Ask for the moon

Feast on the fest of the autumn moon

September 14, 2014 08:13 pm | Updated September 30, 2014 03:51 pm IST - Hyderabad

HOT, SWEET AND CRUNCHY The fare at Golden Dragon will please you

HOT, SWEET AND CRUNCHY The fare at Golden Dragon will please you

If your have been postponing your Chinese lunch/dinner, then make the most of the ongoing Autumn Moon Festival at Golden Dragon. Master Chef Hung Fong Ng and his team are ready to present the traditional cuisine of the Zhou dynasty.

If you over stuffed yourself with non-veg, then the chef has vegetarian options as well. Beijing onion pancake, cheesy chausi celery gulin chilli sea salt, Crispy konjee shitake, pakchoy greens and silver sprout noodle soup, crunchy water chestnuts, mushrooms and winter melon in devil sauce, zucchini with Chinese greens in spicy sweet bean sauce and a variety of vegetarian stir fries.

Besides the vegetarian fare, the menu also offers an array of authentic Chinese delicacies like wok-fried rock lobster with sweet pickled ginger in hot bean sauce, crispy squids tossed with crushed pepper corns and rock salt, XO flavoured sea food broth, sauted sea squids with shitake and spicy yellow beans.

What makes the food different is the scanty use of corn flour or arrowroot powder to coat the meat and fish. The fresh dips at times make for a good lick by themselves and complement the flavours of soups and stir fries.

Each of the stir fries has a crunchy freshness; the hot and sour fish and the prawns are a must at Golden Dragon on any visit. So are there rice noodles with the veg and non-veg variation.

The highlight of the fest, however are the desserts, the mooncakes. They are a sweet, Chinese pastry made with a mildly sweet red bean paste with a crust usually made from egg yolks.

For the fest the chef is offering two varieties: the traditional baked mooncake and the iced mooncake. There is an assorted platter with more variety too. . The sweetness of the mooncake is solely from the bean used in the filling, the chef reveals. The chef throws in a final surprise in the form of a mandarin rind ice cream, served with fruits.

0 / 0
Sign in to unlock member-only benefits!
  • Access 10 free stories every month
  • Save stories to read later
  • Access to comment on every story
  • Sign-up/manage your newsletter subscriptions with a single click
  • Get notified by email for early access to discounts & offers on our products
Sign in

Comments

Comments have to be in English, and in full sentences. They cannot be abusive or personal. Please abide by our community guidelines for posting your comments.

We have migrated to a new commenting platform. If you are already a registered user of The Hindu and logged in, you may continue to engage with our articles. If you do not have an account please register and login to post comments. Users can access their older comments by logging into their accounts on Vuukle.