By far the best chinese restaurant in Bombay, The Golden Dragon at the Taj has the makings of a star restaurant- excellent food, reasonably good ambience, & extremely efficient staff. This is one restaurant where you will be assured consistency & quality.
Although people say its not authentic chinese cuisine, I say ’Thank God for that!’ I don’t think our Indian tastebuds could stomach the too bland authentic chinese food & the too spicy authentic schezwan food. Authentic chinese has two characteristics which we are not used too - Firstly, in the non - veg. the variety of meats are too gross (eg. snake, chicken feet, etc) & secondly the sauces & flavours have a predominantly fishy taste which can get too much even for sea food lovers.
Golden Dragon however, has achieved the perfect balance of combining chinese recepies with well accepted indian ingredients. Not only are the mouthwatering delicacies freshly cooked, the wines, cocktails & mocktails are always superb too. Although it is pricey it is definitely recommended for those who don’t mind splashing out for a good meal. I highly recommend almost the whole menu but some of the very good dishes are - peking duck, salt & pepper squid, prawns dry red chilly, burnt garlic tenderloin, butter chilly oyster chicken, stir fried harricot beans, whole pomfret steamed & served on a bed of chinese greens & for dessert the flambed mangoes, sweet darsan or the nutty honey ice cream(home made by the Taj). Hats off to the chefs especially Hemant Oberoi.