The yellow coloured exteriors and the unusual entrance to the stairs are inviting and the bright coloured walls with Chinese graphics come as a surprise. Awestruck by the uplifting Chinese colours like imperial yellows, celadon green, ivory and distressed wood on the paintings, me and my friend find ourselves a seat right across a red coloured painting that has a Chinese girl with chopsticks in hands.
Impressed by the interior, we browsed through the menu and noticed that it has been done in colourful pages with the references of a dish being veg, spicy and classics is done in creative signs mentioned in front of each item.
As we learn the meaning of Mamagoto, is ‘to play with food’ we hear a voice, “Hi I am Kabir Suri business partner and friend of Rahul Khanna. Introducing us to the concept he says, “It’s basically a Japanese social experiment of sort, involving infants to use their senses and understand the textures and shapes of the food. Borne out of this idea came our concept — to make Asian eating fun. To create an affordable and casual eating atmosphere with authentic food and drinks combined with quirky décor is what makes it different from the bunch of restaurants in Khan market. “It’s not only the décor that’s unusual but the food is also quite experimental. We have played with food and created interesting items,” boasts Suri and shows us the signature dishes.
Agreeing, we ordered coal fried eggplant, vegetable tempura and rock shrimps tempura with signature chilli mayo,which were simply delightlful as it comes to lite bites. Having kind of pigged with starters we tried to be judicious with mains – steering clear of all the temptations and ordered tofu with sticky rice and Prawns with Teriyaki noodles.
While we have our portions, we realise that we had too much of it but unable to curb our sweet cravings we dig into the Chocolate Mousse Cake.
Finishing it off I thought Mamagoto is the find of the season!
