Its six months since and one more round of Citibank Restaurant Week and one more chance to seize the opportunity to taste some high quality authentic food at some of the top restaurants in town.
Since the last time Nikita was not in town, and she loves Thai food, we opted for Benjarong - again!
Booked for a 7:30pm Sunday evening for a relaxed and extended dinner and it was truly enjoyable as always. The best part of such events is that being light eaters - the food is almost always more than filling, while we get to taste a whole lot of variety, which otherwise at such places is not possible for a similar price.
The meal costs 900+tax and generally amounts to ~2500/- for 2 with a couple of soft drinks.
Well we ordered as many different types from the choices that we had to be able to sample more dishes.
While we waited for the food to arrive, the usual platter with crunchy lettuce leaves with the host of condiments to make yourselves tiny rolls out of arrived and we had fun trying out different combinations of fillings ..
I had the Prawns Tom Kha soup while Nikita had the Mushroom Tom Yum soup.
The Tom Kha has a smooth creamy texture because of the coconut milk in it with the delicate flavoring of basil and lemongrass and galangal. The prawns were amazingly soft and just melted in your mouth. This first dish livened things up and set the bar for expectations of the things to come.
For starters, we sampled :
- Corn fritters and
- The light and crunchy spring rolls
- Grilled fish on a stick and
- My favorite and specialty of this place - chicken in pandanus leaves.
There were also the raw mango(below) and three-mushroom(left) salads. With a fresh lemon, coriander and red chilli dressing, it was refreshing..
Now for the main course we had two types of noodles, egg fried rice and jasmine rice - thankfully in small helpings, but we still could not get through all of them ..
The main dishes were fish in hot chilli basil sauce, mushroom and chicken, chilli potatoes and the classic prawns Thai green curry. All of them were fantastic, especially the green curry. Wow!! it was amazing ..
Now after all the above, we were seriously stuffed, but there still was dessert. We asked for really tiny portions, but they were as tiny when they arrived.
We had a jackfruit delight - candied jackfruit, with vanilla ice cream and maybe some coconut milk(?) and the lemongrass ice-cream.
The later is very unique, as I have never had anything sweet with lemongrass, since in most places it is synonymous with savory dishes .
Tucked up in a nice little corner with all the wonderful food being very presented with utmost care, it was an evening well spent !!
Since the last time Nikita was not in town, and she loves Thai food, we opted for Benjarong - again!
Booked for a 7:30pm Sunday evening for a relaxed and extended dinner and it was truly enjoyable as always. The best part of such events is that being light eaters - the food is almost always more than filling, while we get to taste a whole lot of variety, which otherwise at such places is not possible for a similar price.
The meal costs 900+tax and generally amounts to ~2500/- for 2 with a couple of soft drinks.
Well we ordered as many different types from the choices that we had to be able to sample more dishes.While we waited for the food to arrive, the usual platter with crunchy lettuce leaves with the host of condiments to make yourselves tiny rolls out of arrived and we had fun trying out different combinations of fillings ..
I had the Prawns Tom Kha soup while Nikita had the Mushroom Tom Yum soup.
The Tom Kha has a smooth creamy texture because of the coconut milk in it with the delicate flavoring of basil and lemongrass and galangal. The prawns were amazingly soft and just melted in your mouth. This first dish livened things up and set the bar for expectations of the things to come.- Corn fritters and
- The light and crunchy spring rolls
- Grilled fish on a stick and
- My favorite and specialty of this place - chicken in pandanus leaves.
There were also the raw mango(below) and three-mushroom(left) salads. With a fresh lemon, coriander and red chilli dressing, it was refreshing..
Now for the main course we had two types of noodles, egg fried rice and jasmine rice - thankfully in small helpings, but we still could not get through all of them ..
The main dishes were fish in hot chilli basil sauce, mushroom and chicken, chilli potatoes and the classic prawns Thai green curry. All of them were fantastic, especially the green curry. Wow!! it was amazing ..Now after all the above, we were seriously stuffed, but there still was dessert. We asked for really tiny portions, but they were as tiny when they arrived.
We had a jackfruit delight - candied jackfruit, with vanilla ice cream and maybe some coconut milk(?) and the lemongrass ice-cream.The later is very unique, as I have never had anything sweet with lemongrass, since in most places it is synonymous with savory dishes .
Tucked up in a nice little corner with all the wonderful food being very presented with utmost care, it was an evening well spent !!
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