Thai Restaurant Specialises In Shell Food   A luxurious taste of the Orient will arrive in Manchester later this year - complete with giant `seating shells' where diners will be able to eat. When the Vermilion restaurant and Cinnabar bar complex opens in Lord North Street, in Miles Platting, on November 1 it will also become the first venue in Manchester to offer full valet parking service. Building work is expected to end later this month and this week the massive seating shells were craned into position. The finished venue will comprise three bars and two private rooms as well as dining for 200 in the main restaurant. Owner Manzur Iqbal has recruited the head chef from the famous Blue Elephant restaurant, in Bangkok, to produce a wide variety of Thai cuisine including a selection of Thai fusion tapas. A spokesman said: "Many people who live or work in Miles Platting have been taken aback to see these giant seating shells being lifted by crane into the building - but it was the only way to get them in. "They are going to be located on the upper floor which will be where drinks and tapas are served and the shells themselves contain massive beds which will allow up to 20 people to recline at any one time. "The menu in Vermilion and selection of bar bites in Cinnabar will encompass classic Thai cuisine as well as some luxurious reworked dishes which utilise the finest seafood and an enviable imported spice list." Dishes will include salads such as the Yam Ta-Lay, a spicy mixed seafood salad with fresh lime and kaffir lime leaves or soups like Tom Kha Kai, a chicken soup with galangal and lime.