The main ones move between Chinese and Southeast Asian cuisine
The journey between the bustling medina of Marrakech and the peaceful Route du Golf Royal, past El Jbilate and the Oued Issil river, takes barely a quarter of an hour but takes you to another world.
A few kilometers outside the city the desert knocks at the door, the houses disappear and the horizon becomes infinite, barely dotted with small villages and some groups of palm trees, always with the snow-capped mountains of the Atlas in the background. Right there is the impressive Mandarin Oriental Marrakech.
It has not been possible to choose a better location for the restaurant Ling Ling , the most exotic version of the Hakkasan group, that this spectacular resort. A quiet and discreet luxury oasis away from the city and between palm trees, fountains and sandbanks. Once we cross the hall, Marrakech stays at the door and inside we will find ourselves in London, New York or Dubai.
It has not been possible to choose a better location for this restaurant
Crossing this spectacular portal and the illuminated pond that occupies the entrance, we come across a modern space with simple lines and soft lighting, animated music by DJs and a cosmopolitan atmosphere.
A long bar presides over the restaurant and is not exactly for decoration. At Ling Ling they brag about their cocktails and for good reason. Exotic and precise, ideal to start or to accompany the whole dinner.
With a cocktail in hand it's time to choose dinner and the menu shows some of the classics that have made the group a global success and other dishes sifted to suit the local culture.
In this way, very well resolved dishes come out of the kitchen, such as the delicious lamb jiaozis and those bamboo dim sum baskets which are perfectly on par with those of their London 'cousins'.
They can boast of cocktails
The main ones move between Chinese and Southeast Asian cuisine, although they are presented somewhat more decaffeinated: good roast duck, coarse fried rice and a correct green papaya salad with prawns. For dessert, chocolate dim sum and the best espresso martini in town and part of the hemisphere.
Let's add to all this excellent service, such a cheerful atmosphere that invites you to enjoy and abandon the rigidity of a great restaurant, an interesting wine list, although the prices are scary, and the framework of one of the great hotels in Africa and we will have the complete equation for one – onerous – magical night.
A menu straddling the classics and dishes filtered to adapt to the local culture