Cantonese Cuisine: At Home

I enjoy “Indian Chinese” food. I even enjoy “American Chinese” food. That said, I have often wondered what the good people of China think of perversions like “Gobi Manchurian” and “General Tso’s Chicken”. A random tweet, from Gautam John of Pratham Books, bemoaning the lack of authentic Chinese food in Bangalore, sparked an idea.
Gavin Mak, [...]

The Great Wall

As of end 2008, this restaurant is closed.
After years of making do with far-from-satisfactory Chinese cuisine in cramped, eat-and-go chain restaurants, Indiranagar finally has reason to rejoice. The Great Wall, located right at the base of the Indiranagar-Airport Road flyover, offers an upscale Oriental dining experience with enough variety to satisfy even the most jaded [...]

Dining on Dim Sum

Dim sum. Not my favorite kind of food, as I admitted to Chefs Huang Zhiwen and Suresh of Zen at the Leela. As usual, I was about to have my mind changed in the most spectacular way possible.
To me, dim sum has always conjured up images of teeny-tiny, bite-size morsels of food – hardly enough [...]