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Silver Pot, in Chengdu, China, serves a crab and caviar salad with snap peas added to give texture and color accents. (Photo by Zheng Chen)

SHUNSUKE TABETA, Nikkei staff writer

January 18, 2025 08:10 JST

BEIJING -- Huang Linya, an employee at a local company in Chengdu, Sichuan, sat down to eat an original dish at Silver Pot -- a Michelin-starred restaurant in the capital city of the inland Chinese province. She ordered julienned cantaloupes wrapped in wheat dough, with broiled pork slices placed on top of the dough and caviar and Chinese mahogany leaf buds decoratively added.