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Enter the dragon At Chin Chin, The Residency

In fact, a lot of the dishes in the main course have a wealthy sound to them. You have silky tofu; garlic pearls, ruby chilli, golden baby corn and a royal sauce. The liberal use of the traditional Saki (and gin in the Sakinaro lamb), add that extra something to the fare.

As it is only an a la carte, you should confer and choose wisely and the staff is more than willing to help you make the choice.

If you are not careful you could end up eating too much of the starters of which there is a huge variety, and will have to go back again to sample the rest. Since you are resigned to having food reviews by the all-vegetarian Metroplus writers, here is a description of some veggie delights. Senyen soya is all sweet and spicy and comes with crunchy onions and capsicum, and, another avatar of the soya bean, the Tofu Red and Green Pepper is a pleasant surprise with a coating of peanut crush. If non-vegetarian and calorie-conscious, then Prawn Snowball is your thing, they say. It is minced prawns with wonderful spices, steamed as dumplings. Chicken, lamb and Pou Phed Fish tossed in Schezwan sauce are the other goodies to start off with. There are also special New Year Fortune Platters with squid, mussels, lobsters and, of course, vegetarian selections.

Apart from cauliflower, broccoli, capsicum, Chinese cabbage, onions, carrots and the various meats, fish and fowl, the spread offers an exotic black mushroom (rather unappetisingly called ‘black fungi’). The latter has travelled all the way from Singapore along with many of the sauces, oils and spices for that authentic ‘oriental’ flavour.

Noodles and rice dishes are a plenty. I would have loved to have tried the Who Up Noodles just for its name, but the butter flavoured fried rice had more than filled us up, so we will have to wait to find out ‘Who Up’!

Three of the desserts in the menu card make you pause and think.

Imagine, one of them, Tausu is a pancake stuffed with mashed rajma and served with a scoop of ice-cream. Sounds wonderful, doesn’t it? Daar Saan is honey-coated fried noodles with ice-cream. But on a hot summer night, the thing to round up your meal and keep your kids quiet at the table is a big bowl of Ice Kachang. It is shavings of ice, gloriously mixed up with rose syrup, condensed milk, finely diced pineapples and of course, ice-cream - a sophisticated variant of the ice gola and just as delightful.

Enjoy the Chinese New Year Celebrations with pretty lanterns and the special menu till March 2.

(Dinner on weekdays and lunch and dinner on Sundays). For reservations, call: 0422-2241414

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