
'Tis that time of the year again when the festive season has finally come to an end and the new year health resolutions have started to kick in. However, if, like us, you still want to dine out while looking for healthier choices, here’s a new menu in town you’ve got to try. The city’s beloved Asian cuisine restaurant, Auntie Fung’s, launched a menu a few months ago called Sushi Fiesta. This review comes after several visits to the restaurant, which have proven the consistency in the quality of the new dishes. Here’s how our first sampling had turned out.
The vegetarian options on the menu included the Avocado Mango Roll and Blue Rice Jalapeno Roll. We tried the latter, which was a uramaki-style roll stuffed with jalapeno chunks, cucumber, carrot and cream cheese. The tangy cream cheese, spicy jalapeno and slightly sweet blue rice complemented each other beautifully, creating a rather memorable first impression.
The chicken options included the Spicy Korean Gochujang Roll and Katsu Chicken Roll. We tried the Katsu Chicken Roll, another uramaki-style roll with crumb-fried chicken and cucumber, finished with Japanese mayo. The crunch of the fried chicken inside the sushi made it taste like the perfect marriage between guilty pleasure and comfort food.
The seafood options featured the Dynamite Prawn Roll, Fried Tuna Roll, Green Apple Tuna Roll and Spicy Crab Avocado Roll. We sampled the first one, which consisted of tempura-fried prawn and cucumber strips finished with in-house spicy dynamite sauce rolled into maki-style sushi. Again, the crispy tempura-fried prawns tasted refreshingly different, as we’re used to having lightly cooked meats inside sushi.
Although this was not on the new menu, we devoured a portion of Japanese Mitsu Ramen with chicken, which was wholesome. We finished off the meal with a scoop of their wasabi-flavoured ice cream, which was not meant for the faint-hearted!
All in all, the new menu is definitely worth indulging in. If you’re someone who wants to begin the journey into understanding and appreciating sushi, this menu can not only ease you in but also convert you into a loyalist.
Meal for two: INR 649 onwards. At New BEL Road.
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