A dining area at the Yu Palace restaurant. [Photo/WeChat ID: sheshanlvyou]
Yu Palace, a Chinese restaurant in the Yuluxe Sheshan hotel in Shanghai, was recently honored as a Gold Medal Restaurant in the 2022 Ctrip Gourmet List released by Ctrip, China's leading travel service platform.
The title was given to Yu Palace due to its authentic Huaiyang delicacies, professional and thoughtful services, and excellent dining environment where guests can appreciate the beautiful scenery of lakes and mountains.
The Chinese restaurant is best known for its Shanghai cuisine and Huaiyang cuisine, which originated from Yangzhou city in East China's Jiangsu province. It was named Restaurant of the Year at the 2021 Golden Spoon Award Ceremony and received the Must-eat Restaurant of the Year at the China Feast Restaurant Award Ceremony.
As the Spring Festival approaches, Yu Palace has prepared a holiday dinner menu in advance, with various set meals and different kinds of private rooms and comfortable seats in the dining hall available for guests.
The set meals for the dinner will be prepared by chef Qi Weijiu's team. Qi Weijiu is the executive chef at the restaurant, and was honored as the Chef of the Year at the 2021 Golden Spoon Award Ceremony. Under his leadership, the Chinese culinary team is expected to prepare auspicious and delicious Spring Festival eve dinner sets.
Qi is a Yangzhou native and specializes in Huaiyang cuisine, which is a famous Chinese cuisine. Huaiyang cuisine utilizes fine knife work and features exquisitely designed dishes that have a mellow taste.
Qi also likes traditional Chinese culture and calligraphy, which help stimulate his body and mind. His cooking abilities, which include the selection of fine ingredients, the balance of collocation, the thorough consideration of dietary nutrition, the transmission of taste, and the presentation of dishes with good color and fragrance, which are all comprehensive and innovative, as opposed to unchanged, can be seen as evidence of his commitment to presenting food with style.
Various set meals at different prices for the Spring Festival eve dinner are on sale at the Yu Palace until Jan 21, 2023. Guests can call 57799999-7766 to make reservations.
Yu Palace is located on the fifth floor of Yuluxe Sheshan, a hotel nestled within the Sheshan National Tourist Resort in Shanghai's Songjiang district.
Yu Palace's Chinese culinary team cooks with blazing flames. [Photo/WeChat ID: sheshanlvyou]
