Ling’s Pavilion
Behind Regal Cinema, Colaba, Mumbai
Tel: 22850024
Meal for two: Rs. 1,200
Not as fancy as some of Mumbai’s other Chinese joints, but it’s a place that many serious foodies swear by.
Ling’s Pavilion
Behind Regal Cinema, Colaba, Mumbai
Tel: 22850024
Meal for two: Rs. 1,200
Ling’s isn’t as fancy as some of Mumbai’s other Chinese joints, but it’s a place that many serious foodies swear by. The food is uniformly excellent, but we’d particularly recommend their wonderful crispy sesame spinach, steamed fish and Mongolian chicken. There used to be a legendary chimney soup that Baba Ling used to make in the old days, simmered overnight inside a scooped-out melon shell but that, alas, is no longer available. The service is also excellent—which brings us back to Meng’s journals, which note that customers at Kaifeng’s 12th century eating houses demanded attentive service and that “even the smallest mistake was reported to the proprietor, who would curse the staff, beat them or even throw them out on to the street”. Which, happily, is something that’s unlikely to happen at Ling’s.