Aside from a self-service bar and a “food hall” serving up an international buffet, patrons should make a beeline for the signature open-kitchen Noodle Bar.

Designer furniture, cherry wood, and limestone set the tone at the recently revamped Cathay Pacific lounge in Terminal 2 at Shanghai Pudong International Airport.

Aside from a self-service bar and a “food hall” serving up an international buffet, patrons should make a beeline for the signature open-kitchen Noodle Bar, where communal long tables and private booths make for the ideal place to tuck into preflight dan dan noodles and wonton egg noodles in soup, as well as a dim sum selection that features Shanghainese dumplings.

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This article originally appeared in the October/November 2019 print issue of DestinAsian magazine (“Shanghai Chic”).