Feel like having an awesome chinese lunch/dinner in south delhi ?
Royal China is the place to go. It's located in Eros Corporate tower (Top floor) in Nehru Place. It's a little steep but totally worth it. This review is about my first lunch there. Just my brother and I went.
We first ordered the prawn-chicken siu mai dim sums. They were out of this world. The best Dim sums i've ever had in my life are at the Ritz Carlton Hotel in Singapore and these dim sums are Royal China come VERY close to those. The best part about them is that it's got prawn right in the core of it, then it's surrounded by a layer of chicken with a sausage like texture and then the flour skin of the dim sums. But they are not complete without my special sauce.
You must have noticed that they give you a variety of sauces to choose from at a chinese restaurant and most people only try one or two and stick with them. The trick, I say is to make your own sauce. First order ask the waiter to get you a bowl of fresh "Hot Garlic Sauce" (Whenever you can include garlic in your meal, please do. It make the food taste better, brings out the flavour. Plus it's healthy. It helps in digestion and also cuts cholesterol). Once you've got the Hot Garlic Sauce, you take (2 big spoons or 5 tiny spoons) of the hot chilly paste, then add the vinegar with chopped green chillies about (1 big spoon or 3 tiny spoons). Make sure you get a decent amount of green chillies in there, too many will ruin in and too less will not add enough flavour. Of course you can set according to your own taste buds. the last piece of the puzzle is the Soya Sauce. According to me, if you pour soya sauce directly on it, it over shadows the flavour of the dish. The idea is to spice it up and ENHANCE the flavour of the dish you ordered NOT to over shadow it. Pour the soya Sauce till you get a dark red/light brown colour (if you pour too much, it'll turn dark and ruin it). Always try to pour a little and then mix and stir to let it set in and let the colour change. If it's still too red, pout a little more and than stir again. The right amount of soya sauce is what adds texture to your food. The vinegar and soya sauce will balance each other out so as to diminish the strong taste of each other and it will get it to the level which you want.
Then come the beef and asparagus rolls. Honestly they are very good, but they just didn't taste oriental to me. It tastes like BBQ sauce which is good at a picnic or a BBQ but not at a chinese restaurant. My advice would be, to go there and order these along with beer and just keep repeating your order and beer. They will go very well with drinks as long as you are not having any chinese food along with it.
For the main course we ordered, chicken fried rice and chicken in hot chilly oil. This chicken dish was amazing and went very well with the rice. They had put a little corn in the rice as well. I don't know if you guys like that, but I did. In case you don't like corn just ask them not to add it. But I would certainly advise you to try it once. If you don't like it, just ask them to remove the corn next time. But if you do like then you have me to thank and can take me out to lunch/dinner to this restaurant.
Among other things, i love the decor, the seats (minus the weird fluffy cushions) and the BEST part is the view. Sit next to a window and look down upon the city. We might not have sky scrapers but we do have a lot of greenery to enjoy.
Cheers
Food-Blogger Rohan
