Baby Dragon, Sector 18, NOIDA

By Sid • May 1st, 2008 • Category: Restaurants In NOIDA, Reviews

Bumping into Nishant and Prashant, Culinary Entrepreneurs at large, we thought of having dinner together. Always ready to try new (and sometimes risky) restaurants, we decided to check out Baby Dragon.

Baby Dragon! The name has kept me away in the past for some reason and as it turned out, I was right to stay in visual distance. Located in Sector 18, it has been around for a while, though the mention of its name doesn’t really send people into delicious shudders of culinary memories. Its the opposite really, as I will proceed to illustrate.

For some reason, the place has a door and a rubberised plastic strip curtain before the door. On entering, you find a small, relatively cramped dining area, but pleasant to look at nonetheless. The staff are friendly and attentive. One thing I liked was the presence of table mats and pencil colors that my daughter, Cherie, could color and spend time with.On to the food. We ordered vegetarian and non vegetarian lemon coriander soup, a mixed meat noodle soup meal, a vegetarian Thai red curry, chilli chicken, chicken dim sums, noodles and lime sodas for all of us.

The lime sodas were good.

The lemon coriander soup had red chilli powder/flakes added to it and was over flavored and quite pungent. The noodle soup meal, while quite well presented and full of vegetables, chicken and prawns, was totally devoid of flavor. Closer to hot water than soup. The chilli chicken was over fried, had way too much vinegar and was tough. Each and every one of the dumplings were stuck to the container they came in and broke apart on the way to our places. They were quite ordinary otherwise. The Thai green curry was concentrated enough to be nearly called a paste rather than a curry. It contained all the right ingredients, but the flavors of lemon grass and galangal were overpowering. The noodles were dry and uninspired. All in all, the food was a disaster, though the portions were ok.

The prices were a surprise. Our total bill was just a little over INR 1,000 and thats with 4 adults and one child.

If you’re looking for good food, this isn’t the place for you.

Update 14th May 2008: Went to Baby Dragon for another go. The area outside was stinking of urine. The dining area inside was stinking of the same. Placed an order and tried to stay put, but the smell was overwhelming. Cancelled my order and left. Not good.

Sid

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