Taj Mahal Palace in Mumbai Reopens Three Restaurants
The Taj Mahal Palace and Tower in Mumbai continues to recovery from the Mumbai terrorist attacks in 2008. Three of the five star luxury hotel's restaurants reopened at the end of last month. They include the Wasabi by Morimoto, Harbour Bar and the Golden Dragon.
The Wasabi restaurant offers authentic Japanese cuisine. The old menu has been retained and 14 new dishes have been added, including new kinds of sushi, salads, cold dishes and an authentic Japanese Curry. The restaurant has also introduced 12 new varieties of Japanese rice wine.
The new menu at the Golden Dragon includes 20 different kinds of Dimsums.
The Dimsum with Caviar, will entice even the most reluctant palate, while the Dimsum with soup, can actually be drunk with a straw first! The Peking duck gently cooking in the open kitchen oven will tempt the guest with its aromas. Six grain noodles, cumin lamb, steamed sea bass in chilly mustard sauce are some of the other additions to the menu.
A true Sichuan meal is always accompanied with tea that is perfectly paired with the foods. The Golden Dragon offers around 8 different varieties of the teas in the menu. To make the meal truly exclusive the Golden Dragon will serves its meals in Narumi crockery, with gold brush strokes and will encourage guests to use delicate ivory and wooden chopsticks with hints of embedded oyster shell.
A photograph of the Wasabi restaurant is pictured above and a photo of a table at the Golden Dragon restaurant is pictured below. It is good to see the restaurants are back up and running following the 2008 attacks.
Katy Perry posted this photo on her Twitter account. It shows her and boyfriend Russell Brand in front of the Taj Mahal in Agra, India. Katy joked "He built this for me... " The Taj Mahal was built by Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan in 1631 in memory of his beloved wife, Mumtaz Mahal. The structure, a symbol of the Emperor's undying love, is made of white marble. You can see a larger version of the photograph here.
Some major cracks are now visible on the walls of the Taj Mahal, a historic 360-year-old monoment in India. Reuters reports that the cracks are bad enough that they are raising serious concerns over the structural safety. The source of the cracks is a drought that is keeping water from reaching the structure causing the foundation to dry out. Archeaologists are also concerned about iron clamps that have become rusted over the years.
