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A 12 seat express location with take out and delivery open on the upper east side. Hours-11:30am-3:00pm, 5:30pm-10pm. Mondays Closed.
28th St-Park Ave S (6)
28th St-Broadway (R, W)
"Almost as good as Saravana Bhavan in madras (Chennai), India. The service and the food presentation are the same as the original ones in…" read more »
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I hated fusion food throughout Mumbai, and yet this place blew me away. They use good quality ingredients and a good amount of spice, and they had more variety than your standard gobi manchurian joint. I recommend the Mirch 65, the Szechuan Prawns, and the Szechuan Fried Rice. They also had a spectacular hot and sour soup that was a good amount of both ^_^.
They're good enough to make the stairs worth it for this wheelchair user!
Mirch means chili. And at Chinese Mirch, you get a lot of chili.
So much chili that people who think that because they are brown and thus must be able to take the heat end up getting schooled.
The Schezuan Lamb was not only spicy, but so damn flavorful! As were the Mirch 45 apps (chicken in this chili sauce). The Kung Pao chicken = fire in chicken form.
Why does it still have 4 stars? Well, because this place is true to its word. When an item says it's going to be spicy, it's not white-people spicy, it's brown-people spicy. Does this mean that I'm not really brown?* Probably.
The service is also top notch, the atmosphere is clean and comfortable and evocative of the cuisine. My friend also found out that it was Halal, which is great if you need to have your meat blessed by a priest. (OK, that sounds off...)
In any case, I'm a fan.
*Yes, I needed pepto the next day. But it was so worth it.
Shhh...don't call this "fusion." That's a dirty word!
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I expended all my creative wit for that tagline.
But seriously, I've been here multiple times with my veg friends, and have never had a bad meal here. I mean it's an UMAMI explosion!
Sample of dishes we recently got...
Gobi cauliflower
Manchurian spice vegetable balls
crispy okra
The most important thing is that it's been around since my friend used to live in the neighborhood (five years and counting) - and apparently are successful enough that they keep upgrading the decor!
Bon appetit!
Very unique - indian version of chinese food...amazing! try the chili chicken and crispy okra.
One of the best indo-chinese fusion restaurants i have visited. I came here for dinner with an acquaintance of mine as it had come highly recommended by a friend. I am glad we came in early at 7 pm as there was a huge line waiting to get seated shortly afterwards.
We started off with the Lychee Martini for which i don't have too many words to describe. Just one, perhaps. OUTSTANDING . Do not miss having this delivious drink whenever you visit this place
The chicken lollipop as an appetizer was definitely a winner. For the main course we had the lamb manchurian along with a dish of Hakka Noodles. The Lamb was a bit spicy but the spice got negated by the noodles.
We ended this fabulous meal with a warm chocolate cake served with ice cream. What a finish to the already superb dinner.
I might go to this place again not only to have the lychee Martini but to try their other dishes as well.
I decided to try Chinese Mirch because there seemed to be an ongoing hype about this "Chinese-Indian" fusion place.
My friend and I shared the Manchurian Lamb and the Chili Chicken. The gravies for both dishes were very tasty, but unfortunately, i felt that most of the flavors were masked by the overwhelming spiciness.
The dishes we had were ** (double stars), i cannot imagine how much spicier the *** (triple star) dishes would have been.
i feel like i have quite a good tolerance for spicy food...but i think this place is best suited if you're a "i want my mouth on fire" junkie.
But if not, it's safer to go with the one star dishes- i'm sure that those would be delicious.
Liked everything I tried (the sesame chicken, momos, chow mein & paneer).
Yum. Spicy and tasty. Love the panir dishes, the manchurian, and all that stuff. Yum again.
***** 5 STARS *****
Awesome place. Warning, don't get 3star spicy if you can't handle spicy! We stuck to twostar spicy.
The cauliflower appetizer was yummy. We ordered the basil chicken and the chef's special (chicken w/ mushroom). Another warning, do not eat anything green even if it looks cute. I ate a pepper because it was cute and looked like a little catepillar and I SO REGRET IT. My mouth was freaking on fire for the rest of the meal. 3 Listerine strips and 2 full glasses of water barely did anything.
The rice (sans spicy) was tasty, and the chef's special was amazing! I'd definitely go with the waiter's reccos if you don't know what to order. It was my first time going to a Chinese-Indo joint, so I was finally glad I was able to. They use so many herbs and spices, the aromas are amazing.
I will definitely come back here again to get my Chindo fix!
