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CHINA BY SEA

From the Manly Wharf to the world: hip Chinese food and a year’s

worth of travels were top of the agenda at this special dinner.

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The splash and chug of ferries pulling

in and out of Manly Wharf as the sun

dropped over the water provided a fitting

backdrop for our latest reader dinner

with APT. Sydney’s cruising aficionados

converged on the new north-shore

outpost of smash-hit contemporary

Chinese restaurant Queen Chow for a

night of great food, fine wine and great

conversation - plus a preview of APT’s

hottest destinations for the year to come.

On the menu were exquisite dumplings,

steamed scallops with XO vermicelli,

succulent roast duck with plum sauce and

snapping-fresh coral trout with ginger

and spring onion, while on the agenda

for 2019 are, said APT, exciting emerging

destinations for the company such as

Croatia and Cambodia, not to mention

the much talked-about Papua New Guinea

by small ship offer. Speaking before the

assembled revelers, APT’s Lisa Gair

spoke of the pleasures of working with a

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Above, chef Patrick Friesen (left); below, GT

managing editor Pat Nourse and editor Sarah

Oakes; steamed scallops with XO vermicelli.

family-owned Australian travel company,

and of the highlights of the cruising year

to come, while GT managing editor Pat

Nourse shared stories from the trip down the

Yangzi he joined earlier in the year as part

of APT’s Best of China package. Grand

plans were hatched over great wine and

salted caramel brûlée tarts. A big thanks to

all who joined us. See you on deck soon.

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Kicking o with cocktails,

above; APT’s Lisa Gair and

GT’s Pat Nourse talking travel

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