Delicacies range from Vietnamese dimsum and Chinese green spring rolls to Nasi Goreng rice. In addition, there are other exotic dishes like Adobo chicken, Gong bao fish, and even mapu tofu. East Asian Food Festival at Aura, The Sonnet Kolkata brings stretchy-pants-worthy luscious menu that will satisfy your taste-buds, and ensure your satisfaction with even more exotic oriental flavours.
Green Chinese Roll
First you try the humble Deep Fried Green Chinese Roll — savoury cubes of silky yet crisp spicy vegetables deep fried till perfection.
Sticky Oyster Chicken
Warm up tummies with the Sticky Oyster Chicken with delicious crisp, soft and moist chicken and contrasting thick Oyster sauce — it is impossibly comforting.
Asian Chicken Flower Dumpling
Order their signature Asian Chicken Flower Dumpling — melt-in-the-mouth mince chicken slicked in a rich, umami-laden spices and wrapped in fluffy steamed rice flour coating that is present on almost every table.
Vietnamese Dim Sum (Chicken)
No East Asian meal is complete without dim sum, so get the Vietnamese Dim Sum (Chicken), which comes with sweet and sour soy sauce dips.
Japanese Prawn Tempura
The aromatic, crisp-coated, succulent prawns is deep fried extremely skillfully and if you doused with a umami-rich dipping sauce that you’d want to sparkling all over your mouth when you chew.
Chicken in Thai Basil Curry
The Diced Chicken in Thai Basil Curry is proof that Asian curries are a forte here — the mild flavour, clean-tasting and not overly herbaceous as some Chinese curries can be.
Crispy China
For dessert, get the Deep Fried Crispy China that is both delightfully sticky as it is crispy.
With the growing appreciation of East Asian dishes, some predict the authentic-flavored noodle dishes will replace mac and cheese as the new comfort food and pho will replace kfc as a cure-all. Curated by Executive Chef Vikram Jaiswal, the East Asian Food Festival at Aura, The Sonnet Kolkata offers both lesser known and popular dishes from the East Asian countries, flavoured with all the authentic spices from the cuisine including galangal, kaffir lime leaves, young pepper, krachai and fresh turmeric.
