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Chinese Mirch
120 Lexington Ave., New York, NY, 10016
at 28th St.
212-532-3663
| 4.7 | "Mixed Reviews" Average Reader Rating on a Scale of 10 |  |
terrible unethical service
veanix from 10003 | Posted on 5/18/09
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I have never complained about a restaurant in a public forum, but I feel that the service i received at Chinese Mirch was so offensive that it should be made known. During our dinner, icy cold water from the overhead AC rained on me. I alerted the waiter, who did nothing to help even though I was left standing, dripping wet, in the middle of the restaurant. After 10-15 minutes of this awkwardness, we got fed up waiting and requested for the bill and a doggy bag for our remaining food. Our dinner experience thus ruined, the manager did not even have the courtesy to take anything off our bill and only cut out the $5 rice after we insisted. This doesn't even qualify for poor, inattentive service -- unethical, cheapskating customers would be more appropriate.
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Shocks the taste buds, completely different than Chinese or Indian
jaimel from 10013 | Posted on 4/27/07
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I loved this place when I ate there. I'm a white guy who eats Indian, Chinese, and Thai all the time. This place combined them into something totally different. I am even starting to get bored with Indian food it's all the same everywhere you go. The food all had kick to them. I haven't been so excited at something new in a long time. I love Village Mingala too but even that food has similarities to thai curries. The appetizers were excellent, I highly recommend getting them all, they were the highlight of the meal. It's extremely popular=crowded so make reservations. They say on their menu that every five star hotel in India has a Chinese restaurant. When I went to India it's true. They love Chinese food there and they put their own twist and ingredients in it so this restaurant's concept is not some new fangled, unpractised idea. These were the best things and they were each amazing: mirch 65, gobi manchurian, spicy sesame chicken, chili paneer, crispy szechuan lamb
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Fusion?
Gustav_Siebenberger from 10016 | Posted on 3/28/07
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The term fusion implies some mastery, at least in philosophy of the "fusing" culinary elements. In this establishment, we see Chinese cooks under an Indian staff. The food is VERY ordinary, with no intellectual effort in stimulating your tastes, lamb is shredded beyond recognition, spices are apparently a subject of discord in the kitchen, so, you have no sense of well-cured/cooked Indian dishes as opposed to over-and omni-present Chinese peppers. Waiting staff are inexplicably rigid, arrogant and hasty. Surroundings are new but ready to succumb to fast-food squalor in a few months, if not in weeks. We, luckily, have plenty of alternatives.
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