Lost Heaven Yunnan Folk Cuisine

Lost Heaven is part of the old US-Embassy complex and situated close to Tianamen. The Yunnan food is excellent, the atmosphere very pleasing, a melange of old traditional Chinese with modern architecture, accomplished with lots of flowers.

Although Lost Heaven is billed as a Yunnanese restaurant, the food is modern-creative, inspired by the legendary Ancient Tea Horse Trail that winds throughout Yunnan, Burma (also known as Myanmar) and Tibet. The journey reveals the treasured flavours of the numerous minority groups in the region, such as the Dai, Bai, Yi, Miao and Naxi. Young chef Li Zhire, from a city near Kunming, leads the kitchen, forging an abundance of provincial ingredients into new combinations that will make you swoon.