When we made our bookings for stay at the Royal Orchid Central recently, I did ensure to look up the restaurants they had and came across some interesting information and good words about the Chinese restaurant - Ginseng. We made sure to dine there once and here is a run-down of the experience.
Sunday night dinner 8 pm, no reservations, we walked in, to discover an empty room, save one table. Not a very motivational sight when you enter a restaurant on a sunday night! However, I was to be proved wrong as the place was 100% full within the next 30 minutes. The ambience is appealing, wood work, a large Buddha greeting you at the entrance, low lighting and pleasant crockery.
We ordered a Hot & Sour soup to share, some crackling spinach as starters. For mains, we ordered in a spicy Singaporean rice noodles and a Coriander based sauce.
The soup arrived first, spinach following suit. They seemed to however delay the Hot garlic sauce I requested for, for about 10 minutes! Yes, a sauce. During these 10-15 minutes, other tables too seemed to be having trouble getting some service. Someone's menu wasn't handed out, someone else hadn't received chilled beer as he had asked for, someone else's order was not being taken. Sudden lull in the service led to some commotion and screaming by the guests, which was evidently audible to the entire room. However, things picked up and settled down soon after.
The soup and the sauce came in. Another strange bit about service, they place things on the table, but do not serve. I don't know why this is the norm here, but it is just more useful and less clumsy for us to serve ourselves in a place like this. Portions just about sufficient for two. If we were very hungry though, I doubt it would have sufficed. The food I must grant the place, tastes excellent. Very authentic tasting spices, vegetables cooked just perfectly as you expect in Chinese cuisine, nothing overdone. The food genuinely makes up for all other glitches at the place. They also have some chopsticks at the table, which are a little more friendly to use than the normal disjointed ones, do experiment and have some fun if you're not used to Chopsticks normally.
The meal cost us Rs.1,000 for two inclusive of all charges and taxes. Not extremely heavy on the wallet and excellent food, I'd definitely recommend!
http://www.zomato.com/review/RLXoY
Sunday night dinner 8 pm, no reservations, we walked in, to discover an empty room, save one table. Not a very motivational sight when you enter a restaurant on a sunday night! However, I was to be proved wrong as the place was 100% full within the next 30 minutes. The ambience is appealing, wood work, a large Buddha greeting you at the entrance, low lighting and pleasant crockery.
We ordered a Hot & Sour soup to share, some crackling spinach as starters. For mains, we ordered in a spicy Singaporean rice noodles and a Coriander based sauce.
The soup arrived first, spinach following suit. They seemed to however delay the Hot garlic sauce I requested for, for about 10 minutes! Yes, a sauce. During these 10-15 minutes, other tables too seemed to be having trouble getting some service. Someone's menu wasn't handed out, someone else hadn't received chilled beer as he had asked for, someone else's order was not being taken. Sudden lull in the service led to some commotion and screaming by the guests, which was evidently audible to the entire room. However, things picked up and settled down soon after.
The soup and the sauce came in. Another strange bit about service, they place things on the table, but do not serve. I don't know why this is the norm here, but it is just more useful and less clumsy for us to serve ourselves in a place like this. Portions just about sufficient for two. If we were very hungry though, I doubt it would have sufficed. The food I must grant the place, tastes excellent. Very authentic tasting spices, vegetables cooked just perfectly as you expect in Chinese cuisine, nothing overdone. The food genuinely makes up for all other glitches at the place. They also have some chopsticks at the table, which are a little more friendly to use than the normal disjointed ones, do experiment and have some fun if you're not used to Chopsticks normally.
The meal cost us Rs.1,000 for two inclusive of all charges and taxes. Not extremely heavy on the wallet and excellent food, I'd definitely recommend!
http://www.zomato.com/review/RLXoY
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