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HCMC online at: www.asialifehcmc.com SIEM REAP NEWS
La Residence Grows says La Residence has plans to Summer Ball for a Cause Press Club Celebrates 15
Menu with On-site Garden host a cooking class and chef’s The Saigon Children’s Charity Years
Business is blooming at La table amid the greenery once Summer Ball continues to be Perhaps no city has seen the
Residence Hotel and Spa in Hue. the garden and orchard are fully one of the highlights of the city’s advances Hanoi has over the
Chefs at fine-dining restaurant Le set up. social calendar and is an oppor- past 15 years, and the Press
Parfum are picking the first batch tunity for city residents to show Club has helped to drive that
of produce from a new garden Nha Trang Sailing their commitment to a brighter change. Designed by French
and orchard on the resort’s Regatta future for disadvantaged chil- architect Brigette Dumont de
riverside grounds. Set in a 1930s Evason Ana Mandara Nha Trang dren. The event is a great night Chassart to mirror the elegant
art-deco mansion in Vietnam’s is set to host the first official to relax with friends, but also journalist haunts of old Vietnam,
former Imperial City, La Residence event of the 2012 to 2013 Re- a unique opportunity to enable the 86-seat Press Club Restau-
is cutting its carbon footprint gatta Series. The opening event hundreds of children to get an rant quickly established itself as
by using fresh herbs, fruits, and will be held on Jun. 2 and 3 near education. Guests will be treated the address for fine-dining and
vegetables. Planted by the resort the resort’s beach. The sailing to a romantic and classical ball, business get-togethers in Hanoi.
in January, ten vegetable species championship consists of four with an elegant champagne re- Showcasing the club’s signature
and 18 herbs and roots, including events held over the year that ception followed by an exquisite Australian and American steaks,
galangal, pandan and sweet support the growth of sailing in five-course dinner prepared by a refined selection of continental
potato, are tended by a local Vietnam. Each event caters to top chefs at the Sheraton Hotel. cuisine and the occasional Asian
gardener and protected under both experienced sailors and During the night, there will be delicacy, the debut of its refreshed Skin Care Café der the wing of Srey Bandol and
sunshade netting and a built-in beginners. Participants score enticing auction items, exclusive à la carte menu is only one of a Jenny Jung, who has been at- Tor Vutha (whose enormously
sprinkler system. La Residence’s points based on their ranking. raffle prizes and a lively selec- line-up of gastronomic highlights tending to local beauty needs successful exhibition has just
orchard is planted with eight Those points accumulate to form tion of music for you to dance the Press Club has cooked up for for six years, has set up a café closed at the Friends Centre).
types of tropical fruit-bearing a grand total, which determines the night away — all for a good its 15th anniversary. Until June, within Jenny Skin Care salon, His creative expression bloomed
trees that are expected to yield the grand champions. New cause. Tickets are 2.7 million the Press Club is spotlighting an opposite the Ivy 2 guesthouse. and his work is a stunning com-
their first harvest in 18 months. classes of sailboats including the VND and a table of 10 is 27 mil- innovative Ciroc Vodka Menu — The new café opened just after bination of strong, vibrant co-
Meanwhile, a new orchid garden HTR460, 4.4m long with hiking lion VND. More information is featuring entrées such as orange Khmer New Year and serves a lours and powerful shapes. This
is currently providing flowers for ladders and double trapeze, and available at saigonchildren.com/ duckling breast with Ciroc mush- range of health foods and drinks is Veasna’s first solo exhibition
room turndowns and decorations. RS Q’Bas, 3.5m long, will be events.aspx or contact freddi@ room tartlet and citrus sauce — to complement the aims of the and we get the feeling that he is
General Manager Anthony Gill launched this time around. saigonchildren.com. for adventurous diners. salon. “It was not my idea really, an artist to keep an eye on. Life
but my customers',” says Jung. runs until Aug. 20.
“Often they would ask me after
a treatment for something nice Tuscan Degustation
and healthy to eat and drink, so On May 17, Italian eatery Il
they can be clean on the inside Forno will host a special Tuscan
as well as the outside too, so I fi- Degustation evening, starting
nally decided to do it.” Kitted out from 7pm. The menu offers four
with an open kitchen and bar, courses, accompanied by three
large tables and comfortable rat- glasses of wine specially se-
tan sofas, the set-up looks per- lected to complement the food.
fect for a get together with a few Credited with introducing much
friends for a pedicure ($3) and of the finesse into French cook-
a gossip. The café is air-condi- ing, Tuscan food has a rich and
tioned and also has Wi-Fi. noble tradition. At its heart, there
is bread and an obsession with
Hospital Show the freshest ingredients. These
A new exhibition of work by Ot traditions are amply reflected in
Veasna opened at the Friends the menu selected by Il Forno.
Centre at the Angkor Hospital for The starter of pappa al pomo-
Children on Apr. 20. Curated by doro is a hearty tomato and
Bina Hanley from the McDermott basil soup enriched with chunks
Gallery, 'Life' tackles the diffi- of bread, followed by a second
cult subject of love in Cambodia course of home-made pappare-
and also looks at the relation- delle with veal ragù and por-
ship between humans and ani- cini mushrooms. For the main
mals. Born in Kandal province course, Il Forno offers braised
in 1980, Veasna has been deaf beef with beans all'uccellina,
since birth and was only able to which is sure to stir recumbent
communicate with his mother souls, accompanied by a glass
and cousin. Veasna did not at- of Chianti from the Villa Antinori
tend school due to his hearing Peppoli Estate. The evening will
impediment, and as a result is be rounded off with a traditional
unable to speak, read or write. rice cake with vanilla ice-cream.
Painting is his only way of com- Il Forno hopes to follow up with
municating with others. Veasna more degustations in the future,
joined the Phare Ponleu Selpak which is something else to look
in 2008 where he was taken un- forward to.
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