A perfect date it was! Asian
food, romantic restaurant and my 4-month old fast asleep.
Tao Terraces would not have
happened, had it not been for a meal voucher we got for that place. Considering
my little one can’t be out all day, we do not travel far when we want to have a
good meal.
The craving for Asian food had
been there for very long but I had to avoid it to stay healthy for the baby.
This was like a major indulgence in many ways for me.
Tao Terraces is a great place for
a fine dining experience. With a water body right in the middle and several
Buddha statues adorning the walls, the place warms the heart. Their menu spans
across Chinese, Japanese and Thai cuisines. The place also offers a buffet
which we chose in order to make sure we tried a whole lot of stuff.
The buffet per say is not a
spread. Each dish is brought to you when you pick it from the menu. I missed
peeping through multiple dishes. With the little one sleeping on the couch
until mid-way through our main course, Vinod and I did manage to enjoy our food
and our time together.
So here’s what we sampled through
the afternoon. And yes the pics are bad! With diapers, water bottle, rattle,
change clothes, umbrella, hand towels, wallet and wet wipes, I totally forgot
to carry a camera. So we had to make do with a mobile camera in low light.
Soups : We tried both the Veg Tom
Yum and the Chicken Hot and Sour Soup. Both had sharp tastes but nothing out of
the ordinary. Vinod said they were both great for his stuffy nose on a rainy
afternoon.
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| Veg Tom Yum Soup |
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| Chicken Hot & Sour Soup |
Starters : On offer were three
veg and three non veg starters.
Chicken Dimsums which were like
comfort food for us were great with the honey chilli sauce. The diced chicken
with ginger and red chilli was superb with tender pieces of chicken well
marinated and cooked.
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| Chicken Dimsums |
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| Diced chicken
with ginger and red chilli (fish in the background) |
The wok tossed fish in fermented
black bean and peanut sauce was good but not better than the chicken.
And then we decided we wanted to
taste the veg spring rolls. I wonder why I did that. The after taste of flour
in the rolls remained until main course arrived.
For main course, there was the
quintessential Thai Red Curry and Green Curry. My meal was done with this. I
cleared went in for the buffet for these two items and I made sure I had my
fill.
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| Thai Green Curry |
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| Thai Red Curry |
The green curry is usually my favourite but somehow there the red curry
took over. It was creamier and perfectly spiced. My mouth is still watering as I
write about it. Loved it! I missed the plain rice here. We were served Szechwan
fried rice and Hakka noodles, both of which were good.
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| Szechwan
fried rice |
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| Vegetable Hakka Noodles |
Somewhere in between we had a mixed vegetable and tofu with bamboo shoots in a black bean sauce. Decent, but again not out of this world. Another dish worthy of mention is the Wok tossed fish in a Chinese Parsley sauce. This was mildly spiced and went well with both the rice and the noodles.
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| Mixed vegetables in black bean sauce |
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| Fish in Chinese Parsley Sauce |
The buffet also came
with a drink. I picked a Fresh Lime soda and Vinod picked a pint of beer.
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| Fresh Lime Soda |
For the dessert, we were served a
platter of fresh fruit, banana toffee, Darsan with vanilla ice cream. The
Darsan was good but the ice cream was sadly below average.
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| The desserts |
While this meal was not very
different from any of the regular Asian food joints, the ambience gives it
those extra points and for me it was clearly the red curry.
Will I go back there? May be, if someone
treats me again J
Pay by : Cash and cards
Average meal for two : Rs 1500
Mel’s overall rating : 2.5 out of
5
Location: 5th Floor, 1 MG Mall,
Mahatma Gandhi Rd, Halasuru, Bangalore, Karnataka 560008. Phone: 098 86 640445