The platter here comes with a generous dose of red wine and white wine vinegar, soy sauce, chilli sauce, oyster sauce, mustard and ginger celery sauce.
What makes the dishes stand out is how these sauces are being tossed to suit the local palate.
The August Moon Festival, which began at The Gateway Hotel on Friday, has an exclusive menu whipped up by chef Sarat Chandra Banerji along with his team for Chinese food lovers.
Keeping in tune with the August Moon Festival or Mid-Autumn Festival celebrated by the Chinese on the 15{+t}{+h}day of the eighth lunar month, the Ming Garden restaurant offers a new a la carte menu for diners.
Influenced by traditional Chinese and Vietnamese cuisines, the preparations are toned down to a fine blend of both overpowering and bland flavours. There are these crispy okra and bamboo shoot seasoned in salt and pepper, chilly basil potatoes, netted fish and sesame shredded chicken for starters.
However, tofu and sweet potato chilly dry is worth a try as the silken tofu just melts into the mouth along with the slices of sweet potato baked to perfection.
The soups come with assorted meat shreds or slivers of vegetables or a combination of both along with glossy noodles. Soup vegetable thukpa soup, wood ear and crispy glass noodle soup, and braised chicken and raisin soup are some among the list.
For the main course, the menu consists of five fortune (assorted vegetables) dipped in mustard sauce, wok fried lobster in Cantonese style, tiger prawn tossed in black bean and egg white sauce, and fish lum dong. These can be savoured with pan fried noodles, translucent Shanghai rice noodles and butter pepper noodles along with other varieties.
The dessert section too lends an innovative touch as it includes dates and fig roll, litchi and water chestnut mousse and sangkaya prepared with pumpkin and coconut custard. The fest is on for dinner at the restaurant from 7:30 p.m. till October 4.
August Moon Festival at The Gateway Hotel has a wide spread for the foodie
