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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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