Chinese Served Punjabi Style

Pulse

oi-Staff

By Staff

Thursday, February 19, 2009, 12:14

With Indian cuisines making waves across the globe, latest boost is the Purple Rice located in Chandigarh. However, the restaurant is well known for its wide variety of Oriental cuisine. The food lovers can feast on anything ranging from Indonesian, Taiwanese, Chinese, Thai, Japanese and Korean cuisine. The restaurant boasts of live cooking with vegetables being chopped and sautted in front of you, under the guidance of chef Bhaskar. The ambiance enhances visit while you indulge in to your food. Every detail from the food to the decor is something to look forward to.

"We are very popular with Indonesian prawn sattees and then we have Indonesian pomphret and jumbo shimpholes and salt and pepper prawns and there are various other things in starters. In the main course, what we have done with seafood is that we have done a lot of customization. If you go through the menus, we have our every menu, ... the heading says, make your own prawn in any kind of sauce, make your own pomphret with any kind of sauce and same with fish," said Vipul Dua, Managing Director, Purple Rice. (Oriental Wok Caf).

Though the restaurant is known for its Chinese and Thai cuisines, Vipul keeps in mind the traditional Punjabi taste as well. The restaurant favorite Chilly Paneer is famously called 'Chinjabi'. "The trend is changing because people want to be healthy these days. They are more health conscious. They want to be fit. They want to look fit, that's the reason. These oriental dishes have lots of vegetables, so they are the more healthy rather than eating just pure may be for that matter you would be eating cream chicken or butter chicken, you just hav chicken and lots of fat in it," says Simran, one foodie.

"Now-a-days people are traveling a lot, so they are more aware of what all is in like the latest fad, so these multi-cuisines are latest fad now-a-days. Like in any hotel, you will find various types of cuisines from Chinese to oriental, continental and everything, health being the foremost reason. I think so people are more conscious and aware and so these cuisines are picking up," said Babita, another food lover.

You can treat yourself to any specialised menu here with a price ranging from eight to ten dollars, along with a beer or wine from Australia, South Africa, Spain, Italy, France or India. With its growing popularity, you can expect more chains of Purple Restaurant in the near future. AGENCIES