Showing posts with label shanghai. Show all posts
Showing posts with label shanghai. Show all posts

Thursday, September 19, 2013

Great views are best experienced with Italian food at Isola

Food tastes better in beautiful surroundings. That’s just one of the reasons why the Italian cuisine at Isola Italian restaurants tastes so exquisite. Isola restaurants are internationally renowned for their chic interiors and spectacular locations. Isola Hong Kong’s open concept restaurant is well known for its stylish interior and has a large outdoor terrace overlooking Hong Kong’s harbour. Its sister restaurant Isola Shanghai has a reminiscent style and also has a sweeping outdoor terrace with views of bustling Lujiazui and the Huangpu River.



Against these stunning backdrops, Isola restaurants offer customers a daily antipasti lunch buffet, and an a la carte menu of fresh Italian food made from the finest ingredients. Get your meal off to a great start by treating yourself to a delicious light starter like Vitello tonnato con capperi ed acciughe (Roasted Dutch organic veal loin with tuna sauce, capers, anchovies and salad leaves) or Zuppa di aragosta all’ Aragonese con cozze e pomodorini (Lobster bisque style soup with mussels and San Marzano baby tomatoes). You can watch your food being prepared by our experienced chefs in the open copper kitchens.

Main courses include authentic Italian pasta dishes and a wide range of seafood and meat dishes cooked in the restaurant’s open ovens and grill. But the piece de resistance is Isola’s famed stone baked pizza. Try the ‘Trifola’ with black truffle and crescenza cheese.
 
These ultra crispy pizzas are also available in Isobar, a funky lounge bar and outdoor terrace directly connected to Isola Hong Kong. Isobar shares the same sensational views of the Kowloon skyline and is a great location in which to enjoy a casual lunch or pre-dinner cocktails from the exceptional drinks list.
Come and be seen at this happening scene with stunning scenery - at Isola and Isobar.

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Sunday, July 24, 2011

The imbalance between Hong Kong the shopping hub and Hong Kong the e-commerce snob



Don’t look now but it seems like Hong Kong, the supposedly recognized hub of tourism and shopping in this part of Asia, continues to downplay the power of e-commerce. According to EcommercePlus data, the top three Chinese provinces that have fully embraced e-commerce based on total online purchase orders are Guangdong, Zhejiang and Jiangsu. Meanwhile, the top three cities that are fond of online shopping are Guangzhou, Beijing and Shanghai. What’s wrong with this picture? No Hong Kong in sight, that’s what!


Guangzhou and Guangdong may be close neighbors of Hong Kong but the latter, the widely recognized mecca of retail and wholesale trade and shopping, is apparently an e-commerce snob. In fact, based on the data gathered by EcommercePlus, Hong Kong is nowhere even in the top 10!

Now the questions are: why do Hong Kong people resist e-commerce? What is it about e-commerce exactly that they frown upon?

And for the businesses (both online and offline) that want to garner more Hong Kong online orders, the challenge now is: what should you as a business entity do, acquire and implement in order to attract the attention of the Hong Kong customers?

The most possible steps to take would be to have cleaner, more transparent and more efficient portals where orders and customer relations can be established, developed and maintained. These portals must not only be pleasing to the eye and must not only offer good products or services…these must also know how to address customer concerns in the most effective manner. By the way, these portals need not be websites. They can be Facebook pages, Twitter pages, Sina Weibo profiles and the like. Of course, the employees who will process the orders must have topnotch customer service skills. And it will help a lot if a digital agency is on hand to assist. Perhaps only then can Hong Kong finally see a rise in the level of interest for online shopping.

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