For exquisite vegetarian food, Flower Drum is probably the best restaurant in Chennai. Located on the second floor of Prince Plaza in Egmore, FD has a sophisticated ambiance with a mellow music in the background and a pleasant atmosphere. If you wish to relax over a leisure lunch with your friends or spend a romantic dinner with your partner, wind up at FD and have a pleasant dining experience.
The menu comprises a long list of items right from starters to main course to mouthwatering desserts. I indulged myself on the main course and desserts alone. Apart from that you have an impressive list of dishes under soups, starters, dimsums, satays, noodles and even juices.
We ordered for Kao Pad Jay, Flower Drum Special and Hao Hao Vegetable, the first two being rice varieties and Hao Hao a mixed vegetable gravy. Kao Pad Jay was delicious to say the least. A perfect blend of flavor, texture and taste. The aroma leaves you intoxicated. FD special rice is the signature dish at FD. Given a choice, I would recommend Kao Pad Jay to FD special rice since the latter was a little bland. All the same, both the dishes were tasty. Hao Hao Vegetable, a mixed vegetable dish with red chilies pan fried and seasoned with coriander leaves was delicious and complimented the rice very well. It had few fluffy tofu chunks in it as well. The experience was delightful.
Once we were through with the main course, happy and content, we ordered for a dessert that sounded quite amusing – Gluay Buad Chee. I should say this is the most delicious dessert I have ever tasted. It has banana stewed in sweetened coconut milk. Lip smacking is the word. The dessert arrived in a huge glass bowl with a dollop of vanilla ice cream topped over it. On a syrupy, luscious thick liquid of sweetened coconut milk mixed with what tasted like milkmaid and cut banana pieces and a scoop of vanilla ice cream, the dessert was melt-in-your-mouth and heavenly.
The restaurant service is pretty good with funky looking Far East young men dressed in neat uniforms and peculiar hairstyles. The one thing I couldn’t figure out till the end was what Hao Hao Vegetable really meant in spite of asking one of them there, who just shied away without letting me know what it was!! Strange!
On the whole, the restaurant deserves a definite thumps up, both for the service and the sumptuous food it serves. It now falls into my list of regular visits!
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ummm the place is a bit pricey eblitz but then its good food and thats wat counts, right?! when i come across more veggie eat outs ill make sure to put it up for you.... thanks for the visit. :)
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Hi.. i was searching for some authentic foreign veggie eat out.. (U've been coverin mostly non-veg specialities hitherto)... thanks.. keep writing more about veggie stuff as and when u find 'em... Is it pricey??? Keep writing...
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what's wat bittersoul????
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whts this??????
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doc! you've realllyy made a visit to my blog?
i cant believe it!! 
okay okay jokes apart! i think you should visit this place... am sure you'll love it here.. i've tried benjarong too a coupla times and its awesome as well! well, chinese, japanese, thai, malay or indo... its the 'food' that really matters, isnt it doc? its all a blend now!
and why oh why are you feeling left out dear doc??? we can always catch up for dining any day! and about your question... it takes nothing much, probably a rose, some music at the bg and jus the two of us! wat say doc!? its that simple! a perfect gentlewoman that i'm!
we can meet up wherever you choose doc... i always leave it to the man you know!!
thanks for the first comment on my page! :)))
psych
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Lovely Sweet Psyche,
FD? Well I havent heard of the place...but if you want some decent Thai food...Benjarong on TTK Road is an ok place...but then you know that none of the foods are authentic..it is always Indo-Thai...Indo Chinese :))))))))
The next time you go to a restaurant...I'd like you to take me too...I am kinda feeling left out here...we can make it a very romantic evening together....maybe I can even play the gentleman like Lochinvar. Btw what does it take to dine with you? Do lemme know.... :))))))))))))))))
LnRnM
d_w
PS: I am a pure pesco-pollo vegetarian so I really dont go to the complete veggie places! :)))))
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my pleasure sampath ji! will be great to meet up with you! :)
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dera psycahe, iam there on 9th july .. may be we can meet.. will confirm.. may be we an have the lovely rice dishes andhakka noodles....
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yes sampathji... even i was truly delighted to have an exclusive veg pallet served. the place is awesome. you should visit this place, let me know if you're coming down. maybe we could catch up at this place and indulge on the desset! :)
thank you for the sweet comment :)
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dear psyche,
mmm
love that desert...i am happy to see the vegatarian
pallet being serviced here...
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