‘Ano Tai’ is the only restaurant in Vasant Vihar vicinity that serves authentic Chinese food as well as South East Asian dishes. Housed at posh Jaypee Vasant Continental Hotel, New Delhi, Ano Tai takes pride in preparing mind blowing Chinese fare. If the busy tables are any indication then the chefs must be doing a very good job in culinary department. You will find Korean, Taiwanese and Chinese expacts working in the area as their regular clientele. The food is loved by the customers enhanced by the classy surroundings. The wooden finish design seems to attract the punters who come expecting a high class environment in this opulent hotel. Families and couples visit Ano Tai at special occasions. Need you be in requirement of privacy ask to seated at the semi-private tables. A singer in the evening entertains the guests with her beautiful voice that seems to compliment the ambience.
Ano Tai is in fortunate state of employing fabulous chefs who cook traditional Chinese food as well as Punjabi-Chinese fare. This dual menu policy is loved by the punters who can ask to be served as per their taste. The restaurant has stolen a chef from Yauatcha who excel in preparing dim sums. Defiantly try them out. The chef prepares superb Hunan and Sichuan cuisines so give them a shot. Let’s start with dim sums. Barbecue pork buns, vegetable crystal dumplings, pumpkin & pine nut, shanghai lamb goutie and fish & crab meat dumplings are some of the delicious fillings. Hot pot with several accompaniments like crab meat, shrimp dumplings, tofu, scallops, sliced chicken/lamb/tenderloin, pork dumplings make a great way to bond with your companions. Appetizers like lamb & coriander salad, crispy vegetables pepper & salt, pork spare ribs, tea flavoured fish fingers, sour & spicy squid salad, baby corn sweet chilli, butter garlic flavoured prawns and Sichuan flavoured stir fried squid.
Mains like stirfried lobster with asparagus, scallops with XO sauce, stir fried lobster with black pepper, twice cooked pork, crispy honey chicken, clay pot cooked diced pork, cumin flavoured sliced lamb, stir fried sliced duck hunan style and braised eggplant with soya sauce, can be combined beautifully with fried noodles and fried rice. Ano Tai has a great dessert section which consists, steamed custard bao, darsaan, pan fried sesame & nut rice cake, sweet potato dumplings with sesame, toffee banana or apple etc. Dining experience may leave you with an expensive bill but Ano Tai is worth every cent.
- Go at lunch. The restaurant is a great favourite with Koreans, Taiwanese and overseas Chinese who work in the offices nearby and the staff are geared towards serving authentic Chinese food
- They've stolen a chef from Yauatcha, so the dim sum can be excellent
- There’s a singer in the evening. She’s very good but if you want a quiet meal ask for a table away from the music