I just had lunch here today with a friend. I got there before her so they let me sit and i ordered a drink. I had the lychee martini (it's not called that on the menu, but that's what it basically was). It was good and not too strong, maybe if it was dinner i would have wanted it to be stronger, but it was lunch and i had to head back to work afterward.
We were ordering and the menu has stars next to the dishes indicating their spiciness. * is mild, **hot, and ***very hot. We ordered two dishes that were *** and the waitress said we should order something else b/c it would be too spicy for us. i got a little nervous and only ordered one dish that was ***, the chili noodles. it was spicy but not unbearable. We also got the Gobi Manchurian (fried cauliflower). it was only ** and not really spicy, but it was a little too salty.
Overall, it was good. i will go back to try other items on the menu.
This place smells SO good. We went here last night for a friend's birthday, and the general consensus was that everything was pretty tasty. One word of advice: They apparently don't accept reservations between 7:00 and 9:30, so be prepared for a bit of a wait.
We shared the crispy okra (which was presented in a french fry cone, much to my amusement) and the gobi manchurian (which may have been the best cauliflower to EVER exist). I had the coriander vegetables with tofu, which was smothered in this lemony spinach-cilantro pesto. Everyone wanted to share my sauce because it was THAT good. (My meal also gains points because the tofu wasn't fried -- frying tofu is a lazy way of preparing it.) I was so involved in my meal that I don't recall what everyone else was eating -- I know that the boyfriend had chicken, the birthday boy and another guy had paneer, and the final guy had lamb, and that these dishes were in varying degrees of spiciness.
The restaurant gets points for their spiciness rating system -- they award one, two, or three stars to a dish depending on its spiciness. This is really handy because far too many places denote anything that has any sort of kick to it as "spicy," which is incredibly disappointing if your meal turns out to be only mildly spicy. I suppose it might also be disappointing if your meal turns out too spicy for you, but I think in that situation your larger problem is that you are looking for a non-spicy meal. In either event, the spiciness rating will help.
Also, a shout-out to the host: I had arrived before my dining companions and wandered in, looked around for them, and then decided to wait for them on the street. (It was a little snug in there, so I felt kind of conspicuous just standing there.) While we assembled on the sidewalk, the host popped out and asked for our name and group number in order to put us on the list so we didn't lose a spot while milling around outside.
Came here w/ shantala tonight and man, we were so disappointed. We both love spicy food and after reading reviews we got excited. Shantala chose this place bc she read they had gobi Manchurian so she wanted to try them bc she loves the vegetable Manchurian at Nanking.
We ordered:
gobi Manchurian - we both did not like this dish. Shantala said the one at Nanking is kind of the same but sits in chili oil
crispy okra - pretty good, actually the best thing we had there
chili chicken - we shared this. Wt is the hotness that everyone was raving about? This was not spicy at all, in fact, it was gross. It just tasted like some old gravy, even the chili oil they had on the side didn't make it better
egg fried rice - blah, boring, too many scallions
* sigh * and we were so looking fwd to having our mouths on fire, o well
Solid, though it's more a mix of Indian dishes and Chinese dishes than a true fusion of the two. The mirch 65 appetizer is awesome, and the chili chicken is a good main. I tried to one of the few "fusion" dishes on the menu, paneer in a chili gravy, but while spicy, it still felt like it was missing something -- not quite balanced. For the area, I'd recommend this spot as a bit different than the other Curry Hill options. Very reasonably priced (~$30 per person when we went) and several excellent dishes.
I have been here a few times and have never been disappointed. The service is very fast and friendly. I've had the fried okra, corn soup and lollipop chicken which were all good. The manchurian vegetable ball is really spicy and tasty if you can handle that much spice. The chili basil fish excellent. They give a huge portion of fish. I would say that all the portions are big enough for sharing if you order rice to go with your entree. My favorite thing to order is the cilantro pesto with tofu. The flavor is amazing and I haven't tasted anything like it elsewhere.
Food is good, but overpriced IMO. This was interesting when it first opened, but think the Chinese-Indian thing is overdone now.
And all three times I've been here, the service is horrible. Re the automatic addition of 18% tip even for parties of 4 - wtf!?
Overrated, oversalted and overpriced!!
Started with the Sweet Corn soup and spicy coriander soup. They were decent but too salty. Had the chef's special - Salt & Pepper Shrimp as the appetizer. It was very mediocre. Then had the fried rice and Manchurian chicken as the entree. The fried rice was about the only decent part of the meal. The chicken was really dark pieces of meat and very tough and tasteless. Poor quality and bad food. And, after you come out of the restaurant, your clothes and hair smell of Chinese food. Yuk!
