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March 8, 2012

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What does it take to win the Oriental Restaurant of the Year prize at the Scottish Restaurant Awards? We asked the team from Glasgow’s Opium after they took the top spot last week.

Their head chef Kwan Yu Lee spent years training in Hong Kong and if there is anything that he doesn’t know about dim sum then it probably ain’t worth knowing.

This is a man who will check the atmospheric humidity outside the restaurant before deciding on the best way to make his chive and crab dumplings that day.