The thousand-year-old temple Lingyin Temple is a beautiful place for Hangzhou's feng shui, and Jiuli Yunsong Resort Hotel is located near the temple, surrounded by mountains and rivers, natural and fresh. Tianxiang is the hotel's own restaurant, which is hidden in the bamboo forest of the tea plantation, with excellent privacy, and a pair of Japanese-style courtyard-like wooden gates are the entrance to the restaurant. The interior design of the restaurant is modern and simple, and it combines Chinese classical elegance and Western classic temperament, low-key and calm, slightly dim, more emotional, the hall is very spacious, and the booths are quiet and tidy, so that diners feel more comfortable.
The dishes of Tianxiang Restaurant are mainly fresh and elegant Hangzhou flavors, but they are no longer limited by the framework of Hangzhou cuisine, but integrate Chinese and Western cuisines, and learn from others. The chefs, who are well-versed in Cantonese and fine Chinese cuisine, have redesigned the dishes based on their understanding of Hangzhou's food culture, and have created creative Hangzhou cuisine and vegetarian dishes, as well as a small number of Western dishes such as foie gras with red wine and baked prawns with sea urchin. There is no fixed menu for vegetarian meals, and the chef will customize the menu according to the seasonal ingredients and customer requirements. Fresh ingredients are also a major advantage of Tianxiang Restaurant, vegetables, fruits, livestock and poultry are delivered directly from the hotel's own farm in Jiande, and the seafood as Tianxiang's high-end dishes mainly come from Zhoushan Fishery, which is more distinctive, including wild pomfret from the East China Sea, fresh seed fish, large and small yellow croaker, green and white paste crabs, etc., the soup base is prepared by the chef himself, and special fish gelatin and other ingredients are added, which is delicious and unique.
Squirrel osmanthus fish is almost a must-order dish for customers to the store, crispy on the outside and tender on the inside, sweet and sour and delicious, the seasoning of the sauce is better, because it is not heavily fried, the taste of the fish lacks some crispy, but it does not appear greasy, in general, the taste is good but not amazing, if you like sweet and sour taste, you can try it. Southeast Asian-style curry stewed seafood is very popular in Tianxiang, unlike many Hangzhou restaurants that control the curry flavor too lightly to adapt to domestic tastes, Tianxiang's curry stew has a certain curry spicy and spicy degree, moderate taste, and rich milky aroma; The vegetables are crispy and flavorful, with garlic bread, the curry sauce is crispy and fragrant, the stewed seafood is optional, the crab and the shrimp are good, among which the shrimp skin of the shrimp is crispy, sweet and delicious, and it is very pleasing.
Because the hotel's restaurant is close to the Lingyin Temple temple complex, there is an endless stream of customers who come to try vegetarian food. The restaurant's most famous vegetarian dish is Lingyin Suzhai, a platter composed of shiitake mushrooms and tofu rolls, in which the tofu skin is rolled with finely cut carrots, dried beans and shredded vegetarian ham, refreshing and light but with a fragrant aftertaste, delicate and layered, worth savoring slowly; The shiitake mushrooms are made in a fresh and sweet sauce, with a soft mushroom flavor and a slight roasted burnt aroma, light but full of aroma, the quality of the shiitake mushrooms is excellent, very fat and tough, and the chef carefully peels off the mushroom stems and edges to make the firm and fresh taste more prominent, giving people a deep impression.
Tianxiang also provides afternoon tea between 13:30 and 16:30, if you go to drink afternoon tea, you can order the afternoon tea set, the dessert variety of Western desserts three-story tower is richer, including Italian cream pudding, madeleine, English scones, red velvet cake and other more than a dozen traditional and modern desserts, unfortunately the taste of tea is more ordinary, but if you like desserts, you may wish to try.
Tianxiang's waiters are more polite, but after the beginning of the meal, the service is very quiet, and the meal will not be disturbed, but it is not worth the 15% service charge. The restaurant has 8 private rooms with different designs, and the chef will arrange the dishes according to the fresh ingredients available in the kitchen, and adjust the individual dishes according to the needs of guests. There is a minimum charge for the private room, such as a small box for 6-8 people The minimum cost is 2500, you can ask the staff before booking. The lobby does not accept reservations, but it is rare that you will need to wait for a long time. Tianxiang's production is not outstanding, but if you want to avoid the popular restaurants in line, you can consider dining at Tianxiang Restaurant.