Bill was over $70 for the two of us (without alcohol). A total ripoff!! Save yourself the trouble.
Giving this place is big Meh. 2.5 I guess.
I have never had indo-chinese food. But, I have to say that in general, I liked the flavors. They were interesting. Like Chinese, but with Indian touches. How insightful of me! No, but really, the flavors were suprisingly good, b/c when my friend said she was forcing me to go here, I was kind of disgusted when I heard the kind of cuisine. It just doesn't seem right...a marriage of Indian and Chinese. Who would have though it's actually good?
And it was OK. As I said, interesting flavors, but this place lacks in execution. I would love to go somewhere else to try this kind of cuisine. We shared the rock shrimp, the Manucherian (I think?) lamb and some spicy noodle thing whose name I don't recall. Everything seemed kind of old-ish, like it had been prepared a while ago.
My waitress was a hot (I think Thai) chick who was bitchy. So she gets a meh. 2.5 but only for being pretty.
Structure itself is OK. Not a place I would like to go for a date but good for a cheap dinner out.
I love a new restaurant especially one that is not only newly open, but experimenting with new culinary ideas...
The sign outside says $8.50 for lunch special, mmm sounds good. And the description is "asian bistro with an indian twist". Well those are two of my favorites, so here goes!
The place is really nice, in the middle of little india, curry row at 28th street. The upstairs dining room is open, and only a few tables are taken. So pretty sparse.
I ordered the spicy garlic eggplant. It came with basmati rice, and was an interesting twist I have to say. It's more chinese than indian, though the staff are all indian. But did have a scent of indian cooking to it, though I can't put my finger on how. Also I knew I'd be getting vegetarian, not the chinese interpretation of that, with pork broth or chunks of port "just for flavoring".
All in all it was a delicious lunch, and worth every penny. I'd recommend this place if you're in the neighborhood.
So, to be fair---you can't expect a girl who has spent a lot of time in Calcutta's Chinatown to be impressed. Chinese Indian food is my ultimate favorite cuisine and my mom's friend makes a chili chicken that is out of this world.
To me, Chinese Mirch: eh whatever. Nothing impressed me and I don't think even on a basic level the cooking is very good.
BUT WITH THAT SAID: My fiance, who has never been to India or tasted my mom's friend's cooking, loves China Mirch and apparently goes there a lot. Also, a lot of my Indian friends, love it. So I dunno what you will think.
I really like this place.. maybe because the food is spicy. I've eaten food from here twice and I really like the chicken and veggie coriander. The pineapple chicken is a good but a little sweet for my taste. The chilli paneer is good too. Veggie ball Manchurian you would have never guessed it was meatless. Hakka noodles and fried rice were good too.
From reading other reviews, it sounds like Chinese and Indian fusion is more common in NYC than I thought. However, it's still new to me, and this place does a decent enough job. I will always remember the black pepper steak as one of the spiciest dishes I've ever had (and I'm no stranger to heat).
The service was indeed slow, so don't go if you're in a rush. I have a feeling that I have not yet stumbled across what my would be my favorite dish on the menu. The restaurant is too good of a concept not to have something for everyone. So even though my two experiences weren't spectacular, I'm sure I'll be back to try it one more time.
Our friends love this place so we were really surprised that the food is actually not that good and the service is terribly slow.
We went with two other people (four total) on a Tuesday night. We had a reservation and were seated promptly at a table near the window towards the front of the restaurant on the second floor. This table was right above the door and we were FREEZING the whole time. As other people said, the service was truly slow. We ordered a cheap ($20) bottle of Torrontes (it's like Malbec in that it's always good), except this one! I've never had a bad Torrontes until we came here...
We had the Chicken Lollipops which ARE good, but mostly because they are lollipops, which I always find cute.
The rest of our dishes can be summed up this way: HOT AS F*CK. Granted, I think all of our dishes had three "spicy" stars, but I've never had spicier food and normally I LOVE spicy food. I have no idea what anything tasted like (we had a shrimp dish and maybe a couple of lamb dishes) because of the heat.
And oh yes, this place is a Chinese restaurant that uses Indian curry in some dishes.
