The Rice Bowl restaurant — Restaurant in Ladakh

The Rice Bowl is an attractive property with a huge flower bush drawing your attention from the street. The space inside is an absolute delight. There's no shortage of seating. There's an indoor dining space for chilly days. An outdoor seating area overlooking the street and the aforementioned flower bush. Then there's assorted seating under a variety of tents and awnings in huge tree garden. The restaurant is festooned in Tibetan colours and fabrics, and prayer flags. The Rice Bowl has a mind-bogglingly huge menu, running into 12 pages. I looked at the dessert menu on the last page and ordered Banoffee Pie with Icecream, as it was a warm afternoon. Totally overawed by the sprawling menu of Tibetan, Chinese, Korean, Italian, Indian dishes plus a lot more of global provenance, I played safe and ordered a chicken thenthuk. The banoffee pie was a delight, the thenthuk a disappointment. While the chopped vegetables - carrot slices, cabbage and spinach were fine, the chicken and dumplings seemed a bit raw. After the lunch, I sat for a while, enjoying the light afternoon breeze in the garden. This is a place that was invented for curling...

Today we ordered bibimbab and kimbab from the restaurant. They made fool of us. We told them to pack the food. When we arrive at home and opened the packet, what we found was worst. Instead of bibimbab , we got local rice and vegetables . They didn't even put sauce in it. Even the ingredients was not there and also kimbab was not good too. They should not make fool of thise people who wanted to take away the...

The food is below average. I had the worst tea and coffee here. Mutton soup was uncooked. When asked to return the owner lady said this is what we eat, as if fooling the tourists. I strongly recommend not to visit this place. Infact, there is a better restaurant opposite side called Otsal Restaurant. Much much...