Ming Yang — Restaurant in Mumbai

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One of the basic focal points of first rate food in a metropolitan city is the amazing feel you to a great extent coincide with a fair restaurant. To give family a change treat them to an extraordinary night at an extreme five star restaurant, where they can value fine food just as staggering natural factors as well. Regardless of the way that Mumbai is flooding with such rich top of the line diners, nobody verges on 'Ming Yang', while examining Chinese cooking. Chinese food in Mumbai is lip-smackingly varied with amazing choices in bistros to eat at, yet Ming Yang wears the jeans through its ideal standing and staggering inclination. What used to be Regent is by and by Taj Lands End at Bandra West and is the rich region of Ming Yang. Huge names consistently progressive the spot for its luxurious style and tasty food.

Ming Yang has a remaining to keep up, especially where its food is concerned. Since the time Regent changed hands with Taj, zone isn't the single thing they have exchanged. Ming Yang holds its head, Chef David under whose course the bistro has quite recently rose the ladder of progress significantly higher. Start researching Ming Yang's magnificent Chinese menu through the starters, for instance, butternut squash dumpling, burn siu puff, lotus root wastes with sweet stew plunge, squid tossed with pepper salt, new singed Sichuan bean stew potato, nectar covered pork save ribs and kelp lobster soup. Move along further with, kailan in ginger wine sauce, Singapore stew prawn with steamed bun, Nanjing peking duck, Hakka braised pork stomach, sheep and kenya beans in XO sauce, fish Japanese udon noodles and cut chicken in ginger wine sauce.

Taste on some specialist tea near to your eat and find comfort in this little custom. For desserts Ming Yang does spiced crème brulee, origin chocolate mousse, jasmine tea rice pudding with poached peach raspberry compote, mandarin darsan and date pancakes with vanilla frozen yogurt. The eating space at Ming Yang is fundamentally dazzling with immense blustery estimations and sensitive wooden enhancements. Pruned Bonsai plants by and large, an enormous splendid winged snake and lines and sections of tea pots appeared on the racks makes up for the way of Ming Yang. Sit near the fortified glass windows from where you get a stunning viewpoint outwardly. The look is rich, light, formal and elegant. Expensive anyway supported, in spite of any difficulty. Seize the momentand you will all remember those...

We have had many memorable dining experiences @ Ming Yang, Taj Lands end over the last few years. But there was a long gap so today on the occasion of Father’s Day we decided to have a family lunch @ Ming Yang. We were 8 members. But a series of disappointing things happened. Firstly, when we ordered beer, it came with glasses that were not chilled in cooler . I told the waiter that you used to serve chilled glasses. He replied "we are not allowed to chilled the glasses, that is the new LAW“. I found the reply a bit non sensical as well rude but decided to drink beer from the bottle. Then we were ordering starters. Since we do not eat deep fried food esp at restaurants, I suggested my wife not to order anything which had "crispy“ in its name though there were majority of crispy starters. We ordered Sichuan Prawns, sichuan vegetables and sichuan chicken. When the food came on the table we realized that all the three dishes were deep fried. We told the waiter to send the restaurant manager. A young lady named Anshul Dixit came. She didn’t have the persons of the manager of the restaurant. I told her about the problem. She offered to change the dishes. But the look of the food was so yucky that we lost our appetite and decided not to eat there. Then I asked Anshul to call thechef. A guy named Yashraj came and said he is the su chef . He looked like an apprentice than a su chef. It was quite apparent as to why the food was so terrible. Not only that food was deep fried but also it was not the standard Asian food with lots of herbs and Asian greens vegetables, water chestnuts etc. which we usually get in Chinese food. Also 50 percent of content in chicken dish was of fried red chillies. We immediately booked a table in Yauatcha which is close by from Taj Lands end. The name card that Anshul gave me had the name as Manager Vista .. which is the coffee shop next to Ming Yang. So I realized that neither there was a manager nor a chef. This famous restaurant was being run by juniors. I sense the problem is much deeper than and can’t be called one off incident . Senior management is apparently responsible for this downfall in food and service. For us, this was the last visit to our favorite Ming Yang. Also henceforth there will always be a big question mark on Taj Brand. However to their credit, we were not charged...

This review has been pending and repeated reminders by Google have fallen on my deaf ears! Here goes now.. My cousin and I were at the Taj lands' end and as he was in town for a brief period, wanted to catch up with a few friends. We planned an afternoon meal at the Ming Yang with 5 other friends joining us and were looking forward to a lovely meal with great company. Unfortunately, this was a rather huge disappointment. To start, for drinks they have a rather limited menu and are not keen on bringing some brands which we wanted from their lobby level bar. So be it, but to our horror they didn’t know and have angostura bitters, something I love to add to my gin and tonic! This was surprising considering its available at smaller standalone restaurants and one would expect the Taj to have it. Well they gave me their in-house brew as a bitter which was not much to write home about. The starters were passable, the mains were rather tepid and lacklustre. We ordered the crispy lamb on recommendation of the maître d’ (actually the entire meal was on her recommendation), it s was terrible, we had to send it back. It was tough and chew and nothing like how a crispy lamb would taste. The burnt garlic fried rice and pan fried noodles followed and they were a tad better than the lamb, but a far cry from what one would expect from a super speciality restaurant at a 5 star deluxe outlet. The stir-fried Chinese greens were nice, now I guess they couldn’t have messed that one up! All and all, I would not recommend the place at all, in fact on a Saturday afternoon to see it at approx 40% capacity, guess says it all. I do love the Taj group of hotels and I would sincerely hope that it was a just a bad day for the chef, though...