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1755 Renmin Road, Gusu District, Suzhou

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In Pictures

Gallery

The room, the feast, the caves and the performance — an evening here, as it actually looks.

The Dining Show

Eight courses served inside the performance.

Dancers circling the round stage with silk ribbons
A ceremonial procession beneath red dragon banners
Performers in Silk Road costume mid-scene
Dancers in amber robes, arms raised
A Silk Road caravan crossing the stage
Performers in motion under the projection band
The company mid-performance
A ring of dancers, sleeves thrown outward
Dancers in amber robes, sleeves fanned wide
A merchant caravan crossing the stage
Parasols and pale hanfu beneath a painted sky
Dancers close, sleeves and gold headdresses

The Room

A 360 degrees theatre.

The round theatre, laid for service before the doors open
A full house, servers moving through the rings
The stage set with two chairs behind hanging gauze
The company across the stage beneath the panoramic screen
Servers kneeling at the tables between courses
The ring under coloured light, dancers at its edge
The round stage seen from above, tables all around
Dancers on the ring with the seating tiers behind

The Feast

Northwestern China by way of Jiangnan technique.

Fish maw with black garlic chicken broth
A plated course from the eight-course menu
Taihu river shrimp with balsamic pearls
A course served in ceramic
Braised abalone
Creamy yoghurt and ice cream
A course from the tasting menu
Jiangnan fresh noodles

The Building

Painted caves and grottoes, rebuilt indoors.

The Dunhuang cave galleries
Hand-painted grotto walls
Painted caves lit like dusk
Stone Buddhas along the gallery corridor
Sculpture against the sandstone wall
The heritage gallery
An interior room in warm clay
The bohemian lounge with rugs and arches
Earthen room with pots and arched windows
A corridor of hand-painted flying apsaras
A grotto chamber painted floor to ceiling
Stone heads on plinths beside a sandstone wall
A private dining room beneath a gilded chandelier
The long gallery corridor in rammed earth
Arched windows, a stone Buddha and Silk Road pottery
A group walking the heritage gallery

The Experiences

Dining, culture, and entertainment.

A sound healing circle around singing bowls
Guests at the long workshop table with a master
Rooftop yoga at dusk above the Suzhou skyline
An artist painting a Dunhuang mural
A calligrapher at work
Films under the sky on the roof terrace
Guests in traditional Hanfu before the mural wall
Performers photographed in the sandstone canyon
The rooftop terrace with live music
A celebration in the sandstone cave room
Guests dressed in hanfu with full headdresses
The rooftop terrace, set out with loungers
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