5 Best Chinese Restaurants In New Delhi

5 Best Chinese Restaurants In New Delhi

The most popular cuisine around the country, ‘Chinese’ foods comforts people to their taste buds. Nevertheless, Delhi being the country capital is rich in tourism and lifestyle, so it is not a piece of cake to find an authentic Chinese restaurant for an exquisite dine-out. So, to steer you to your authentic Chinese choice, let us bring you to 5 best Chinese restaurants in New Delhi.

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1. Lotus Pond in New Friends Colony

This new restaurant in New Friends Colony is a home to variant and modern Chinese cuisines. Starting from starters to main course food, the restaurant serves authentic deliciousness to its customers. The best Chinese restaurant in New Delhi is especially authentic for the Non-Veg lovers who sight for lamb, chicken or fish. The chef prepares its own fusion in oriental style making it the best catch for the foodies.

The menu is properly blended for both vegetarian and non-vegetarian with numerous choices. If you are a vegetarian do go for the “Caesar of the Orient” Salad as a starter, it has a mystique aroma of a bouquet of Gangajal, lemon grass, kaffir lime with far east Caesar seasoning. You can find this awesome Caesar salad with a choice of chicken as well.

Jumping onto the main course, you can have pretty authentic Chinese fusion like

For vegetarian:

• Exotic Chinese Greens in Superior Soya & Browned Garlic
• Broccoli, Babycorn in Sesame Chilli sauce

For non-vegetarian:

• General Mao’s Taichin Chicken
• Seabass in Chinese Parsley
• Roast Lamb with Bamboo shoots & Black Mushroom in Soya sauce

You can finish up with succulent dessert. Our recommendation is Honey Glazed Noodles with ice cream, as it is served hot yet with ice cream, and it has crispiness which is WOW at another level. However, you can also find other good choices.

Also, let me tell you, this is a bar cum restaurant, so you can have defined number of alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks.

2. China Garden in Greater Kailash 2 (GK2)

Nelson Wang, the man behind the famous Chinese restaurant ‘China Garden’ holds its franchisees in the major cities in India. Mumbai, New Delhi, Pune, or Gurgaon, China Garden has established a vibrant benchmark when it comes to the quality, consistency and high standard of the Chinese restaurant in India. 

The very awesome Chinese restaurant ‘China Garden’ has two restaurants in New Delhi itself. We here will talk about the one we visited recently, which is in Greater Kailash 2.

With numerous loyal fans, China Garden defines exquisite Chinese cuisine restaurants with wide variant added to its menu book. This bar cum restaurant caters ethnic taste when we seek to eat something that is more Chinese as it is defined. With no doubt in the best architecture inside by the famous architecture firm KNS Mumbai, China Garden is the name that competes to be the best in the F&B restaurants in India. Famed with different awards from all over the world, China Garden menu is best to look at if you seek to eat oriental Chinese fusion.

Let us recommend you the choice that sounds and looks luscious in the same way.

• Dimsums (There are wide variety in Dimsum, and you can try Steamed Chilly Wontons or Chicken & Chive Dumpling as starters, both are very aromatic and juicy)
• Tum Yum Thong (Especially for vegetarian, though spicy, but this yummylicious appetizer soap comes with mushrooms and magical imported ingredients)
• Aromatic Honey Smoked Chicken (This main course dish is a chicken dish smoked with honey and added with different Chinese spices. It is the chef Wang’s family recipe)
• Sapo Prawns (If you want something in spicy, you can try this premium de-shelled prawns, butter fried and blended with secret Chinese spices and is served with a touch of glowing flame)
• Kung Pao Potatoes with Okra (This is an Emperor’s special recipe, comes with lady finger and potatoes dipped in a sweet and spicy sauce, with an onion garnishing, totally VEGETARIAN!)

If you are left with some space in your belly, you can go for Mango pudding or Caramel Custard. That will surely add sweetness to your hotness.

