Eating-Out
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 Chennai, a major metropolitan city in India, caters to different taste and popular cuisines served all over the world, find a place in our menu. Do you know that, apart from our usual local food, Chinese cuisine is the most popular and favorite food, preferred by our chennai people! It is a known fact that the Chinese are ardent food lovers and their cuisine is really unique, which makes their food so colorful and delectable. Stir-frying and steaming are the basic cooking methods in the Chinese cuisine along with deep-frying. Noodles and rice form the staple diet of the Chinese and their balancing of ingredients is what makes the Chinese dishes so delicious and also comforting. These days majority of the restaurants in chennai have diversified and offer Indianized Chinese dishes, apart from other Indian dishes. Chinese dishes altered with spices to suit our South-Indian palate, gave birth to Indian Chinese cuisine. Like our South-Indian cuisine, rice is the staple food for Chinese too and we are used to more spices than others, so our type of dishes vary. When people go to Chinese restaurants in chennai, they usually look out for spicy Chinese food. So, using the Chinese cooking techniques to the classic Chinese recipes, our Indian spices and seasonings are merged to suit the local tastes of chennai people. China in Chennai:
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Different types of sauces like the soy sauce, Manchurian sauce and Szechwan sauce play an important role in Chinese dishes. Even at homes, we stock these sauces to make our favorite Chinese dishes. Many Chinese dishes include tofu in one form or the other and there are variety of fried rice and noodles that give us plenty of choices to eat. Now there are many popular Chinese dishes that appeal to everybody including children. To top the list is the Chinese fried rice, which is now even served in every other local restaurant, but of course 
Eating out in chennai is a unique experience, with its large collection of food joints and restaurants. Though there are many restaurants in chennai that have a Chinese section in their menu card, there are some authentic hotels that are dedicated to serving only Chinese food. One such specialty restaurant is the Shanghai Club at Hotel Chola Sheraton that offers chennai people with some really authentic and delectable Chinese dishes, prepared by the best chef from china itself. That tells us why it is considered as one of the best Chinese restaurant in chennai. Though slightly expensive, it is certain to delight you beyond your expectations. Then we got Chin Chin at the Residency Hotel in T.Nagar, Golden Dragon at Taj Coromandel to serve our chennai people with quality Chinese dishes amidst an elegant ambience. The Canton Chinese restaurant at Nungambakkam is another finest Chinese restaurant that offers well many Cantonese specialties. Apart from this, other specialty restaurants are Shogun and Beijing Blues at Radhakrishnan Salai, Rangis and The Cascade at Nungambakkam. Wang’s kitchen and Noodle king have got several outlets in various parts of chennai to entice us with their authentic and aromatic vegetarian and non-vegetarian Chinese dishes. Since the Chinese food is hugely popular and in-demand always, in the recent past many restaurants offering Chinese dishes, have mushroomed in chennai. Our Indian Chinese dishes are readily available in a majority of hotels and even on roadside stalls. Now, this makes us to say that we can discover China right in every nook and corner of chennai.
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