After graduation, Dipali Amin started testing recipes for the family and helped it expand into pan-Asian foods.

Food Opera, off the lobby, offers fabulous Italian food, sumptuous breakfasts and delightful service: food in Saigon is generally of a high standard, and the Park Hyatt has some of the best, especially in the mezzanine restaurant, a dark, romantic space with pan-Asian food.

This ornate restaurant offers interesting pan-Asian food and an atmosphere that appeals to families with children as well as singles on the prowl.

The pan-Asian food (Thai, Vietnamese and Chinese) includes red curry venison claypot with mushrooms and bamboo shoots ($14.98), and there are $8 mango martinis.

The Upper West Side's glitziest restaurant has fabulous décor, interesting pan-Asian food and an atmosphere that appeals to families as well as singles on the prowl.

East, serving dinner only, has inventive pan-Asian food.

He will serve pan-Asian food in a redecorated room.

Wagamama, a successful UK-based chain serving pan-Asian food mainly in Europe, is known for its noodle soups marketed as ramen (but which are quite different from ramen in Japan).

Lovely varied Burmese and pan-Asian food, served in the traditional lacquer dishes for which Bagan is renowned; good service and pretty garden (Wetkyi Inn Village, main road south of Nyaung U).

Mu Du Noodles (1494 Cerrillos Road; 505-983-1411; www.mudunoodles.com), for example, serves top-notch pan-Asian food out of a small, storefront space.