CHEF PROFILE
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Agnès Peillet
Agnès Peillet
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TASTE OF CHINA HEAD CHEF
Geoffrey Donde
TASTE OF CHINA OWNER & CHEF
Arty Lakhani
We love it when a client walks in
and asks for something that’s not
on the menu.
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Lemon Prawns
order. According to him, this is part of
the challenge and of the fun.
“We work well together,” Lakhani
smiles. “We have the same passion
for food. We like to mess around
with ingredients and come up with
new dishes. If we are happy with it,
then we put it on the menu. We also
do specials.”
With their different culinary tastes,
Donde’s favourite dish is the fried
Tilapia in chilli garlic sauce and
Lakhani’s is the Lemon Prawns. The
two like to experiment and cook up
new dishes which Lakhani said she
sometimes tests on her 9 year old
son Krishna. “He’s got great taste”
Lakhani says adding, “he knows if
an ingredient is missing and will
tell me exactly what he likes and
doesn’t like. I know he will be a cook
someday”.
Taste of China’s Chef bring a new
twist to traditional Chinese cuisine.
While the ingredients used are the
same, Lakhani says the Taste of
China cuisine is spicier, incorporating chilli and ginger to accommodate
the restaurant’s eclectic clientele of
Indo-Chinese, Kenyan and Expats.
“We love it when a client walks in
and asks for somethng that’s not on
the menu. Then Goeffrey and I, we
get to play,” she says. “A ‘Well done
you guys!’ is what makes the long
hours and criticisms worth it.”
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