in Mandarin ‘haochi’ means ‘good taste’ or more simply, ‘delicious’. In Mumbai, Haochi is also the name of the latest Chinese restaurant to open its doors.

In a city where the popular ‘Chinese’ restaurants pass off Indian Chinese cuisine as authentic fare, Haochi appears to be making a rather daring statement with its menu that has influences from Hunan, Beijing, Canton and Sichuan — the food here is simple and unadulterated with paneer or ‘manchurian’.
Housed in Sun-n-Sand Hotel in Juhu, Haochi gets the ambience right through the oriental lotus designs on the restaurant’s walls and German-imported apple wood chopsticks placed delicately on the custom-made cutlery. Sun-n-Sand group of hotels corporate chef Gautam Mehrishi tells us that the kitchen of Haochi is run by masterchefs and dimsum experts from Beijing.