CRISTAL ROOM BY ANNE-SOPHIE PIC ANNOUNCES TWO-NIGHT COLLABORATION WITH BEIJING’S ACCLAIMED QU LANG YUAN THIS JANUARY IN HONG KONG

12-13 January 2026 | HK$2,280 + 10% per guest | Two dinners only

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<<Hong Kong, 19^th December, 2025>> One MICHELIN-starred Cristal Room by Anne-Sophie Pic is delighted to announce its next guest chef collaboration, welcoming Beijing’s celebrated Qu Lang Yuan for an exclusive two-night dining experience on 12 + 13 January 2026. Following the restaurant’s successful recent collaboration with Vivant by Johnny Pham from Shanghai, this marks Cristal Room by Anne-Sophie Pic’s second collaboration with a leading Mainland Chinese restaurant.

During these two evenings, Chef Li Zhanxu, recently named Tatler Asia’s Rising Star Chef 2025 and helming one of the Tatler Asia-Pacific Best 100 Restaurants 2025, will bring the refined, poetic Franco-Chinese sensibilities of Qu Lang Yuan to Hong Kong, joining Head Chef Marc Mantovani and the Cristal Room by Anne-Sophie Pic team to craft a menu that bridges French gastronomic precision with modern Chinese expression.

About Qu Lang Yuan & Chef Li Zhanxu

Located in the historic Hutong of Beijing’s Dongsi Shiyitiao, Qu Lang Yuan occupies a restored siheyuan courtyard that has earned multiple architectural accolades. Within this serene 450 sqm cultural enclave, the restaurant presents a cuisine rooted in seasonal Chinese sensibilities, interpreted through the lens of global culinary language. The team’s work often intersects with the arts, hosting exhibitions in ink painting, printmaking, photography, and artisanal craft, establishing Qu Lang Yuan as a contemporary cultural destination as much as a dining one.

Chef Li Zhanxu, a graduate of Institut Paul Bocuse, brings six years of professional experience from some of France’s most respected MICHELIN-starred restaurants, including Alain Ducasse au Plaza Athénée and OKA in Paris. After returning to China, she built a dynamic young kitchen team at Qu Lang Yuan, shaping a style that harmonizes French technique with Chinese emotional memory, terroir-driven ingredients, and the duality of the “familiar yet surprising.”

Her cuisine’s poetic Franco-Chinese dialogue has earned her recognition as MICHELIN Young Chef Award Beijing 2024, Forbes China 30 Under 30 (Chefs), and Tatler Asia’s Rising Star Chef 2025.

Cristal Room by Anne-Sophie Pic × Qu Lang Yuan Collaborative Menu

The experience begins with an elegant progression of delicately crafted snacks: Oyster with Charlotte Oil Cream, Ark Shell Flambé, and Smoked Tea Jelly, followed by Green Beans with Shrimp Farce and Lotus Root Chips; Wakame Tacos filled with smoked pike roe and chartreuse ASP, and a luxurious morsel of Oyster with Caviar Lardo.

The menu continues with a Tomato Tartelette gently perfumed with geranium and longjing tea, lifted by a beurre blanc and crowned with Kaviari Oscietra caviar, before moving into a delicate and comforting Crab Chawanmushi. Cristal Room’s signature Les Berlingots ASP©, filled with 24-month aged Comté fondue, follow as a highlight of the evening; the iconic pasta is presented in a champignons de Paris consommé infused with oolong tea and smoked vanilla, bringing together French technique and contemplative Asian aromatics.

The collaboration then progresses into a course of Abalone paired with a fragrant green pepper sauce, showcasing restrained power and balance, before culminating in a robust main of Venison Saddle from Alsace, marinated with black garlic and coffee. Served alongside translucent mushroom tonka-bean ravioli and fermented dark berries, the dish underscores the evening’s spirit of harmony between intensity and finesse.

To conclude, guests will enjoy a Passion Fruit Mousse accompanied by coconut cream and a refreshing water chestnut soup, followed by a final composition of Chocolate Truffle with kaki, paired with a Madeleine scented with Buddha’s hand and a gently spiced Hazelnut Curry.

Cristal Room by Anne Sophie Pic x Qu Lang Yuan Collaboration Menu 

Snacks:

Oyster Charlotte oil cream, Ark Shell Flambé, Smoked Tea Jelly

Green Beans, Shrimps Farce, Lotus Root Chips

Wakamé tacos, smoked pike roe, chartreuse ASP

Oyster caviar lardo

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Tomato tartelette, géranium and longjing, beurre blanc. Kaviari Oscietra caviar

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Crab Chawanmushi

Sweet corn on the bottom, egg yolk and cream made chawanmushi and crab soup on the top, crab meat and crab roe

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LES BERLINGOTS ASP ©️

pasta filled with 24 months aged Comté fondue, champignons de Paris consommé infused with Oolong tea and smoked vanilla

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Abalone

Tri-pepper Sauce (Sichuan pepper, green pepper and pickled pepper) with abalone confit, cauliflower mushroom and white asparagus.

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Venison saddle from Alsace

Marinated with black garlic and coffee, Translucent mushroom ravioli with tonka beans, Fermented dark berries.

