Dragon Well Manor

It feels like it belongs to this genre of going back to the land and finding our roots, but actually inventing something new entirely.

Well, The Dragon Well Manor, so that is a place.

The owner, Dai Jianjun, Dai is his nickname, has been a huge influence on me because he actually started a restaurant in a beautiful garden, some land that he leased on the outskirts of Hangzhou.

And he started sort of getting ingredients directly from farmers and artisans and insisting that they use traditional methods, no chemicals.