Dinner at Amy Poon’s

Posted: December 2nd, 2025 | No Comments »

Londoners by now hopefully know that Amy Poon, on the legendary Poon’s family of Chinatown restaurateurs has opened a sumptuous new restaurant at London’s Somerset House – if in town do check it out. She also very kindly invited me and some writerly types to dinner at her home and for the Financial Times’ How To Spend It magazine on how to host a dinner party –

“Amy Poon hosts a steamy hotpot party. Immense fun to be fed by the legendary Amy Poon, watered by her sommelier smart husband Michael Mackenzie and be photographed by the FT. All in the company of eminent travel writer Colin Thubron and his wife the Shakespeare scholar Margreta de Grazia, Booker Prize-longlisted novelist Tash Aw, food writer Fuchsia Dunlop, author Paul French and SOAS student Alegra Giercke, whose family runs the Genghis Khan Retreat in Mongolia. Their conversation ranges from the intellectual to the naughty, taking in Wham!’s tour to China in the 1980s and how to cook a Mongolian camel’s pizzle along the way.”

And what a lovely night it was – more here…

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