Food&Drink : Why President Hu would go hungry in India?
Amit Varma wrote here on the Chinese President Hu being fed Chicken Manchurian. He says "This is really good," I can imagine President Hu saying as he bites into it. "I never knew Indian cuisine could be so tasty. Different from ours, but good nevertheless."
Tough luck, buddy. No chance in high heaven of any Chinese ever praising what passes for Chinese, that we get in India. We regularly used to get visitors from China to our office in India and after endless carping about food that I heard through other sources, I decided to take matters in my hand. First I sent them to a well known restaurant in Pune, 'Malacca Spice' ,whose founder has traveled all over the far east, during her youth and claims to have "authentic" far eastern food on their menu. The China men went there and their unanimous verdict- "No No good food". Desperate, I sent them to 'Mainland China', this time with a sub-ordinate, thinking maybe communication problems with waiters are getting in the way of them getting good service . Next day, I asked them how the food was.After all 'Mainland China' was authentic in my books, the way I knew it (I hadn't sampled the food in Hong Kong and Bangkok, at that time). With crestfallen faces they declared " No No Chinese food this, this no real Chinese".
So what about Mainland China's campaign claim of it being a "specialty fine dining restaurant". Feed that to an army of hungry Chinamen, I sayyy!
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Tough luck, buddy. No chance in high heaven of any Chinese ever praising what passes for Chinese, that we get in India. We regularly used to get visitors from China to our office in India and after endless carping about food that I heard through other sources, I decided to take matters in my hand. First I sent them to a well known restaurant in Pune, 'Malacca Spice' ,whose founder has traveled all over the far east, during her youth and claims to have "authentic" far eastern food on their menu. The China men went there and their unanimous verdict- "No No good food". Desperate, I sent them to 'Mainland China', this time with a sub-ordinate, thinking maybe communication problems with waiters are getting in the way of them getting good service . Next day, I asked them how the food was.After all 'Mainland China' was authentic in my books, the way I knew it (I hadn't sampled the food in Hong Kong and Bangkok, at that time). With crestfallen faces they declared " No No Chinese food this, this no real Chinese".
So what about Mainland China's campaign claim of it being a "specialty fine dining restaurant". Feed that to an army of hungry Chinamen, I sayyy!
