Dynasty - Yes, This Is A Restaurant
written by John Chow
A few people have asked what restaurant served that live lobster. The restaurant is Dynasty and it’s unlike any restaurant you’ve ever seen - at least on this side of the world. Dynasty is a restaurant in Shanghai (the city has three of them). Created because Deng Xiaoping said, “To get rich is glorious!” Dynasty is a perfect example of conspicuous consumption ran amok. Today’s China is getting very rich. The country has over 300,000 citizens with net worth of over $1 million US, excluding property. Nowhere is this more evident than in Shanghai, China’s biggest and richest city.
Dynasty caters to Shanghai’s high society class, government officials with expense accounts, and foreigners wishing to experience a restaurant that is beyond anything they can get back home. Dynasty is five stories tall and looks more like a grand hotel than a restaurant. The floors are made from imported marble and there is gold everywhere. All the dinning rooms are private except the open dining area on the fifth floor.
The service at Dynasty is fit for royalty. No less than six female greeters welcome you when you enter the restaurant. One greeter will escort you to the elevator to take you to your floor. A greeter inside the elevator pushes the floor button so you don’t have to. When the elevator door opens, two more greeters will be waiting to take you to your table or private dining room. If you decide to take a walk through the restaurant, on coming waiters and hosts will stand aside and bow their heads as you walk by. It’s really quite overwhelming.
How much does a Dynasty experience cost? My dinner bill came to 1000RMB, which works out to $125US. You have to love that US exchange rate! 
Keep in mind that the average factory worker in China makes $100US a month. Here are some more photos.
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Sweet goodness. That’s ridiculous. Though, the price for all of that actually seems comparatively low. But that all of that interior decoration really is just over the top.
Dynasty - It really does feel like immersing oneself to an age back then, and living like a king for a meal. What say you?
The price is low if you can bring North American dollars. As John said, the average Chinese worker earns that much in a month.
I saw one of the worlds best footballer house.Seemed like it was a Five Start hotel.They spend money to beat the top star hotels
All addsd to the experience I supppose, would certainly impress….
Dugg!
http://digg.com/offbeat_news/Dynasty_One_of_Shanhai_s_fanciest_restaurants/
Yes, I realize I made a typo.
Wow that is one nice looking restaurant, and to think I thought you were in Vancouver
I did too, John didn’t tell us he wasn’t home - I guess the Root Of All Evil has to keep us out of the loop.
Guess he likes to give surprises.Thats what readers too like.Out of nowhere and it rocks
Same here…well, actually I thought it was Vegas personally.
It could pass for a restaurant at the Venetian or the Bellagio!
perhaps this is why kwan has been posting so much… johns away so the kwan will play.
* Grins, that is how one describes a person who is lending a helping hand? Being away does not warrant the blog to remain ’static’ I guess, in John’s opinion.
WordPress has a great feature that lets you publish posts in the future, so your site doesn’t have to be “static”!
Thats what is Web2.0. Read and Write and Web 3.o Will be read write execute.It will rock
I should use this, to be honest I ignore all the good advice about posting frequency and just let them go, even if I know I wont post for a while. I just like to see them on my blog imediately
Lol so thats one more strategy i found.
That sounds a little funny, What’s Kwan playing with…
…is that some kind of tin take-out dish next to the lobster? What kind of high class restaurant serves food in those!?
LOL! $125 bucks for all that? Man, I’d be crazy rich in China.
Looks like aluminum foil
I think the chicken was cooked in that….
John?
That was stewed pork.
Sorry, it was hard to tell from the picture!
Saman = -1 Evil Point
Lol come down to india , with the money JC earns he will be king.LOL
Wouldn’t we all?
I kid, I kid…
May be not.It depends may be they made it like for looks or surving style but JC will be able to tell better.
Well, such places like this for reserved for the high-and-mighty. You know what they call this? ‘Fine dinning’.
Lol naw u just say spend some extra money.It depends on your taste.
With that kind of talk John could buy Dynasty no problem.
Look at that deadly pile of cooked spinach.
barf
Whoa!
Very Nice!
Wow that cost much less than I expected… but I have a question: what is an RMB?!
RMB = the currency of China. Ren Min Bi is more commonly known as RMB.
Ren Min Bi roughly translates to “The People’s Money”
John me too thaught you were in Vancouver
With regard t the Chinese alary , here in India also an average factory worker gets not more than USD 125 a month
Thats a new thing.Making it popularize as peoples money its a good strategy of government
What camera do you use? I have been dynasty before. It is beautiful, but not as stunning as it looks as in your photo!
Those photos were taken with a Canon SD300.
I have asked you this many a time before but you never replid,, any way please post some photos of the camera
You can read my review of the SD300 here: http://www.thetechzone.com/?m=show&id=328
I love the canon’s, I have an SD550 that I got about a 1.5 ago. I had a Rebel before that and I think I prefer my rebel. You can do soooooo much more with it.
It looks like a hotel in Vegas. Are you sure you didn’t take a quick trip out there??
Lol who knows JC’s Ideas had been rocking !!! I hope thats not vegas lol
So what you’re saying is I can take a year’s salary, go to China, and live in a house of gold? Nice.
You can. It depends on where you want to live. There’s a new saying in Shanghai, “No matter how rich you are, there are parts of Shanghai that can make you feel poor.”
A walk through the new financial district will do that.
They know how to spend some money… and there will always be someone richer than you.
Ah hem.. It looks, and feels really high class yea? At my age, I still can’t go around spending that much money on a meal, yet.
That looks totally ridiculous. The phony ‘high class’ of China is one of the funniest things about that country
Yeah, I mean when will they learn that the true symbol of wealth is 28″ rims, LCD screens in your headrests and fabulous clothes for your micro sized dog. They’re so tacky. Someday the rest of the world will stop being so silly and get with it
OHH! HAHAHAHA Now that is hilarious - but so true!
Well, not everywhere will be defined ‘high-class’. It is still in the process of development, even the developed countries do not portray high-class standards everywhere! Where it is needed, will it take place.
LOL you just blew china? What do you mean BTW
Not sure its phony, must have cost a fortune, not in the best taste perhaps, but impressive all the same
ABSOLUUUUUUTELY GORGEOUS!!!!!!!
But how was the quality of the food overall?
You can spend that kind of money at a good live seafood place in NYC of SF and eat really well.
(But not as luxuriously)