July 4, 2008 2:15

Maison Boulud Beijing: The Movie

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As I mentioned earlier, I ate at the new Beijing outpost in the growing empire of New York-based super chef Daniel Boulud. The food actually exceeded my expectations, which were pretty high, classic, unfussy dishes highlighting the ingredients. Not an atomiser in sight (or molecularizer or whatever it is they use at Bulli, the much-caressed experimental restaurant in Spain). Anyway, I shot some footage of the action in the kitchen. You'll see they are by no means understaffed with around 14 cooks and bottle washers. I guess that's what it takes to achieve that level of cooking on that scale. The two dishes you see being prepared are pork belly, which Boulud himself describes in the clip, and a starter you can see him assembling of scallop and fried zucchini flower with roast tomatoes and, I think, a salsa verde. I had it. It was great.

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Reader Comments (5)

Orsino:

it's disgusting. They should wear gloves. They can not touch already cooked food with their bare hands. I'll never go to this restaurant.

Posted by Orsino | July 4, 2008 6:40 PM

Chinaren:

This food is delicious.

Posted by Chinaren | July 5, 2008 9:44 AM

Francesco Sinibaldi:

I call you, my dear....

Like a magical
fear, in my heart,
there's always
a footprint that
now disappears in
the light of a pathway,
and there my
desire gives an
attention to some
beautiful birds.

Francesco Sinibaldi

Posted by Francesco Sinibaldi | July 5, 2008 3:42 PM

fan_chor-cheung:

No matter how good the Boulud Restaurants will only rank among the lower 100s among restaurants in Beijing. No cuisine is better than the Chinese cuisine in Beijing. Why don't you report on that?

Posted by fan_chor-cheung | July 6, 2008 7:07 PM

jong:

To everyone:

The media in the west has lost its credibility recently through biased reporting and even worse through doctoring and faking everything they reported. Mr. Simon Elegant is no exception. In his report “A Tibetan Intifadeh Against China” (Mar. 14, 2008, http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1722509,00.html?iid=sphere-inline-bottom), a beautifully doctored picture was inserted to highlight his biased points. Shame on you, Mr. Elegant

Posted by jong | July 6, 2008 9:07 PM