Have you tried the Mongolian Lunch at Wildfire (Crowne Plaza Gurgaon) yet?

5 May 2010 420 views No Comment

A couple of weeks ago, in scorching heat (yeah, the days when we were hitting the highest temperature ever in April everyday), we (me and Kanchan) were on our way to a meeting in Manesar. Completely exhausted, we saw Crowne Plaza on our left when we thought that we might as well stop by for a drink or two before we resume the rest of our journey.

Entering the hotel lobby, we did something we do so often nowadays – check out the restaurants. What intrigued us was that Wildfire (the famed Brazilian barbeque restaurant) had a new lunch offering called the Mongolian lunch served in a “make your own main course” fashion which begged to be tried out. Being the perennially hungry souls that we are, we sat down.

The plan for the lunch was that the soup will be served on the table. FYI – they have a daily changing soup, so me telling you what to expect will not fly here. We had to go make our own salads – that day we got to choose from raw papaya salad, fried eggplant, assorted lettuce, roasted pineapple , roasted broccoli and carrot bean salad.

However, the main course is the most interesting part. What you have to do is – take a bowl, goto the live counter, put in all the ingredients that you want, choose the sauce and then ask the chef to cook it for you. This main course can be made by choosing ingredients from vegetables like edamame, bean sprouts, tofu, sugar snap peas, shitake mushroom, celery sticks, napa cabbage, tender stem broccoli, baby carrots, baby corns, baby zucchini, scallions, bok choy, spinach, cilantro assorted peppers, meats and seafood like stripped tenderloin, flank steak , spare ribs, sliced lamb, chicken wings, julienne spring chicken, duck breast, baby prawns, jumbo scallops, squid rings, pork shreds and eggs and condiments like roasted nuts, fried elephant garlic, ginger, toasted sesame, charred pineapple, chopped yellow onions, shredded lettuce / cabbage, spring onions, jalapenos and bird chilies. The list of sauces available include roasted peanut & chilli sauce, yellow curry sauce, teriyaki sauce, szechwan sauce, black pepper sauce, XO sauce, ponzu glaze, sweet basil & chilli pepper sauce, pineapple & lemon sauce, sweet garlic sauce, smoked ginger, black beans and scallion sauce which will bring in the characteristic flavors. All this, you can choose to get served with either udon noodles, egg noodles, soba noodles, white rice or wild rice. Now, don’t get too excited. Not all these ingredients are available every day, but they certainly have a lot of choice so that you can pretty much get anything you are craving for on that particular day.

By the way, I missed telling you that they also serve desserts as part of the lunch. We were served a bowl of fresh fruits with vanilla ice cream on top, so amazingly simple and wonderful – something I have been eating ever since as my dinner dessert at home now..