<img src="https://superdesk-pro-c.s3.amazonaws.com/sd-nepalitimes/20221108111152/636a357b9c7e80680e0482b1jpeg.jpg" alt="" width="640" height="478"/>With five outlets all over the Kathmandu, Bawarchi is popular for its Indian food. But lesser known is the Tangra Chinese cuisine that the restaurant also offers. At the Tangra Chinese fest in Bawarchi at Baber Mahal, you can now go Indo-Chinese in style.The Tangra region in East Kolkata was famous for its Chinese migrant settlement since the British days. Tangra's cuisine thus evolved to become an amalgamation of Indian and Chinese taste, much like Pernakan is an amalgam of Malay and Chinese cuisine in Singapore and Penang. Bawarchi's new menu offers items like Hakka noodles, originally Chinese noodles made with a twist of Indian spices."We found that Tangra-Chinese really suits the Nepali palae, since people here have always enjoyed items such as Chicken Chilli," says Marcia Adhikari of Bawarchi. She says the idea of the festival is to make food fun.Even though Chinese cuisine may be meat-heavy, the menu in Bawarchi has been specially designed to provide equal vegetarian and non-vegetarian options. Vegetarians have a delicious range to choose from,  such as the Nimbu Mirch Babycorn, Salt n Pepper Mushroom and Veg Dim Sum. And while Indian food can be heavy and rich, the fest's menu is a refreshing change for those looking for light on oil snacking options like the Nimbu Mirch Babycorn. The babycorns are fried with a soft texture, with the natural taste oozing through with each bite. They say what is tasty cannot be healthy, this dish proves that adage wrong. A variety of sauces add spark to the dish, with sweet and spicy options, ensuring that these babycorns are not like anything you have partaken of before.<img src="https://superdesk-pro-c.s3.amazonaws.com/sd-nepalitimes/20221108111152/636a357f9c7e80680e0482b2jpeg.jpg" alt="" width="640" height="478">The Salt n Pepper mushroom is another classic spicy, and fun dish, bursting with Indian spice and sauce flavours, a sharp contrast to the babycorn. This variety, however, is a pleasant reminder of the origins of Tangra-Chinese as a mixture of two distinct cuisines.Bawarchi has offered Tangra Chinese for a while, but this time there are new items such as the Tandoor Bun. Another new dish, the Macher Fingers with Tartar sauce is designed to resemble Chinese stick food for an authentic experience.The chef also plates all dishes so that they look exquisite. There are delightful desert options to end your dining on a sweet note. Bawarchi's signature kulfi's have been elevated with almond and chocolate dust. The Strawberry Phirni, a strawberry flavoured version of the Indian desert khir is a new addition.Let us raise a toast at the Tangra Chinese food fest so that Hind and Chin are bhai-bhai.Until 16 April Bawarchi, Baber Mahal Revisited

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<figure><img src="https://superdesk-pro-c.s3.amazonaws.com/sd-nepalitimes/20221107101156/6368d6e39c7e80680e0314aejpeg.jpg" alt="" width="1000" height="561"/><figcaption>Arniko's Executive Lunch menu</figcaption></figure>Arniko Room at <a href="https://annapurna-hotel.com/">Hotel Annapurna</a> is not a new restaurant and honors the famous Kathmandu artist who took Nepali architecture to China and beyond. Now, the inspiration is travelling in the opposite direction: from China to Nepal in the form of exclusive cuisine.Since Chinese cuisine of dubious authenticity is available in even the simplest eatery in Kathmandu, many high-end restaurants have been setting themselves apart with ‘authentic’ Chinese taste.Arniko has stuck to its time-tested recipes in its new ‘Executive Lunch’ menu, and from the queue outside one recent afternoon, the idea seems to work well.The special lunch menu is targeted at executives and bankers, and for this the restaurant location is just right: on Darbar Marg. Light and simple, the menu has three options each with three courses, including varieties of soup, fried rice, noodles, chicken and fish items, tons of greens and desserts.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0xlzGKmo_MSous Chef Santosh Subedi says of the menu: “We wanted to tap Kathmandu’s exotic food craze and the willingness to spend a good amount for lunch, without compromising on health.”Chef Subedi joined Arniko Room nearly three years ago after a longish culinary stint in Dubai. He calls himself ‘The Nepali Dumpling Master’ (sounds grander than ‘Momo Man’), pioneering new additions to the menu like Mantou Bun (a Chinese steamed bun).On Chinese New Year, Arniko Room laid out a spread that included a Shitake Chicken soup, an authentic Chinese dish that became the talk of the town. In contrast, not many enjoyed the Chinese style handmade noodles the kitchen introduced for its Chinese noodle festival. The Chef took this as a cue to stick with what customers really like, rather than on ‘Indo-Chinese’ items.Read also: <a href="http://archive.nepalitimes.com/article/business/the-real-taste-of-china-in-soaltee,4116">A real taste of China</a>, Ziyu Linhttps://youtu.be/k8BnVcxuGYA In fact, many of the restaurant’s customers love its Chinese cuisine so much that they have ‘regular’ orders. One recent afternoon, a group of Chinese and Nepali customers sat down at a table for four and ordered: “The regular: Schezwan fried rice or noodles, Hong Kong or Kung Pao chicken and ginger prawn.” Chef Subedi says the restaurant’s secret is that it doesn’t have any secrets: “We do not use MSG or any other seasonings, the taste comes from the balance of the flavours of salt, pepper, sauces and fresh ingredients.”Even though the number of Chinese tourists in Kathmandu is rising, the restaurant mostly sees Nepali and multi-cultural customers enticed to come again and again by the new Executive Lunch menu.Executive Lunch at Arniko Room Sunday- Friday, 12-3pm, Rs1,500++Hotel Annapurna, Darbar Marg, (01) 4221711<figure><img src="https://superdesk-pro-c.s3.amazonaws.com/sd-nepalitimes/20221107101156/6368d6e69c7e80680e0314afjpeg.jpg" alt="" width="1000" height="561"><figcaption> </figcaption></figure>

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