Sid Khullar - Chef at Large

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Review: Wok and Talk, Great India Place, NOIDA

By Sid • Apr 24th, 2008 • Category: Asian Food, Dinner, Lunch, Non Vegetarian Food, Oriental Food, Posts, Restaurants In NOIDA, Reviews, Soups, Starters, Vegetarian Food

Wok and Talk is a part of the Spoon Food Court, in the Great India Place, NOIDA. Just like any other food court, you can take in the many aromas wafting around the place, the hubbub of many people talking at once and the occasional loud crash of a strike at the bowling alley ahead.
The [...]



Review: The Fortune Cookie, Sector 18, NOIDA

By Sid • Apr 13th, 2008 • Category: Asian Food, Deserts, Lunch, Non Vegetarian Food, Oriental Food, Posts, Restaurants In NOIDA, Reviews, Salads, Snacks, Soups, Starters, Vegetarian Food

Meeting with some long lost friends, their parents, their children and so on, we landed up at Fortune Cookie on Friday night.
It’s a nice place really - the owner is an ex-shippie who has ransacked his house and placed all his collected oriental artifacts in the restaurant. Decorated with an overpowering shade of red, The [...]



Review: Flluid Lounge, Mosaic Hotel, Sector 18, NOIDA

By Sid • Apr 4th, 2008 • Category: American Food, Asian Food, Deserts, Dinner, Fusion Food, Indian Food, Italian Food, Lunch, Middle Eastern Food, Non Vegetarian Food, Oriental Food, Posts, Restaurants In NOIDA, Reviews, Salads, Snacks, Soups, Starters, Vegetarian Food

Flluid is in the Mosaic Hotel and is probably one of the most interesting lounge bars in the area. They have an adequate selection of food and quite an array of liquors. In fact, Flluid probably has the best stocked bar in NOIDA!
On entering you feel you’ve stepped into some location in the Arctic or [...]



Review: Republic of China, Great India Place, NOIDA

By Sid • Apr 3rd, 2008 • Category: Asian Food, Dinner, Fast Food, Lunch, Non Vegetarian Food, Oriental Food, Posts, Restaurants In NOIDA, Reviews, Snacks, Soups, Starters, Vegetarian Food

Republic of China is a part of the Spoon Food Court, in the Great India Place, NOIDA. The standard food court ambience applies here with lots of places to sit, television screens in abundance and the pleasant murmur of many conversations happening at once.
There aren’t many options available, and they don’t seem to want [...]



Review: All American Diner, India Habitat Centre

By Sid • Apr 2nd, 2008 • Category: American Food, Breakfast, Deserts, Dinner, Fast Food, Lunch, Non Vegetarian Food, Posts, Restaurants in Delhi, Reviews, Salads, Snacks, Soups, Starters, Vegetarian Food

We met up here for lunch with brother and wives [Indu, Navnita]. Located in the India Habitat Centre on Lodhi road, The All American Diner is a good choice for the odd meal. 
The very first point in the experience is the people at the gate of IHC. Very polite and helpful, it is a good [...]



Rice Soup with Shrimp Dumplings

By Sid • Mar 27th, 2008 • Category: Asian Food, Dinner, Lunch, Non Vegetarian Food, Oriental Food, Soups

I’m not well today - probably the flu. But that doesn’t stop me from cooking. No siree, it doesn’t. So, after making the rice for the ‘How to cook’ series (next post), I was wondering how to use it, besides the obvious curry route.
So… chopped some spring onions and carrots and put them in [...]



Tender, Tender Chicken for Soups

By Sid • Jan 21st, 2008 • Category: American Food, Asian Food, British Food, Dinner, Italian Food, Lunch, Non Vegetarian Food, Oriental Food, Soups

Ever eaten chicken soup in a restaurant and wondered how they get the boneless chicken in it to be so tender? I mean, chicken on the bone is usually quite alright, but boneless chicken is typically the breast, which is very lean and therefore, not as tender as say, the leg.
Try this. Slice the boneless [...]