The Tale of Two Restaurants...

The weekend was eventful with two movies and two new restaurant visits and a very satisfying experience at both the places. Slumdog Millionaire and Raaz 2 were good, infact Slumdog makes one sit and think and carry home the memories of a brilliantly made movie.
The first restaurant was Mandarin Trail in The Great India Place, Noida. A good restaurant doubled with equally good ambience. As the name suggests it’s a Chinese restaurant, with good Chinese food, with variety of seafood. Rajesh and me, thought to try the place out. Both being very fond of Chinese food headed right into the restaurant on Saturday to have our lunch. The food was good, especially the soup that we ordered, Chicken Wanton and Lemon Coriander Soups. Next we ordered for a rice bowl, which is a combination of rice and dish, we ordered for chicken. We also ordered prawn and it turned out to be good too. One special mention for the seafood lovers, the food is really good. Those who are going to check the food out, do check out the prawn dish. The pomfret was also delicious, we had ordered for a braised pomfret in black pepper sauce. Probably the dessert menu was not competent enough with few choices. There’s no bar for those who love hold their drinks alongwith the food. However the non-alcoholic drink menu is decent enough. All in all its a good place to have food, after loads of shopping, if you are a Chinese foodie. Lunch for two – Rs. 1100/-.
The second visit was Bonsai Restaurant, Connaught Place. It’s in the inner circle. We (me and Mia) were thinking to visit a new restaurant in CP. So after moving round and round we found that there is this place called Bonsai, which both have never been to and that’s when we decided that we need to visit the place. The very first thing that you notice when you enter the restaurant is the romantic ambience, candle-lit tables and white interiors. It’s a place where you would take your girlfriend to propose her and be sure that she would not say no. I mean candle-lit dinner right next to a water fountain, light music in the background, what else you need. The menu has a great ensemble of Chinese and Japanese food with Indian grilled items. It has a lot of prawn, chicken and pork items. For the veggies also the menu seems to be quite tempting, with all those stir fried veg delights and also Cantonese food which seems to be prepared very well, though I haven’t tried it myself. The food was good. Do try the special soup, Bonsai Laksa Soup (Veg/Non Veg) it’s simply awesome. We had noodles, chicken and prawn. I loved the food and the ambience. The weather was good and it allowed to sit in the open. It also has a indoor sitting facility for those who like to have their food under a roof. Food for two would cost around Rs. 1500/-. Want to try out something; do visit this place.