Our Reviewers Dine Out [Emma, Lily and Clara]

[Editor's note: All three of the young ones have provided a restaurant review below. It is left as an exercise for you, the Reader, to determine which Child wrote which review. As you will note, this is about as challenging as breathing.]

Reviewer Number 1:
On Sunday my family and I went to a buffet at a restaurant called Oh! Calcutta. It was really good. First there was this mushroom and fish soup that I liked a lot and just didn’t eat the mushrooms. They brought me and my sisters this lime drink that I also liked. At the buffet I had a really good cheese dish in butter sauce. There was fish in this green sauce which was good, and a fish salad. There was a shrimp dish too. I also tried something weird, thinking they were potatoes, but they turned out to be something that I’m not sure what it was, stuffed with something else that I don’t know what it was either. It didn’t really have that much taste, but it was in a good coconut sauce so that’s ok. They brought naan towards the end of the meal. For dessert there was vanilla ice cream, sandesh, and kiwi soufflé. It was a really good lunch.


Reviewer Number 2:
In a big shopping mall called Forum near our house, (this mall is seven stories tall, with escalators and elevators; and millions of shops and a big food court and a movie theater) there is a restaurant called Oh! Calcutta. My parents go there for dinner a lot, and they found out that on Saturday and Sunday afternoons, there are these big lunch buffets. I’d never been to Oh! Calcutta, but my parents had told me about its wonderful food, and Sunday afternoon, we went to the buffet.
Let me tell you, it was SO good! I had this awesome cold fish salad with onions and stuff to start, and then there were these delicious curries made with fish, shrimp, chicken, etc. to put on rice. And there was black pepper popods (which are these fried, crispy thingies, in this case cooked with black pepper in them) and buttery nan (an Indian flatbread). And for dessert, there was sandesh, (a Bengali sweet made of – well, I don’t exactly know what it’s made of, but it’s texture is kind of sandish (no pun intended) and it’s sweet and VERY good) and kiwi soufflé, and payesh, (rice pudding) and vanilla iced cream! Oh, it was heavenly. Next time you’re visiting Kolkata, march right up to the sixth floor (next to the movie theater, which by the way, serves TOMATO popcorn) in Forum, and go to Oh! Calcutta. I’m serious. You WON”T regret it.


Reviewer Number 3:
On Sunday we went to a buffet in Oh! Calcutta. There was shrimp, chicken and there were potatoes too. It was very nice. There was kiwi dessert and also sandesh. I ate a rose petal with it. There was also vanilla ice cream. It was very good.