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Tom Yum cocktail with udon? OKO’s Oriental Express lunch menu derails

If your ‘Pan-Asian’ ambitions begin and end with dumplings and Thai green curry, perhaps it is better you don’t overpromise and then underdeliver.

What happens when you take three cuisines and try to create a forced concept to sell them all on one menu? You get an ‘identity crisis’. That is precisely how I would sum up ‘Oriental Express’, the new gimmick at OKO, the Pan-Asian restaurant at The LaLiT New Delhi.

Oriental Express is the restaurant’s new lunch menu, aimed at business diners and food enthusiasts seeking a premium yet time-efficient meal. Available daily from noon to 3 pm since 1 July, it promises a curated Pan-Asian journey through vegetarian and non-vegetarian dishes inspired by Japan, Thailand, and China. Or so it claims. 

In my humble opinion, Oriental Express is a perfect example of why some ideas and concepts should be dismissed........

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