TOPS: the atmosphere is OK, they have cheap wine, the menu is unusual
WATCHOUT: for the melt your mouth spicy nightmare that describes many dishes, the waiters standing around chit-chatting, and the strange popularity preventing prompt reservation-free seating (who'd want a table here anyway though, we ask)
I have been to Chinese Mirch about 4 times and it's always been great. The food is excellent reminding me of the Chinese food I had in India. My boyfriend can attest that this place is as good as it gets here in the states and it reminds him of the Chinese food he eats in Kolkata.
This time around we were entertaining out of town guests and ordered 4 dishes, appetizer and two desserts. Chicken lollipop has a tangy spicy kick to it. Fried and so delicious. We ordered the chicken manchurian which was spicy and good. We also had the chili paneer. I find the food that has gravy to be best. I prefer gravy over dry food. The chili garlic noodles with chicken and chicken fried rice were also good. The carb dishes tend to be very filling as the portions are greater. After having a savory, spicy meal I was happy to have something sweet. I love the rasmalai and the bengal lychees were also refreshing. I highly recommend Chinese Mirch. I would also like to check out some other Chinese-Indian places in the area to see if Chinese Mirch is the best.
If you experiment, know that you are experimenting. This place is for those who already either KNOW the taste of Indian- Chinese and those who are willing to experiment. Must try Mirch 65 appetiser. Sooo delicious. Great food, great ambiance and totally affordable.
I first came to know of this place through a great Indian friend of mine. I thought how unusual Indian fused with Chinese? I thought hmmm curry chicken broccoli or tandoori wontons??? I was definitely skeptical but intrigued....here's the round-up of the best.
The chicken mirch 50, shrimp noodles, fried okra, salt and pepper shrimp (to die for)...all these dishes are great for sharing.
The dessert to order is the coconut ice cream with raspberry sauce. I don't know whether it's homemade and someone's curdling it in the back but it is the creamiest richest ice cream ever!!!
Seems to be Chinese food with basmati rice in place of sticky rice.
There are always lines outside with hip young sometimes attractive Indians out on the town. I went at lunch hoping they would have good specials but it was no bargain really.
Tasted good, but I think the trick is to put effort into the dishes which you're more unlikely to find at a Chinese place. Otherwise, you know, you like, probably should be at a Chinese place.
If you love Indian food and you love Chinese food and you like it spicy...Then come here!
Its a hole in the wall but the food=delectable. Soup is fresh and made to order. All of the dishes are family style....THESE PEOPLE NEED TO BE IN SOUTH FLORIDA...I would make a trip to NY just to eat here...needless to say, go here and you'll be quite satisfied...
5 stars for the food, minus two for the hands-off service and the poor acoustics in the place.
We were seated 2 tables away from a very, very giggly party and a man at the table that would not stop making jokes ('twas annoying). It also took about 10 minutes before our waiter even came by to take drink orders and give us water. Then it took quite some time to place a food order, but once the order was made the food came out very quickly.
OHMIGOD though....the food. Oh the food. The Crispy Szechuan Lamb was the best lamb dish I've ever had in my life. I had to suppress the urge to lick my plate.
Take out next time.
Oh...Chinese Mirch, here I sit in Boston and long for you.
Surrounded as I am by mediocre Indian cuisine, I drool when I think of you.
Your chicken manchurian, wah -wah
Your fried rice, mashallah
And when I think of the lollypop,
I feel I could cry.....
It's been nearly a year since we last met and how, oh how, do I ache for you.
(Apologies to everyone, it's one of those starved-of-Indian-Chinese days)
I sought this place out after reading about it in Time Out NY's Eating and Drinking issue. And I was not disappointed! The Szechuan lamb was incredibly tasty and very spicy. It's fried to a light crispy finish and covered in some kind of garlic sauce and served with rice.
I was there for a late lunch on a weekday and the service was very friendly and prompt. I believe the entree was $12 and was slightly more than I could finish.
It's been two weeks since my visit and I'm craving it daily now. Must return soon!
Good food. Great for my strictly halal friends. The service can be a little better. They are very strict on where their customers sit, even during times when the restaurant is mostly empty.
Food was decent, service good. They take reservations only until 7:30pm. We had a group of 6 and it was comfy :)
what sucked - is that i hate hot and spicy and everything is hot and spicy! i ate a pepper then drank 3 glasses of water but still felt like i died a slow death........
what i enjoyed the most -- noodle dishes and appetizers...... and will return for those...
another plus is that its super easy to find right off the 6
We were a group of three, and we ordered the Chicken Lollipop and Crispy Okra appetizers. They were both good. We also ordered Chinese Greens and Chinese Mirch Potatoes, both of which were also good. We shared two entrees, the Tellicherry Pepper Chicken and the Grand Marnier Prawns. The chicken was good, although the only spice was black peppercorns. The prawns were not to my taste. The sauce was kind of mayonnaisey and reminded me of a Waldorf salad. Ew.
