Discover The Chairman in Hong Kong, one of Asia’s most acclaimed Cantonese restaurants. From its famous steamed flower crab with Huadiao wine and silky rice noodles to its seasonal local ingredients, this one-Michelin-starred restaurant delivers refined Cantonese cooking without the theatrics.

The China House, in its two-storey colonial house beside the Mandarin Oriental’s Charoenkrung entrance, was a stylish version of that idea, first in high-contrast red and black, later in moody 1930s Shanghai Art Deco, with Chef Andy Leong’s modern Cantonese kitchen. It was good. It was not yet itself.

The Handlebar Bar and Grill is one of those Makati spots that has been doing the same thing for more than two decades and still feels like itself.