Chi Na Chi Ni — Restaurant in Panvel

Here luxury meets authentic food! - 'Chi Na Chi Ni' Over the years, I have explored several cuisines and restaurants in search of authentic flavours and food. The food that is made with absolute perfection, right technique and quality ingredients. My search introduced me to 'Chi Na Chi Ni', a Luxury Pan-Asian Cuisine Restaurant. The moment I entered the restaurant, I was flabbergasted with the ambience. Huge chandeliers, chinese fengshui, royal printed wallpapers, and wooden furniture, all together added that Luxury quotient. I was welcomed with a smile and soon escorted to a comfortable seating space. Those huge mirrors and glass windows added to the charm of this place. Known for pan-asian delicacies, this place is known to serve authentic food. I wanted to try Vietnamese cuisine and the staff was kind enough to guide me through ordering some good ones. Inspired by Wu Xing philosophy, where every flavour is of equal importance and what matters is the right balance of all. I had to give it a try. Here's what I had: ✨Salad✨ Vietnamese Mango Salad (Gỏi Xoài) - This salad was all filled with fresh cilantro, green unripe mangoes, mint, cucumber, shallots, and carrots. It also had crunchy peanuts that added a nice nutty flavour. All of the veggies were thinly sliced. The salad dressing had sweet, savory, sour and umami notes. Highly Highly Recommended 🤘🏻 ✨Appetizer✨ Vietnamese Spring Rolls (Gỏi Cuốn) - What better than having spring rolls that are healthy and flavour-packed. These spring rolls were all rolled up with fresh veggies. The outer coating was rice paper wrapper and was made of 100% rice flour. Thin sliced veggies like carrots, lettuce, and so were paired with cilantro and mint. It was served with four dips. First being spicy, the second one was sweet, the third was sour and fourth was savory. ✨Crepes✨ Vietnamese Crepe (Bánh xèo) - It was a crispy stuffed rice pancake which had fresh ingredients in it. The rice pancake had a golden color which I suppose was from turmeric. While it had veggies like carrots, lettuce, olives, jalapenos, cucumber, cilantro, mint, and more. The outer crepe was crunchy and had the right texture. It was served with a sweet spicy dip and had delightful flavours. Highly Recommended 🤘🏻 ✨Pizza✨ Vietnamese Pizza (Bánh Tráng Nướng) - A popular Vietnamese Street food delicacy was next on the table. What amazed me was the preparation of this. Never ever had such healthy pizza. The base was made of grilled rice paper. It was topped with veggies like spring onion, cheese and finished with mayonnaise and sriracha. Such an amazing pizza it was. Highly Highly Recommended 🤘🏻 ✨Soup✨ Vietnamese Soup - Fond of a huge bowl of clear soup filled with veggies? This one is for you. It was a clear soup made of vegetable stock, veggies like mushrooms, baby corn, carrots, mint, cilantro, and topped with lemon. Mild in flavours but was served piping hot. Must try once. ✨Mains✨ Vietnamese Rice - Indeed, one of the most balanced rice i have had after a long time. Worth remembering every bit of it. The key was simplicity. Not too sharp flavours, nor it had any overpowering ingredients. The rice seemed to be cooked in vegetable stock as it had a sweet flavour. The rice was slightly sticky and had a perfect consistency. It was topped with crunchy peanuts that gave it a crunch. The rice had fresh veggies and the seasoning done was mild. Though mild, it had the perfect balance of flavours from different ingredients. Highly Recommended 🤘🏻 Vietnamese Noodles - This had to be on my wishlist. The noodles were wok tossed along with vegetables and was garnished with crunchy peanuts. The noodles were spicy enough to tickle my tastebuds. Had in combination with the Vietnamese rice served, and I absolutely enjoyed it. I am surely coming back. As the menu is quite extensive, this place is a great one if you would like to have some authentic...

"All I associate with Chinese New Year is those lanterns flying up in the sky and bonding over great food"

Where ? Royal Tulip, Navi Mumbai

What? Chinese New Year

When? From now till 15th March

How's it priced? Really reasonable

How's the ambience? Completely fine dining with chandeliers on your top and finely covered tables with cloth.

How's the service? We went for a lunch on a weekday so they were a bit understaffed. But commendable to the stewards, they were managing it all.

What to order? Eight Treasure's soup . I have finished a whole big bowl.

Starters Kunjee Cripsy Veg Crunchy fried Veg tossed in piquant sauce . This one is absolutely TASTY. DESI Chinese. I totally hogged over this one.

Veg Basil Dimsum Exotic veg seasoned with basil chilly and sesame oil Dumpling . The dimsums were perfectly steamed leaving it soft and succulent

Low Bol Gow (Turnip Cake) ! I was full again but had to mention about this famous Chinese dish Semi firm structure rectangular disc cake panseared with ginger garlic and scallion to serve. We had already hogged an entire bowl of those potatoes and soup . Let me be honest we were stuffed and didn't wana waste so we didn't try this.

Golden garlic ice burg fried rice . Simple fried rice with garlic.

Fortune noodles Combine of Asian Veg & soya noodles hint of star anise . The noodles were delicious.

Elgin veg tousi sauce I loved this sauce. It was filled with veggies and made in the perfect soya sauce

We didn't try the Desserts as we were absolutely full with huge portions but they had these in store Red bean sesame ball Fried sesame balls :

Oh we just changed our mind and since we can't resist chocolate, we had the non Chinese Sizzling brownie from their regular menu ! The brownie was soft filled with almonds.

Overall? Loved...

It's one of the lavish and posh place we have been to.The ambience is very chic very classy and they serve authentic Pan Asian cuisine. The staff is very polite, courteous with profound knowledge about the menu and recommended us some amazing dishes. Soothing music, lit ambience , authentic food you ask - they have it. We had - Sushi - Crunchy Cheese Uramaki Sushi which is inside out sushi made with vinegared rice. The rice is rolled around a seaweed or nori sheet. It is then laced with load of philadelphia cheese, iceberg lettuce, cucumber and tempura flakes & toasted sesame seeds to give the sushi mild crunchiness.

Dimsums - This was by far the best dimsum platter we have ever had in our entire life. The platter consists of Ginger Mushroom , Corn spinach and water chestnut, Broccoli Tofu dimsums.

Tai Pei Noodles - Flat rice noodles with roasted peanuts , sprouts and thai herbs. The noodles were translucent and soft. Full of flavors and with every bite we could taste the spice.

White Chocolate and Mango Panacotta with Berry compote - Uffffffffffffff!!!!!!. BEST BEST DESSERT WE HAD SO FAR IN OUR ENTIRE LIFE. We highly recommend you to try this. The fresh berry sauce makes every creamy spoonful perfectly sweet and tangy. Loved it.

Food - 🌟🌟🌟🌟/5 Ambience - 🌟🌟🌟🌟/5 Service - 🌟🌟🌟🌟/5 Price - 💸💸💸

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