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...Mercedes-Benz for all guests, in-room check-in and checkout, breakfast with a free flow of champagne (even if it isn't a Sunday) and a gratis minibar. A fully equipped kitchenette is found in all 34 suites - of which 10 also boast an in-room wine chiller - and the five rooms on the Ladies Floor have dedicated amenities for women (like more hangers, for example). Owner Surya Jhunjhnuwala, the brains behind the groovy Vansh Indian restaurants in Singapore and Kuala Lumpur, is a marathon runner and sets a health-conscious tone. You are treated to organic dried corn...
...passage through the crowd. He made a dignified concession speech punctuated by cries of love from the drunks, his wife Janette serene beside him, looking as though she wouldn't miss the political circus for a second. Then he was into the crowd with a glass of white wine, hugging the friends and colleagues of a lifetime. There was the best man from his wedding 36 years ago; there his best mate from high school; over there his closest confidants since he entered Parliament...
...after midnight in Jakarta and, below a highway overpass, a party is just getting started. Students and the unemployed are listening to well-worn cassette tapes, swigging from bottles filled with a cocktail of beer and local wine and loitering in front of Movement Records - a punk-music shop that has become a nexus for local youths. It is also home to Onie, one of Jakarta's self-proclaimed original street punks, who both works and sleeps on the premises. "It is very quiet at night," Onie says. "The shops are closed, so society is O.K. with us being here...
...restaurants revamp their sake lists for increasingly refined palates, it is clear that demand for premium sake goes well beyond Asian food. "Sake has the ability to be molded to what you want--to adapt to the flavor of the dish," says Tanguay. "You can't do that with wine." Haute-cuisine restaurants--from New York's Per Se to Chicago's Charlie Trotter's to Rubicon in San Francisco--are increasingly looking to sake pairings to satiate--and educate--diners. This fall, in the custard-colored dining room of Chanterelle, an icon of French cuisine in Manhattan, the restaurant...
...much work," he says. "My basic rule with anything that has to do with sake is that it takes 2 1?2 times as much effort because the educational element is unknown." Pearce is very much a purist: "You can't go into sake with a wine background and understand it. You have to understand it on its own." But, he adds, "it's exactly like wine, in that people will turn on to better ones." That should keep importers--and the Shinto gods--happy for years to come...