Modern Imperial Treasures

Wynn Macau’s Golden Flower restaurant boasts an impressive portfolio of the world’s best awards. These include maintaining two Michelin stars from 2013 to 2021; the title of Forbes Five Star Restaurant by the Forbes Travel Guide for nine years running; and ranking in the 51 – 100 list by Asia’s 50 Best Restaurants. The restaurant’s interiors are all about ornate floral-motif chairs, hexagonal floor designs, and lanternshaped lighting. It takes inspiration from an Asian dining room in the home of a British shipping tycoon with its Orient-meets-Venice visual tropes – a setting that grandly reflects China’s aesthetic influence on the world.

Golden Flower’s menu is also an exploration of both old and new. Executive chef Henry Zhang has matched imperialera dishes with his own ‘degustation’ creations, taking dinners on a past-to-present journey comprising the Prelude to the Welcome Tea, Caviar, Beginning, Heritage, Abundance, Soup, Umami, Seasonal Vegetables, Bloom, and the Finale. Diners are presented with rare opportunities to taste Chef Zhang’s iterations of classic dishes such as braised fish maw with superior chicken broth, as well as crisp codfish with balsamic vinegar.

Each dining experience at Golden Flower will not be complete without its personalised tea pairing experience, featuring 50 varieties of tea from across China. These varietals include the famed Sichuan tea leaves that are specially paired with Sichuanese dishes. The area is considered the birthplace of the tea tree, and the location from which the world’s teadrinking cultures had its beginnings. Sichuan’s Mengding Mountain is where the earliest records in written form on tea tree planting was found.

At Golden Flower, tea artisans have created their own tea blends to match the restaurant’s ambience and the changing of the seasons. With its flower garden inspirations, the restaurant and its team of tea artisans have conceived the ‘Golden Flower Signature Tea’ blend with fresh floral notes as well as other unique blends, which have health benefits that harmonise with the seasons.