The new menu at Vintage Asia, JW Marriott Kolkata
Fresh flavours and comforting food in this brand new menu
22 Dec, 2019 by Madhushree Basu Roy
When it comes to Oriental food in Kolkata, Vintage Asia promises to give a dining experience which you will never forget. Come winter, this signature fine dining restaurant of JW Marriott Kolkata has come out with a brand new menu. Chef Alexsander Cheng, at the helm of affairs, has curated a flavoursome menu which will make you swoon. While the old favourites still stand strong and proud, here are our top five picks from the new menu.
Traditional Thai Pork Salad - This has chunky pieces of pork belly with a crispy skin tossed with shallots, coriander leaves and thin slices of cucumber with a hint of chilli. A simple sweet and sour dressing of soy, palm sugar, fish sauce and more, turns this into a sensational dish.
Wok Tossed Prawns with Singaporean Chilli Sauce - Singaporean Chilli Sauce, in any case, has a bundle of flavours - hot, sweet, sour, salty with the earthiness from ginger and garlic lending its spunk. When deep-fried prawns with crispy heads are laced in this power-packed sauce, it is bound to be a crowd-pleaser. This dish is bursting with intense flavours from the chillies used and alluring aromas and it's a must-try.
Stir-fried Rice with Thai Chilli Paste and Basil - If you thought the Wok Tossed Prawns with Singaporean Chilli Sauce was good, then this Stir-fried Rice with Thai Chilli Paste is definitely the superstar in the menu. The two ingredients -Thai chilli paste and basil, run and swirl together, amplifying each other's flavours. And to top that, the aromatic jasmine rice transforms this everyday fried rice into a work of art.
Braised Spinach and Minced Chicken Egg White Soup - Who talks about soups when there is a menu covered with beautiful dishes, but the soups of Vintage Asia always stand out. This soup, with a stock which has an incredible depth of flavour, has finely chopped spinach which gives a nice earthy tone along with the textural egg drops. It is a very well balanced, warm and hearty soup to begin your meal with.
Matcha and Pistachio Cremeux with Raspberry Sorbet - With a multitude of elements on a single plate, this dessert not only looks pretty but tastes great too. One might wonder if the flavours would all go together but it does work brilliantly. There is a very light and airy micro sponge with a sweet, smooth layered Matcha Cremeux. There are crunchy bits of browned pistachio biscuits, a small kiss of meringue and explosive raspberry sorbet with a tart to balance the dessert in its entirety.
A meal for two will cost approximately INR 3500 ++
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For someone who's run two restaurants, being a baker and cook par excellence comes easily to Madhushree . When she's not eating out, she's organizing her own pop ups or experimenting with regional recipes. Her experiments with food and her recipes are part of Pikturenama , where she's a co founder.
