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Mumbai food: Colaba smoothness use serves delicious, stuffing Asian fare
- Updated: January 2, 2017
Pad Kra Prow Kai
Asian food is here to stay. The final year saw a satisfactory share of restaurants dedicated to apportionment baos with innovative fillings, stir-fried noodles, Thai curry versions and dumplings.
Vietnamese Luc Lac
Eastside Story (ES), a two-month-old smoothness use in Colaba, is a newest child on a Asian-influenced block. ES usually delivers in SoBo and a few surrounding areas around smoothness apps though on a special request, we placed an sequence for Bandra East.
Our food arrived on time, packaged in a standard cosmetic boxes with a quirky ES trademark on tip – a torii (Japanese gate) and a male with a rice shawl on a cycle with a momo steamer strapped on. We systematic a sampler menu, covering all a vital protein groups and to be fair, 3 vegetarian options.
Once on a starter
As it incited out, a favourite plate was a vegetarian open face bao, a Shanghai Tofu and Mushroom (R200). It was a multiple of flavours and textures. The pillowy-soft steamed bao was packaged with smokiness from stir-fried mushrooms, light-fried smooth tofu, and crunchiness of dejected peanuts and scallions. It was good adequate to eat on a own, though a further of a concomitant sweet-sour aioli.
The boxes had a ES trademark on them
In terms of aroma, a Caramel Shrimps (Rs 350) scored high. The small prawns were coated in a light brown, garlicky caramel salsa and pig fat, giving it a rational salty-sweet essence and a sharp aftertaste. The cooking of a pig in a Vietnamese Luc Lac (Rs 350) was mark on — it was proposal and juicy. However, a easily seasoned plate had a complicated sip of Chinese vinegar withdrawal us with a sour aftertaste that overstayed a welcome.
Mie Goreng
The tract thickens
ES prides itself on a curries and noodles, both of that were endorsed when fixation a order. The Roti Canai (Rs 250, veg) had us vagrant for another play of a thick, softly spicy, creamy, kadipatta-flavoured curry, that felt like a cranky between a good Thai curry and a burning Malabari curry.
Mushroom Bao
The Indonesian travel dish, Mie Goreng (Rs 220, veg) had a small too most soy sauce. The skinny noodles, boiled with garlic, open onions, carrots, cabbage and peanuts, done for a stuffing and gratifying plate on a own. The Pad Kra Prow Kai (Rs 350), was underwhelming. The jasmine rice was soothing though a bird’s eye chilli didn’t supplement adequate feverishness to a differently tasteless dish.
ES have taken baby stairs in a marketplace and they measure high on essence and apportionment size. Now, if usually they stretched their smoothness radius.
Time: 11.30 am to 3 pm, 6.30 pm
To: 11 pm smoothness areas Colaba, Cuffe Parade, Fort, Nariman Point; check Scootsy for other areas.
Log on to: www.eastsidestory.in