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Coconut Bowl

Passion Fruit Mousse, Coconut Cream, Water Chestnut Sweet Soup

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Chocolate truffle with the kaki

Madeleine buddha hands

Hazelnut curry

Event Details

• Dates: Monday + Tuesday – 12 + 13 January, 2026
• Venue: Cristal Room by Anne-Sophie Pic, Hong Kong
• Menu Price: HK$2,280 + 10% per guest (food only)
• Seats: Limited; two nights only

Recently awarded “Best New Restaurant Opening” and named among the “Top 30 Restaurants of Hong Kong” by Harper’s Bazaar Hong Kong – Bazaar Elite Taste 2025, Cristal Room by Anne-Sophie Pic has quickly become one of the city’s most sought-after dining destinations. The restaurant presents elegant, poetic gastronomy curated by Anne-Sophie Pic, the world’s most decorated MICHELIN-starred female chef. In Hong Kong, Head Chef Marc Mantovani lead a talented culinary team committed to precision and creativity, while the sommelier team delivers a world-class beverage experience designed in collaboration with Paz Levinson, Executive Chef Sommelier of Maison Pic.

Cristal Room by Anne-Sophie Pic is open for lunch and dinner from Monday – Saturday. For reservations / bookings at Cristal Room by Anne-Sophie Pic, please visit the website at HERE.

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About Cristal Room by Anne-Sophie Pic

One MICHELIN-starred Cristal Room by Anne-Sophie Pic represents a groundbreaking collaboration between Baccarat, the iconic crystal manufacturer and creator of enchanting worlds, Anne-Sophie Pic, the world’s most Michelin starred female chef, and Leading Nation Hospitality in Hong Kong. This remarkable restaurant, opened in mid November 2023, seamlessly blends the realms of hospitality, design, and gastronomy. Conceived by Gilles et Boissier, the renowned Paris-based architecture and interior design studio behind Baccarat Hotel in New York, the 40-seat venue offers a breathtaking panoramic view of Hong Kong’s Victoria Harbour and showcase the culinary know-how with the open kitchen.

Anne-Sophie Pic, acclaimed for her culinary finesse and renowned for her concept and cuisine philosophy of “Suffusion”, brings her unmatched exquisite sensibilities, perfect balance, and striking flavour combinations to the Cristal Room. Throughout her unique creations, together with her head chef Marc Mantovani, she invites guests to savour dishes that reflect her French identity while showcasing Asia as a re-appropriation of her own traditions. Beverage creations, extension of Anne-Sophie Pic signature, are imagined with Paz Levinson to create a symbiosis between dishes and drinks. In the same pursuit of perfection, Anne-Sophie Pic and Eric Verbauwhede, created artful expressions of the chef’s culinary philosophy in the realm of pastry.

At the entrance, guests are greeted by a mesmerizing chandelier engulfed in flames. This stunning display symbolizes the harmonious fusion of the four elemental forces – fire, air, earth, and water – that serve as the foundation for all Baccarat creations.

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Forty-Five located in LANDMARK is the most exciting art, culinary and lifestyle destination in a generation. The sprawling space atop Gloucester Tower houses five new experiential concepts, including MICHELIN-recommended The Merchants, Kaen Teppanyaki, Cardinal Point, One MICHELIN-starred Cristal Room by Anne-Sophie Pic, and private members’ club, the Gloucester Arts Club.

Address: 43/F Gloucester Tower, LANDMARK, 15 Queen’s Road Central

About Leading Nation Hospitality

Leading Nation Hospitality, a Hong Kong–based group founded in 2016 by entrepreneurs Gerald Li and Kevin Poon, who brings creativity and strategic vision to the city’s culinary scene. Today, the group boasts a diverse portfolio of over 18 innovative restaurant and bar concepts across more than 30 locations in Hong Kong and other key Asian markets. Highlights include acclaimed destinations like The Diplomat (Top 50 Best Bars),

Cristal Room by Anne-Sophie Pic (One MICHELIN Star), The Merchants (MICHELIN-recommended), Cardinal Point (Cathay Pacific’s Member’s Choice for the Hippest New Nightlife Spot), La Rambla, Morty’s, Elephant Grounds, WAGYUMAFIA, Mashi No Mashi, Sushi Mamoru, and the newly opened Torikaze, each reflecting the team’s commitment to quality, design, and hospitality excellence.

About PIC and Chef Anne-Sophie Pic

Anne-Sophie Pic, the world’s most Michelin starred female chef, is known for her exquisite sensibilities, perfect balance, and striking flavour combinations, which achieve superlative equilibrium between powerful tastes and their delicate expressions. Her unique legacy is founded in grace and audacity – a bold openness to the world and a reverence for the earth and those who cultivate it.   At the heart of Anne-Sophie Pic’s creativity is her concept and cuisine philosophy called “Suffusion”.  Suffusion happens when aromas enter a new flow, expressing themselves at their very best, through astonishing new tastes and sensations, through the use of different techniques from the French culinary tradition such as marination, infusion, steeping, or smoking.

Anne-Sophie Pic holds 3 Michelin stars in her gastronomic Pic*** restaurant in Valence, France where the family house has been located for three generations. With Anne-Sophie Pic in charge of the creation and David Sinapian, her husband, at the head of the company, they turned Pic into a group dedicated to luxury restaurants and high-end F&B experiences.

Follow the Pic universe on social media @annesophiepic @pic-valence @ladamedepicparis

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