London's hot food trend: Refined Chinese

Chefs introduce the cuisine's unfamiliar flavors and its 'QQ' textures

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Chef Andrew Wong's restaurant Kym's in London focuses on the "art and technique" of Chinese roasting. (Courtesy of Kym's)

MELINDA JOE, Contributing writer

LONDON -- Eight years ago, Andrew Wong was having lunch at a restaurant in Sichuan Province when he noticed something unusual.

"A dish went past that looked like nothing I'd grown up with. It had courgette flowers and tomatoes -- ingredients I'd never seen in the Chinese kitchen -- but it smelled amazing and the locals were loving it," he recalled.

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