The Prosperity Abalone Yu Sheng
In celebration of Chinese New Year, auspicious offerings await diners at City of Dreams Manila’s award-winning restaurants Crystal Dragon and Nobu Manila.
To augur the Year of the Water Tiger, the two premium restaurants highlight bountiful feasts of fine Cantonese cuisine and regional Chinese specialties, and new-style Japanese cuisine, respectively, for fully vaccinated diners.
Crystal
Dragon
Diners
can look forward to Crystal Dragon’s Lunar New Year ala carte menu that is
currently offered until February 6. The menu consists of culinary delights that
symbolize good fortune, abundance, and happiness highlighting Crystal Dragon’s luxurious
and enhanced rendition of the Yu Sheng, a popular Chinese New Year fare.
The restaurant’s Prosperity Abalone salad consists of sliced abalone, colorful
julienned papaya, pomelo, carrots, radish, onion leeks, chopped peanuts and
deep-fried flour crisps drizzled with oil and sweet plum sauce. Customarily tossed
by diners with shouts of well-wishes to invoke a prosperous year ahead, the
belief is that the higher one tosses the salad, the greater one’s fortune will
be.
The Prosperity
Abalone Yu Sheng’s ingredients are thoughtfully put together to
symbolize abundance of wealth and long life, with the abalone signifying
abundance; the oil representing wishes for a smooth sailing year; the chopped
peanuts and deep-fried flour crisps symbolizing prosperity, and the sweet plum
sauce denoting a sweet and harmonious family relationship.
Slow-braised spicy pork trotter
Crispy roasted duck marinated in truffle sauce
Also
offered in Crystal Dragon’s special Lunar New Year menu are dishes to augur
good fortune: braised dried oysters, sea cucumber, duo mushrooms in supreme soy
sauce with broccoli; steamed live grouper fish in sour broth with white shimeji
mushrooms; crispy roasted duck marinated in truffle sauce; slowly braised spicy
pork trotter; steamed taro rice with Chinese liver sausage, lap cheong
(Chinese sausage), mushroom and diced chicken; and pan-fried fragrant taro nian
gao (tikoy or sticky rice cake) with pandan coconut compote.
Located
on the upper ground of Nüwa
Manila, Crystal Dragon is open from 12 noon to 11 pm.
Nobu Manila
Guests can ring in the Year of the Tiger with a roaring fare influenced with the new-style Japanese cuisine globally popularized by the legendary Chef Nobu Matsuhisa. Nobu Manila’s Chinese New Year ala carte menu, which is offered for the whole month of February, features: an indulgent array of Nobu-style assorted sushi cups and maki platter of ama ebi (sweet shrimp), uni (sea urchin), yellowtail, tuna, hokkigai (surf clam), white fish, unagi (freshwater eel), scallop, and salmon.
Nobu-style assorted sushi cups and maki platter
The menu also offers whole crispy lapu-lapu
(grouper) with sweet chili cilantro sauce and assorted vegetables; and Iberico
pork yaki udon, a noodle dish with Iberico pork jowl, tofu, shitake
mushrooms, bok choy and baby corn.
Iberico pork yaki udon
Located
at Level 1, Nobu Hotel, Nobu Manila restaurant also provides leisurely al fresco dining experience at
the open-air floating cabanas. The restaurant is open Sunday
to Thursday from 5 pm to 10 pm, and until 11 pm on Friday and Saturday.
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About City of Dreams Manila
The luxury
integrated casino resort City of Dreams Manila marks the formal entry of Melco
Resorts & Entertainment Limited (Melco) into the fast-growing and dynamic
tourism industry in the Philippines. Officially opened in February 2015, City
of Dreams Manila is operated by Melco Resorts Leisure (PHP) Corporation, a
subsidiary of Melco Resorts and Entertainment (Philippines) Corporation.
The dynamic and
innovative resort complex, located on an approximately 6.2-hectare site at the
gateway to Entertainment City in Parañaque and part of the Aseana City township
development, includes the ultimate in entertainment, hotel, retail, dining, and
lifestyle experiences with aggregated gaming space, including VIP and
mass-market gaming facilities.
Melco is the
first integrated resort operator in Macau and the Philippines to achieve the
esteemed international third-party responsible gaming accreditation RG Check
for its Macau properties, and City of Dreams Manila. Developed by the
Responsible Gambling Council, RG Check is the world’s most comprehensive
responsible gaming accreditation program established and implemented by an
independent panel of respected gaming specialists.
Each
of the luxury integrated resort’s luxury hotels is awarded with an accolade by
Forbes Travel Guide (FTG): Nüwa Manila (Five-Star), also named by FTG in its
First Verified List of the World’s Most Luxurious Hotels in 2018, and Nobu
Hotel (Four Star) for four consecutive years since 2018, and Hyatt Regency
Manila, City of Dreams (Four-Star), for five years in a row. FTG also awarded
Nuwa Spa with Five-Star rating for two years running since 2020, the first spa
in the country to be awarded with this top rating.
Nuwa
Manila is likewise recognized in 2020 with Sharecare Health Security VERIFIED®
with Forbes Travel Guide, in compliance with expert-validated best practices
that minimize the risk and impact of COVID-19 and potential future public
health risks. The three hotels are all Safety Seal-certified and bears the Safe
Travels stamp by the World Travel and Tourism Council (WTTC) by the
Philippines’ Department of Tourism (DOT). The Safe Travels Stamp is the world’s
first safety and hygiene stamp for travelers to recognize businesses that have
adopted global health and hygiene standardized protocols.
On
property are impressive restaurants and bars, a retail boulevard, health and
wellness centers, and distinctive entertainment venues: DreamPlay, the world’s
first DreamWorks-themed education-based family entertainment center; and
CenterPlay. a contemporary entertainment bar at the focal point of
the main gaming floor, with live performances from top local artists.
City of Dreams
Manila delivers an unparalleled entertainment and hospitality experience to the
Philippines and is playing a key role in strengthening the depth and diversity
of Manila’s leisure, business and tourism offering, enhancing its growing
position as one of Asia’s premier leisure destinations.
For more
information, please visit www.cityofdreamsmanila.com.
About Melco
Resorts and Entertainment (Philippines) Corporation
Integrated casino developer Melco Resorts and Entertainment (Philippines) Corporation (“MRP”) is a subsidiary of Melco Resorts & Entertainment Limited (NASDAQ:“MLCO”), the developer, owner and operator of casino gaming and entertainment casino resort facilities in Asia and Europe. MRP’s subsidiary, Melco Resorts Leisure (PHP) Corporation (“Melco Leisure”), which developed City of Dreams Manila together with SM Investments Corporation, Belle Corporation and Premium Leisure Amusement, Inc., operates and manages the luxury integrated resort.
For more information about Melco Resorts
and Entertainment Philippines please visit: melco-resorts-philippines.com.
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