Chinese restaurants in India
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McLlo Restaurant
Crowded nightly and justifiably popular, this big place above the noisy bus stand area serves a mind-boggling menu of Indian, Chinese and international fare, including pizzas and pasta. It’s also one of the best places to enjoy an icy cold beer (Rs100), and it has cider and wines.
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Shamyana Restaurant
Set back from the Blvd, Shamyana serves up top-notch Mughlai and Chinese food in a bright, comfortable dining room. The house rogon josh (lamb and tomato curry) is a veritable feast.
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Bar-B-Q
Three interconnected dining rooms offer different but similar menus in this enduring family favourite. Decor is comfortably unpretentious.
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Summer Harvest
Top-notch Indian and Chinese food, cold beers and international sports on the TV attract travellers to this warm and inviting restaurant.
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Glenary’s
This elegant restaurant atop the famous bakery and cafe receives mainly rave reviews: of note are the continental sizzlers, Chinese dishes, tandoori specials and the highly recommended veg gratin (especially if you’re off spicy food). We’ve heard a few grumbles that it’s coasting on its reputation, but most people love it.
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Canton Restaurant
The AC dining room of Hotel Surya’s excellent restaurant has a colonial elegance, and on warm evenings you can eat out in the garden. The menu is probably a bit ambitious – there are Indian, Chinese, continental, Korean and even Mexican dishes – but the food is good, with some unusual offerings, such as fish Portuguese.
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Malhotra
Snug, smartish Malhotra offers tasty Indian, continental and Chinese food that keeps it busy with a mix of locals and backpackers. Next door is Malhotra’s southern sister, Malhotra’s Dosa Please, with dosas from Rs35.
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Song Hay
This modest but prize-winning restaurant cooks authentic Chinese food at prices that are especially reasonable before 5pm when half-priced, half-size portions are available.
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Shinkow’s Chinese Restaurant
Shinkow’s is an Ooty institution and the simple menu of chicken, pork, beef, fish, noodles and rice dishes is usually pretty good, if kind of uninspired.
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Zen
A high-ceilinged place with a dash of old-style glitz – walls quilted like a Chanel handbag – this has a venerable Chinese menu, including tasty dishes such as crispy sesame lamb and Szechwan prawns, with a few Japanese and Thai cameos.
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Raja’s Café
The central location is great, as is the restaurant design, with a delightful wrought-iron spiral staircase linking a shaded courtyard with a temple-view terrace. But it’s the food that steals the show. The Indian dishes are superb – the paneer kofta (unfermented cheese and vegetable balls) and chicken kababi (barbecued chicken pieces marinated in yoghurt), in particular – and not too expensive, and there’s good-quality Italian and Chinese too.
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Zen Restaurant
The welcoming statement that the Chinese will eat anything with four legs but a table and anything with two wings but a plane does make you ponder what 'delicacy' might emerge from the kitchens next, but rest assured that this stylish new joint avoids anything dodgy and just sticks to praise-winning Chinese and Thai staples.
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Bellpepper Restaurant
The Bellpepper is an intimate, contemporary restaurant popular for its tandoori dishes. The murg tikka lababdar (tandoori chicken basted with garlic, ginger, green chillies, and pistachio-and cashew-nut paste) is divine and shares the menu with Afghani dishes and Hyderabadi biryanis. No booze available.
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Copper Chimney
Near Handi Restaurant, Copper Chimney is a chic, elegant place with a friendly waiter army and a rollicking horse mural. It offers veg and nonveg Indian as well as a small selection of Continental and Chinese food. Indian wines are available to accompany the generous portions.
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Mughal Room
On the top floor of Clarks Shiraz Hotel, you can dine in style with a distant view of the Taj and Agra Fort, although you won’t see anything at night. There’s live classical music here every evening and the food is thoughtfully prepared Indian, Chinese and continental.
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Parklane Hotel
Choose from a wide selection of Indian, Continental, Chinese and Mexican dishes at this popular restaurant-bar, where food is served by candlelight at night, with occasional live music. Occasional barbecue nights have a special range of kebabs and grills on offer.
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Flags
This super-popular global cuisine place was on hibernation mode during research, and should be back with its legendary Lebanese delights and dishes such as Mongolian cauliflower and yakisoba (fried Japanese noodles) soon.
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El Chico
A swish restaurant with a reliable Indian, Chinese and continental menu, including fish dishes and sizzlers. Next door, El Chico Takeaway (snacks Rs15 to Rs45) tempts diners with ice creams, cakes, cheesecake and savoury snacks.
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China Garden Restaurant
In the China Garden Hotel near the Motor Stand, this is Kalimpong’s best Chinese restaurant. The authentic soups, noodles and the spicy ginger chicken attract aficionados, though several Indian curries have snuck onto the menu.
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Berco’s
With white and black booths, and moody lighting, Berco’s buzzes with Delhiites digging into its flavoursome Indianised Chinese cuisine. There’s a lounge bar upstairs, which should be licensed by the time you read this.
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Yafah Restaurant
Next door to Haifa Restaurant, Middle Eastern flavours waft from this elegant space. Baba ghanouj, tahini, moussaka and falafel share the menu with Indian and Chinese dishes. Occasionally there's live classical music.
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China Garden
Spread over three levels, this slinky, ornate (think jade and waterfalls) Chinese restaurant does sensational garlicky prawns. There’s a champagne bar at ground level, where Indian champagne (Kingfisher) costs Rs200.
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The Zaika
A clean, modern oasis on busy, dusty Lewis Rd. As well as excellent curries and tandoori there is an extensive Chinese menu but alas no beer. Fresh prawns and pomfret are ritually tandooried on Wednesday and Sunday.
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Lhasa Restaurant
Dine in a convivial walled garden or a low-ceilinged oriental dining room with elements of Buddhist design. The spicy boneless chicken balls are excellent, but some Chinese and Tibetan dishes are rather lacklustre.
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Ganesh Restaurant
Run by friendly staff, this no-nonsense restaurant – minimal decor, plastic chairs – serves good-quality Indian and Chinese, with vegetarian and meat dishes, as well as the usual curd and banana–based breakfasts.
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