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3. Royal China in Nehru Place

As the name suggests, Royal China is an imperial dining restaurant in New Delhi, which serves the best Chinese cuisines and beverages. The restaurant is believed to be very liberal about the Chinese food and culture and so they put effort to bring out the same in the prospect of an environment. The restaurant holds its position on the 16th floor of Eros towers, Nehru place. So, there lay no doubt that your dinner will be around a great ambiance with an amazing view of Delhi.

Awarded as the Best Chinese in Delhi for the year 2012 by Times Food Awards, this restaurant caters simple yet mouthwatering Chinese cuisines for all food lovers. The menu of Royal China is loaded with some delicious and authentic dishes for people with different taste.

Below are some of the selected food items from the menu which you can try tasting during your next visit:

• Cheung Fun (Wide variety of Cheung fun including prawn, chicken, fish, pork, tenderloin, chicken and asparagus, vegetable sui mai)
• Dim Sum (There are 29 varieties of Dim Sum served in both vegetarian and non-vegetarian category)
• Lamb blended with Ginger Spring Onion, served with egg fried rice. (Main Course)
• Sauteed Pomfret mingled with garlic and spicy salt.

There are many other options for both vegetarian and non-vegetarian, just ask your waiter according to the cuisine you want to taste. Nonetheless, do try fried crispy buns with creamy custard filling as your dessert, it really awesome, and you would surely like to recommend it to your friends as well. If you want to try something new in dessert, then fried ice cream is also a delicious choice.

4. Shang Palace – Shangri-La’s – Eros Hotel in Janpath

Shang Palace, an exotic Chinese delicacy serving restaurant is located in Janpath, New Delhi. Shangri La is a reputed name that ventures the variety of dining choices to the food lovers is the parent who runs Shang Palace. Whether you seek for a multi-cuisine restaurant or any specific cuisine to grasp a delicious dines, Shangri La caters all with premium retreat.

Grappa, Mister Chai, Sorrento, Tamra, or Shang Palace, all these restaurants can whet your appetite.
Shang Palace is among those best extravagant restaurants in New Delhi where you can find the best of Chinese cuisine. Shang Palace offers the best and authentic taste of Sichuan, Yunnan, and Cantonese; all these authentic Chinese cuisines offer the wide variety in vegetarian and non-vegetarian, with a signature style.

Let us share with you the choice that we grabbed and believe me it was pretty delightful.

• Sizzling chicken and garlic chives dumpling (Non-Vegetarian)
• Baked puff with eggplant in chili garlic (Vegetarian)
• Sauna Prawns-chili and garlic marinated prawns cooked on a lava stone. (Non-Vegetarian)
• Clay Pot Chicken with Lotus Root and chili garlic sauce (Non-Vegetarian)
• Beijing Roast Duck (Non-Vegetarian) Shang Palace’s special
• Oriental-fresh fruit platter (Dessert)

This is not the just end; you can also try different whiskeys from different nationality like Japanese, American, Canadian, and Irish.

Chinese Noddles, Source: Wikimedia Commons

5. Culinaire in Greater Kailash 2 and South Extension 2

Among the best Chinese restaurant in New Delhi, Culinaire laid its stand in a different posh area like Greater Kailash, Kailash Colony, South Extension, Punjabi Bagh, Rajouri Garden, and Gurugram.

Culinaire can be best named for Chinese and Thai foods. The restaurant operates from a remote location, and hold seating and home delivery arrangement. The restaurant serves the true aroma of spiciness and intense flavor when your true concern is Chinese or Thai cuisines. At Culinaire, you can enjoy your full feast at a very reasonable price, counting every bite worth the taste.

There are two delightful menus, one each for Thai and Chinese foods. Let us go through the exclusive Chinese dishes.

Chinese special:

• Diced chicken ginger and pepper or Golden fried prawns (Your appetizers choice)
• Crispy chili baby corn or Button mushroom butter garlic (Vegetarian’s appetizers)
• Talumein soup (you can try this Non-veg soap, it’s worth it)
• Prawn chili basil or Chicken Shanghai style (Your Main Course choice)
• Sliced lamb with bamboo shoot in oyster sauce  (Authentic Chinese Main course)
• Crispy potato chili honey (Vegetarian’s Main course)

There are ample varieties of scrumptious food that you can choose from both the menus and live the day with pleasure.