Forget the slurpy oyster, let go of the delectable and smouldering hot Pasta or Ravioli and ignore the natural penchant for Thai or Lebanese fancies. Let’s resort to a cuisine of novelty that’s always been there when most other cuisines hadn’t even entered the scenario in India.
Let’s return to the Oriental roots and tame our taste buds again. Let’s try to partake in food that really livens up the senses in the craving for something refreshing and ever-enjoyable. How about rediscovering our love for the authentic taste of Chinese food?
For a city that has a flair to embrace new eateries and dining places at the blink of an eye, there is little surprise to note that New Delhi hasn’t parted with its pure love for Chinese cuisine. Doesn’t matter what month we are on. Doesn’t matter where we eat. There’s an unbridled joy to partake in the pure goodness that stems from Chinese food. And there are tons of places in the flourishing capital, ever vibrant in its offering of nice Chinese food that can truly make one’s day.
So if you love dumplings, oyster chillies, haka noodles and are smitten by Singaporean noodles and other delicacies, Delhi will offer you a blend of places that are hard to ignore. They are serenaded by a delightful cosiness and, a romanticism with modern upbeat settings that shall entrap you in a world where taste rules over senses and where experience rules over time.
Presenting the 5 best Chinese restaurants in New Delhi:
Nanking
A Pan-Asian restaurant revered for decades together with eaters from all walks of life and all parts of the city, Nanking is, for the lack of a better expression- a tiny China in India’s capital.
For its incredible offering of authentic Chinese dishes, Nanking serves delightful main courses that are mixed well with a serving of appetizers and starters, that are very Chinese in every sense of the word.
The dumplings, rice patties and haka noodles are unmistakably brilliant. And above all- a cosy and warm interior that doesn’t seem to side with loud, boisterous music makes for a truly enjoyable meal. Once here, try to make time for Kuang Pao Chicken, that’s even more juicy, spicy and “chicken-ish” than what you may have at other places.
Berco’s
A leader in Chinese and Thai food, Berco’s been serving loving connoisseur’s of Chinese food since 1982 and is still going strong. How’s that for some credentials?
A truly simple and peepy eatery in the heart of the city, Berco’s beautifully blends a western vibe and feeler to a cuisine as vastly different as Chinese. For starters, the place is hardly show-offy which makes the ambience inside as to be suggesting, “we welcome all”, and the food is a mishmash of exciting, tangy starters and appetizers along with authentic mainstream Chinese offerings.
Offering the cuisine from two outstanding pillars of China, in Hunan and Shanghai, Berco’s also represents the best from spicier regions such as Schezwan, where noodles and rice play their own enticing part to sway you toward a mouthwatering appetite.
Truth be told, to make the most of Berco’s’ Chicken drumsticks or Singaporean noodles, you’ve to liven up your appetite by digging on some unavoidably good honey chilly potatoes. It’s like a firestarter of sorts.
If you are there during intensely hot summers, then savour the delicacies through Iced tea’s.
Woks
In the heart of The Lalit, right into the pocket-sleeve of New Delhi, up in the centermost location, is a real bonanza for Chinese food-lovers. A place that for its cosy, comfy and very loungy interiors seems to be kickstarting a tradition of adoring Chinese food, Woks might sea-dive into your pocket but shall serve you a brilliant food hunt into the realm where lamb dumplings, tofu with black choy, Singaporean noodles, glass noodles are artsy realities that blend a sense of style with food. Are you prepared to dive into this amorous interaction with food?
Chao Bella
Let’s consider a simple math. If Chinese food is in your mind, then biting into some really appetizing, delightful food at Chao Bella is the buzzword. Consider all digits on the phone to be the keys that lead to this mouthwatering residence of some authentic Chinese cuisine. An elegant fine dining experience where warm, friendly settings compliment the taste of everything- starting from the starters to main-courses- Chao Bella is a perfect spot to surprise a loved one over a course of a wholesome meal and a jolly good arbiter to ring in good times with friends and family.
Some truly unavoidable items on the menu are- Chengdu Chicken, Chilean sea-bass, jasmine rice having a splendour of an aroma that’s unmistakably beautiful.
House of Ming
Like the most dependable athlete of an order that steps in when the rest have done their part, House of Ming is quite simply, the best residence for Chinese cuisine in the entirety of New Delhi.
Few places serve as much variety as the novelty of a truly fantastic experience as House of Ming, nestled in one of the more opulent addresses in the city- The Taj Mahal Hotel, on Man Singh Road.
Striking a near-perfect balance between ambience and food, House of Ming is a great idea to savour a nearly flawless meal, presenting versatile offerings from Cantonze and Schezwan regions of China, two unmissable traditions of one of the world’s favourite cuisines.
While you can relish the vast offerings such as Sichuan rice pepper noodles, wok-fried rice with shredded chicken, Chinse gluttonous rice or the steamed diced chicken with black bean, House of Ming will spoil you for choices given the wide array of slurpy soups and wide varieties of dumplings on offer.
No experience in New Delhi regarding the Chinese food can ever be rendered complete minus the savouring of taste buds at the House of Ming.