The chef promises that all the seafood and ingredients are fresh and of top quality.

The menu includes snow fish with Chinese plums, seafood and sea bass cooked in soup.

Siang Ping Loh Chinese Restaurant is open daily from 11am to 2.30pm and 6 to 10pm.

Call (02) 224 9977, extension 338 or 303.

Steamy clay pot offers Pan Pacific Hotel's Hai Tien Lo Cantonese restaurant, led by chef Lam Kwok Weng, is offering a clay pot promotion all this month along with its well-known dim sum buffet.

The restaurant offers a delicious choice of four of the most popular clay pot dishes - deep-fried river prawns with spicy sauce, stewed cod with dried bean curd, braised scallops with XO chilli sauce and deep-fried eggplant stuffed with shrimp mousse.

The restaurant, on the 22nd floor of the Pan Pacific Hotel, is open daily for lunch and dinner.

Call (02) 632 9000, extension 4202.

Oodles of noodles Chef Chi Tak Lai and his team at the Peak, Dusit Resort Pattaya, invite aficionados of Chinese cuisine to indulge in fresh seafood cooked with Hong Kong noodles.

The menu includes prawns cooked in five spices and served with Hong Kong noodles and cold chilli sauce, steamed seabass with Hong Kong noodles in Cantonese sauce and stir-fried Phuket lobster with Hong Kong noodles to name a few. Also on offer is barbecued suckling pig.

You can wrap up your meal with the Peak's dessert of the month - sweet ginger pudding with fruit. The restaurant is open daily for lunch and dinner.

Call (038) 425 611-7, extension 2276.

Juthamas Cholthavornpong

The Nation

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