Overall, the food was good, though, and I give it 3 1/2 stars. I have to select 3 or 4 stars for a Yelp review, though, and I'm selecting 3 stars because of a moment when our waiter tried to pull our bottle of wine from my hands as I was pouring from it. There's a fine line between being helpful and wrestling with the customers. This crossed it.
I'm truly bi-coastal now, and life requires some changes... and that will include some review writing. 8-9 months in NY and the balance in SF; I have to find a good selection of NY restaurants and recommend them to my SF homies.
Chinese Mirch is my favorite restaurant in NY right now. Yes, it's chinese food, but the kind of chinese food anyone has EVER tasted. Unless of course you have lived/visited India. This chinese cuisine is using the same raw materials like noodles, rice, vegetables, soy sauce, etc but all the spices are Indian. Noodles with curry sauce, fried rice with turmeric, chili chicken with basil -- you cannot go wrong with anything in the menu.. anything, trust me. I'm a picky eater and I highly recommend this place if you like to spice up your culinary delights. And outside of India (maybe London) -- New York is the only place to find this particular type of food.
update 05/19
- went here last night and the 1. service was horrible 2. they gave us the wrong fried rice and 3. food was bad.
i'm taking off 2 stars and going to Indomunch 2 blocks up the street
I had the spicy leamon coriander soup for appetizer with the gobi manchurian. Wow! loved it so much that we ordered a 2nd round of gobi manchurian. It was just awesome and we were so full that we skipped dinner ;)
The 2nd time i went to this restaurant I tried crispy okra for appetizers and it was pretty nice. For the main course chilli paneer, veg ball machurian and the hakka noodles were all really really tasty.
its a nice place with a nice ambiance. I've been seated both down and on the 2nd floor and is equally nice both places. the waiters are good and the food does not take that long to arrive.
I had never been to an Indo-Chinese place before and went because a couple of my good friends thought I might like it. The fried okra appetizer was delicious, my best friend and I scarfed it down like there was no tomorrow.
The dinner itself was good too, the chili paneer was very good and we got it with a noodle dish that we are together... I can easily see Indo-Chinese food continuing to gain popularity in the US.
OK, this is better than most any authentic Chinese restaurant.
Better quality ingredients. Chicken Fried Rice, for example.
Best to go in a sizable group and share everything.
My preferred appetizers: Cauliflower manchurian, fried okra, chicken lollipop.
My preferred entrees: chilli chicken dry, salt n pepper shrimp, fried rice.
Beware, it can be seriously spicy. The grease factor is pretty well-balanced, not too much of it.
Most of the tables are upstairs, room has a pleasant ambience, not formal at all. Semi-cheesy Buddha decor.
I, the pasty Jewish guy, had the somewhat unique experience of being a racial minority here where on a Friday night everyone is from the subcontinent. I love being among natives of a particular cuisine, as it generally means the food is authentic and probably very good. Arguably, Chinese/Indian fusion cuisine would have a tough time being "authentic," but regardless the food here is damned good.
We had the schezuan prawns and garlic noodles and asked for them to be prepared super hot. They actually did that for us, so the meal was sweat-inducing but not to the point of severe pain, which was great. The hot and sour soup is the best I've had in a really long time. I should probably add, given reviews of greasiness here, that I had no problem with that, but my friend specifically asked that they go low on the grease, so that did it.
The service is generally OK. The glass of merlot I had was really sticky sweet and not very memorable (nor a good pair for the food). Beer is probably a better option anyway. I had that, too.
One annoyance: no matter how much food one has left, the restaurant will squash it into a tiny cardboard container, and they are doubtless tossing some of it, too. It's my food, darnit! Also, they place the cardboard container in a thin white plastic bag. Would it be too much to ask for paper? Really cheap.
Otherwise, very reasonably priced. Excellent food. Good place for a date.
Decent place if you are truly craving some indo-chinese food. The American Chopsuey had too much tomato ketchup. The manchurian gobi appetizer was good. I heard good reviews of the chilli chicken. Good ambience, friendly service.
not much to say. some interesting menu items. foods was good. seemed fresh. but i might opt for the local chinese rest. as opposed to this one as it seemed more expensive. half the reason i eat chinese is so i can spend less than $10 and be full. This was $11....we are in a recession
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