann, located in one of the most prestigious parts of Tbilisi – Gagarini square, offers the best Hong-Kong cuisine with a focus on sea products. This is a central place in Tbilisi where you can find Hong-Kong delicacies.
Most people know that the benefits of eating seafood are numerous – not only is it a delicious source of protein to incorporate into your diet, it has been proven to offer many health benefits as well.
Various studies and researches have proved that the best sources of good fats, vitamins, and minerals to promote good health are found in different seafood.
Siangann menu offers such delicious dishes as: duck soup with mushroom chashugy, shark back gristle soup, “uydan” sweet and sour soup with squid eggs, beef soup with squid, miandze salad with Chinese tree mushrooms and peanuts, Hong-Kong salmon, hijei salad with jellyfish, dzao Chinese date with grain lattes, bean curd with prawn spices, pumpkin with fish and tochi in earthenware pottery, fried beef in a bird’s nest.
Beijing duck, which costs GEL 70, is the most expensive dish at the restaurant.
Siangann has a cosy and a pleasant surrounding. Everything that you see around enables the guests to share the richness of Chinese culture.
Our restaurant’s cooks, originally from Hong-Kong, constantly surprise our clients with their professionalism and variety of dishes.
As a complete novelty to Georgia, the Chinese restaurant Siangann offers the world-known dish Beijing Smoked Duck, cooked in the same way as in Beijing. The dish is really very special as it is cooked and served in a very specific way and has a particularly piquant aroma and taste.
Siangann is frequently preferred by businessmen for arranging business meetings, also birthday parties and even exotic weddings.
During the upcoming Olympic Games period, which is being held in Beijing, Siangann has a number of surprises planned for its clients.
The restaurant has ambitious plans for the Chinese New Year as well; Siangann intends to invite an event specialist in order to celebrate the event at its best.
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