Asia Kitchen By Mainland China — Restaurant in Mumbai

Asia Kitchen by Mainland China is known for serving delicious delicacies from various streets of Asia under one roof. Their restaurants have open live kitchen view where you can see chefs tossing, tempering and whipping while you wait for your food to arrive.

Recently we visited their outlet located at Palladium on 3rd Floor for Lunch. There were so many dishes that we wanted to try on the menu which baffled and confused us so Mr. Rames suggested to try out their 10 course set lunch menu @Rs. 745 + taxes only which includes everything i.e. soup, appetizers, main course and desserts as well. We thought of it as a better option which will allow us to try out small portions of many dishes rather than binging on 2 or 3 dishes. Hence without a thought we just went for it. You can binge on this menu from Monday to Thursday (except festive days). The service by Mr Rajesh & Mr Ram was just amazing.

The restaurant also gave us a pleasant surprise. There were no Jain options on the menu, However Mr. Subbu conveyed our preferences to the chef and volia in each course there was a dish with Jain option. Just loved the hospitality and the warmth that the staff provides while you satiate yourself.

Let talk about what we ordered and how was it. If you want to order mocktails along with this menu then you can order it @Rs. 69.

DRINKS

We wanted to go with something fruity and refreshing. so we were recommended to try out

Malaya Spiced Melon: It was made from freshly crushed water melon, ginger and lemon soda. It was fruity and good to taste.

Jade Spring: Its a beautiful blue curacao mocktail with hint of mint leaves and lemon in it. it was refreshing.

SOUP Eight Treasure Soup: The chef served the same soup in Jain and Non Jain as well. When the soup arrived it was a clear soup with veggies like carrot, bock choy, water chestnut, tofu etc. My perception was that it must not be having flavours at all, but when I sipped it there was a burst of flavours. It was a good experience.

DIMSUMS Siu Mai: 4 pieces of steaming hot Dimsums stuffed with veggies arrived at out table along with 3 dimsum sauces (soy and chilly, Chilli and garlic oil, Onion and garlic oil). These Dimsums tasted amazing with all the sauces. Recommended..!!

APPETIZERS Crackling Spinach: We wanted to order this as it seemed to be interesting. Small crispy crackled spinach leaves along with seasme seeds was a bit on sweeter side. To make you relate to things its an Asian Chivda. Recommended..!!

Corn Chilly Pepper: Crispy and spicy corn tossed with pepper and served with finely chopped onion. It was delicious and is perfect munching to have it with your drinks. Highly Recommended..!!

MAINS Stir Fried Asian Greens and Tofu: Green veggies like zucchini, broccoli, bok choy, edamame and tofu were stir fried and served in a clay dish. It was seasoned with salt. It was good to taste.

Water chestnut, corn and Potato with smoked chilli Sauce: This one is a tangy gravy with water chestnuts, corn and potato. It tastes good with Jasmine Rice or Lemon Grass Fried Rice.

Lemon grass Fried Rice: This one is a classic fried rice with lemon grass flavours. It was different and good to taste.

DESSERT We ordered Crispy Honey noodles and Vanilla Ice-cream. The vanilla ice-cream was very creamy, flavourful and lip smacking. We tried eating crispy honey noodles with ice-cream and it turned out to be a very good...

Asia Kitchen by Mainland China is one of my all time favourite place for fine dining and making good memories of great satisfying experiences. This weekend we have planned for a grand weekend lunch at -

Asia Kitchen by Mainland China Shop no - T 16-17 Road Phoenix Mall Lower Parel Mumbai Maharashtra - 400013

Christmas 🎄☃️🎄 has already arrived here to boost up our festive vibes. Nice decor, excellent interiors, huge restaurant with happy foodies.

My love of this Group is eternal, the reasons are -

1. The beautiful ambience
2. Very organised
3. Can easily book my table in advance
4. Best place to celebrate life, good food and having good times 5)All the staffs & chefs are vaccinated
5. All the staffs are wearing masks
6. Everyone is following all the health related precautions strictly
7. Easy to parking space for my car
8. Great co-ordination among staffs
9. Restaurant manager is very co-operative
10. Bar is serving signature cocktails and mocktails
11. Open kitchen vibrates warmth and happiness
12. Comfortable place to take the children
13. Order is taken by understanding the choices of the customers. You can always make a special request to Chef if you want to eliminate or add anything particular in our dish. Or make the dish less/more spicy
14. Takes good care of the customers
15. All the staffs speak and understand English
16. Well curated menu with various options
17. Food is always served hot
18. The taste, presentation and portion of food are superb
19. Always enjoy here and make good memories. Desserts are super delicious.

Our lovely weekend lunch - Started with some fresh signature mocktails Eight Treasure Soup Vegetarian is awesome Prawn Har gow Truffle Edamame Dumpling - The dumplings are tasty. Chicken with Assorted Pickled Pepper Ginger and Pan fried Asian Chilli Fish - Loved the taste Crispy Lotus stem with curry leaves and black pepper are awesome Crispy Corn Kaffir Lime, a great starter dish Chicken with roasted garlic sauce and Fish in Chilli Basil - Both are excellent curry dishes for main course. Exotic Vegetable Smoked Chilli 👌 Vegetable Thai Green with tofu - loved this flavourful dish. Vegetable hakka noodles and Edamame & Vegetable Fried Rice - both are excellent.

Yummy desserts - Chocolate Dome served with hot chocolate sauce. Steamed Coconut Dumplings served with honey, butter sauce - must try 👍

Make great dining experience memories here. I highly...

We decide to to try Mainland Chinas Asia Kitchen on Valentines day for dinner since we had many great meals at Mainland China over the last 15 years … sad to see it go we were optimistic to try its new avatar. Guessing it would be busy on the 14 of Feb for dinner we made a booking over the phone. Made it there only to be greeted by a cocky, over-smart manager who very condescendingly seated us as a table, almost like he was doing us a favour. Not the welcome we expected.

Once seated the service was better, waiters were polite and efficient but quite unable to help any queries. Blank stares were the only answers i got. The food got to our table quite quick despite the crowd. The starters we ordered included a prawn tempura sushi roll, dynamite prawn and pickled chicken. The pickled chicken and dynamite prawns were excellent. The sushi was well below average/borderline terrible. For mains we orders the Singapore crab, general taos chicken and truffle rice. The crab was okay at best not authentic. Wouldn’t repeat. The chicken was good. The rice was just awful, more like a risotto. Not at all oriental in any way. Complete misfit. Sticky and stodgy. The portions were quite contrasting, the chicken starter, prawn starter, chicken main & rice were decent but the sushi and crab portion were really tiny, barely enough for 2 to share. both of them are a definite miss.

The ambiance is nice but its not somewhere you go for the "THE AMBIANCE". Looked great, very comfortable and functional but got quite noisy due to the open kitchen and the lack of fabric furnishings. Its a functional place to eat and move on, not the kind you would sit, chat over a drink with your meal, you would typically visit just for the meal.

Pricing is reasonable when you see the menu but after seeing the quality of food and portions, its not value for money or money well spent. average dish is ₹400-500+. and an average table of 2 will require 4-5 dishes at a minimum.

Would I recommend it ? yes its worth a TRY if your looking for something a bit(only a bit) different. Instead of going back to the same asian restaurants this simply serves as a change.

Would I go back ? Don’t think so …. sadly I’ve tried it once and I doubt i’ll return unless I read great things.

Bottom line is that the food is nothing to write home about, the service is so so, the ambiance 'okay’ and for the money you pay you...