Asia 7, the place that has always been people’s first option
when dining in Ambience Mall, Gurgaon. Also famous for their lunch buffet that
attracts a lot of office going people out for team lunches, people shopping in
the mall, and residents of Gurgaon looking for a nice Asian meal. I’ve tried
their lunch buffet several times and totally loved it (hence, the repeat
visits) but have never gotten a chance to try their ala carte menu.
Visited Asia 7 for the Dimsum Festival that was on till the
end of February, and fell completely in love with ALL their dimums!
The Dimsum Festival at Asia 7 is one that catered to all
palettes. They had the most delicious variety to choose from, with the most
stunning types of dimsums. The Broccoli Crunchy Almond Dumpling had a stuffing
of very finely chopped broccoli with equally finely chopped almonds, and tasted
just divine! The Crystal Veg Dumplings were very crunchy and juicy, and the
Shanghai Veg Dumpling was equally soul-satisfying.
Out of the non veg ones my favourite included Prawn Har Gao-
chunky prawn, no fuss no excess seasoning, just plain old delicious juicy prawn
stuffed inside the dumpling. The Schezwan Chicken Dumplings were great too.
Slightly spicy chicken with a lovely flavour. You didn’t need any dipping sauce
to go with it, it was delicious by itself. The Steamed Chicken Dumplings are
the safest option for people who like the basic chicken dumplings done well and
don’t like to take risks. But the one that was very different from the rest was
the Prawn ‘n’ Spinach Roll. The spinach was rolled around prawn and the
dumpling was served over a spicy salty ginger dressing. Dipping this particular
dimsum into a sauce would have been a real shame. Bangs and bangs of flavour,
and comparatively heavier than the rest of the dimsums even though the size of
this one was smaller. The only dimsums that weren't up to the mark were the Pan Fried Chicken Kothe. The stuffing was filled with flavour and tasted lovely, but the dimsum had too much oil in it.
The most essential thing with dimsums are the sauces. There
were 5 beautiful dimsum sauces and the presentation of these was damn cute! Each
better than the previous one, I am so impressed with the restaurant for this.
Places hardly have so many options for dimsum sauces, firstly, and even the
ones that do, don’t get all of them right. Asia 7 got each sauce bang on right!
The chilli sauce, garlic based, chilli oil, sweet chilli, peanut based- all of
them were smacking!
The festival was a really good step by the restaurant for
showing they are so much more than just their lunch buffet. I’m in love with
their dimsums! The best part being- all the dimsums had a translucent coating
on them- not at all excessively thick. Also, they didn’t fall open when you
picked them up with a fork or a chopstick. For all dimsum lovers, they have a lot
of these dimsums on their normal menu too. You must must try them out! The
dimsums will really not disappoint you.
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