Saturday, May 30, 2015

Pinner restaurant L'Orient changing to Shang Chuan Chinese restaurant and bar

Photo courtesy of Trevor Sharot.

The sign says:
Shang Chuan
Chinese fine dining experience
Chinese Restaurant and Bar
Coming soon in June
Previous executive head chef of Hu Tong in the Shard.

What does Shang Chuan mean? According to Wikipedia, Shang Chuan island is a Chinese name derived from the Portuguese for St John.
What does Hu Tong mean? Wikipedia and the Hutong restaurant website agree Hutongs are historic alleys or narrow lanes between grand old houses in Beijing.

Angela Lansbury, travel writer, photographer, author, speaker.
L'Orient/Shang Chuan
58 High Street
Pinner
Middlesex
HA5 5PZ
UK
The Orient phone number is listed as 0208 429 8488.
That number has several 'lucky' eights, lucky in Chinese, so I wonder whether they will keep the phone number.

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