Man Wah at the Mandarin Oriental is featuring the cuisine of Shandong in its promotion which starts today. Chef Li Jianguo and his team of three will be cooking until July 7. Guests can taste the chef's special dishes, which include oil-blanched bean sprouts with rare spices and vinegar, and poached silver gingko nuts in honey Kuei-hua sugar. For information call 2522 0111.

If you love Greek food, head to the Metropole Hotel. Manolis Kiriakidis, executive chef of the Electra Palace Hotel in Athens, is visiting the hotel to cook for the Greek Experience festival, which runs until July 16. His dishes are on the a la carte menu in Porto, where guests can taste chickpea soup with pomegranate, sauteed shrimps with ouzo and tomato sauce with feta cheese, stuffed lamb with feta cheese and pistachio nuts, and traditional walnut pie with ice-cream. Special Greek dishes are also available on the dinner buffet in Palm Court; it's $188 plus 10 per cent for adults ($118 for children) Monday-Friday, and $208 ($128 for children) Saturday and Sunday. Phone 2761 1711 for reservations.

Panorama and Dynasty Chinese restaurants at the New World Renaissance Hotel have introduced cooling summer dishes to their menus. The a la carte menu at Panorama now includes dishes such as Alaskan king crab salad with mango, capsicums and coconut crisp on ginger lime dressing, roasted monkfish with smoked salmon, sage and Mediterranean couscous, and Acacia honey and piripiri chilli-glazed duck breast with orange-lemongrass sauce and spaghetti squash. At Dynasty, guests can taste fried crab in preserved bean curd sauce, braised abalone with eggplant, and deep-fried fish in Thai spicy soup. Call Panorama on 2734 6660, Dynasty on 2734 6600.