BENGALURU: My Fortune is hosting a seafood festival at its 24-hour cafe, My Cafe.The festival, called Fishing Floats, comprised pan Asian dishes that used fresh and seawater fish, squid and prawn as the heroes.
We started the meal with Chilli Fish Skewers, which had marinated chunks of fish, grilled and served with crispy glass noodles. The fish was cooked well, but some of the skewers were too salty, which wasn’t the best way to start the meal. This was followed by Crispy Szechaun Squid Rings - while the flavours were good, the squid was overcooked, making the rings quite chewy. We had the Wok Tossed Seafood next – a mixture of prawn, fish and squid in your typical Chinese-y flavours – and the squid was again overcooked and the dish didn’t really stand out.
After the rather disappointing starters, we were hoping that the main course would make up for the rest. In came clay pots of steaming Broccoli Red Snapper and Prawn Curry. The Broccoli Red Snapper was quite good, but nothing you wouldn’t find at your local Chinese take-out place. The Prawn Curry, which was a Thai yellow curry with aubergines and pineapple, was the winner of the meal for us, as the pineapple went very well with the lemongrass and coconut flavours. We were served egg fried rice and chicken noodles with these two gravies, which weren’t too impressive. In fact, the egg flavour was was a little too strong in the rice, and we found ourselves reaching for the plain, steamed rice instead.
While the chef informed us that there wouldn’t be special pan Asian desserts to end the meal as they didn’t want to shift focus from the seafood, we were served something of a dessert platter, which had fresh fruit, vanilla ice cream and a tiny piece of chocolate cake. Again, nothing stood out and the chocolate cake, if that’s what it was, was overly sweet and dry.
All in all, a disappointing meal. While the seafood was fresh, the Chindian-ness of the entire meal was what left us unimpressed. The festival is on till August 13.
Cost for two: `2,400