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Mainland China has done up a special menu to pamper your children during summer holidays
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PARTY TIME Everything is designed for kids at Mainland China PHOTO: K. BHAGYA PRAKASH
Customer is King and if he's a kid, you'd better pamper him thoroughly. Mainland China seems to have figured it out perfectly, for, they are out to woo the little ones in style. With a children's good festival, aptly titled Young-fu between May 16 and 30, Mainland China has invented a number of delicacies targeted at children.
A big signboard greets you as you enter the restaurant. It says: "Parents not allowed unless accompanied by children." Balloons, chocolates, masks and goodies only add to that feeling, even as children are presented special menus designed for them by Chef Dubey. Almost everything on the menu is laced with a "sweet and sour" flavour, and chillies are almost absent or kept to the bare minimum. Soft food that's easily chewable by children such as parboiled water chestnuts, crab meat and fried food, which have always been a hit with children, are aplenty.
The menu-card playfully boasts of teaching children Chinese in five minutes (for example, to ask the waiter to "come here now", say "Kum Hia Nao!"), is filled with soups, starters (mostly finger-foods) and desserts, skipping the main course as the little ones go mainly for these. Sweet tomato and almond soup, crisp and crunchy pepper onion rings, roasted peanut and corn moneybags (wontons with a different stuffing of peanuts and golden corn), chicken and scallion wontons, East and West chips (French fries laced with a delicious sweet and spicy flavour), sesame fish fingers (crisp fish fingers coated with sesame) and other such snacks ensure that it's party-time for children, who otherwise have to make do with food ordered by parents. Most dishes are sans gravies and are quite filling in themselves, such as chicken with lemon sauce drizzled with fried cashewnuts or caramelised shrimps with plum sauce.
Sipping delicious strawberry mocktail, don't be surprised if you hear kids reciting "Yum Na Na, Co Co Kim Yum", so on. They're simply practicing the Chinese that the menu asks them to, or ordering melt-in-the-mouth caramelised bananas (laced with sesame seeds) or impeccable caramel custard made with coconut crθme, respectively.
And as if that's not enough for desserts, Mainland China has decided to pamper the little devils with chocolate wontons too.
A must visit for children before they get back to the grind of school. For reservations call 25597722.
TINA GARG
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