Chinese Restaurant Birmingham, Thai Restaurant, The Mailbox » The Oriental http://www.theoriental.uk.com Chinese Restaurant Birmingham, Thai Restaurant, The Mailbox Tue, 31 Aug 2010 15:07:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 en hourly 1 Sake and Sushi Night http://www.theoriental.uk.com/2010/08/sake-an-sushi-night/ http://www.theoriental.uk.com/2010/08/sake-an-sushi-night/#comments Thu, 26 Aug 2010 13:54:27 +0000 barques http://www.theoriental.uk.com/?p=308 Come to our Sake and Sushi Night on Thursday 16th September: £10 for sushi platter and sake cocktails!

To launch our new Japanese menu, on Thursday 16th September 2010 we will be hosting a special Sake & Sushi night, where guests can enjoy a night of sake cocktails, sushi boxes and geisha glamour.

Head Chef Zhengdong Bai has created a menu for Japanese food lovers.

He says, “I love orthodox Hokkaido seafood sushi. The new menu will include mixed seafood sushi rolls, lobster sushi and salmon salad. I am also trying to make kinds of sushi to suits the British taste, for example, sushi wrapped with deep fried duck dipped with sweet and sour sauce.” The Oriental will also be introducing Sake and sake cocktails. Japanese sake (rice wine) is the second most popular drink in Japan, after Beer. Sake is an important part of Shinto religion and Japanese culture. Zhengdong Bai says, “There are many varieties of Japanese sake. The light sake can be with salads or light food and strong sake can be with seafood, meat or fruits. Sake is good for the stomach, it is said it can be useful for beauty and losing weight.”

Guests can also enter a competition to win tickets to the Birmingham Royal Ballet’s production of Romeo & Juliet. Celebrating a strong and growing relationship with Asia due to successful past and forthcoming international tours to Japan, The Birmingham Royal Ballet has offered us four tickets for the Sake & Sushi night. Diners at The Oriental will have the chance to enter a competition and win tickets to see the company’s forthcoming and much celebrated ballet performance of Romeo and Juliet. Which runs at Birmingham’s Hippodrome Theatre from Tuesday 28th September to Saturday 2nd October 2010. www.brb.org.uk

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]]> http://www.birminghampost.net/feed/ 0 Insight Magazine reviews The Oriental http://www.theoriental.uk.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/Insight-review-oriental.pdf http://www.theoriental.uk.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/Insight-review-oriental.pdf#comments Wed, 07 Jul 2010 12:32:37 +0000 barques http://www.theoriental.uk.com/?p=285 Click here to read Insight Magazine review of The Oriental.

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]]> http://www.theoriental.uk.com/2010/02/style-birmingham-magazine-review/feed/ 0 Win A Case of Tiger Beer for Chinese New Year! http://www.theoriental.uk.com/2010/02/win-a-case-of-tiger-beer-for-chinese-new-year/ http://www.theoriental.uk.com/2010/02/win-a-case-of-tiger-beer-for-chinese-new-year/#comments Tue, 02 Feb 2010 11:05:49 +0000 barques http://www.theoriental.uk.com/?p=240 To help celebrate Chinese New Year, any customers that order from The Oriental’s Chinese New Year menu will automatically be entered into a prize draw to win a case of Tiger Beer!

Just click here to view The Oriental’s Chinese New Year menu.

Download Chinese New Year Menu

Download Chinese New Year Menu

]]> http://www.theoriental.uk.com/2010/02/win-a-case-of-tiger-beer-for-chinese-new-year/feed/ 0 THE ORIENTAL TO CELEBRATE THE YEAR OF THE TIGER http://www.theoriental.uk.com/2010/01/the-oriental-to-celebrate-the-year-of-the-tiger/ http://www.theoriental.uk.com/2010/01/the-oriental-to-celebrate-the-year-of-the-tiger/#comments Wed, 20 Jan 2010 09:26:18 +0000 barques http://www.theoriental.uk.com/?p=231 The Oriental Bar and Restaurant in the Mailbox will be celebrating the Chinese New Year in February to herald the arrival of the Tiger.

According to the Chinese Zodiac, the Year of 2010 is the Year of the Tiger, which commences on February 14, 2010 and ends on February 2, 2011. The Tiger is the third sign in the Chinese Zodiac cycle, and it is a sign of bravery.

With Valentines Day on the same day, it will be a very busy time for the Oriental. So there wil be a special Chinese New Year menu from the week of the 14th onwards.

]]> http://www.theoriental.uk.com/2010/01/the-oriental-to-celebrate-the-year-of-the-tiger/feed/ 0 Get the best Japanese sake at the Oriental! http://www.theoriental.uk.com/2009/12/get-the-best-japanese-sake-at-the-oriental/ http://www.theoriental.uk.com/2009/12/get-the-best-japanese-sake-at-the-oriental/#comments Tue, 08 Dec 2009 09:39:02 +0000 barques http://www.theoriental.uk.com/?p=217 If you ever wanted to try decent sake, you would probably have to venture to celebrity hangouts such as Hakkasan, Zuma or Nobu. Now you can try the best in Japanese sake at the Oriental Bar and Restaurant at The Mailbox.  Owner Harish Nathwani has painstakingly researched the best quality sake for his us to enjoy.

“Five years ago, the quality of sake in Britain was not so high, so people have been put off, but we brought the best to Birmingham. Good sake can be as complex and subtle as vintage wine.”

Sake is made from large-grained rice (shinpaku-mai) and sweet spring water. Before brewing – sake is technically a beer than a rice wine.

As sushi bars and noodle canteens multiply, we will see more of Japan’s distinctive drink. It makes a refreshing change and I predict many more of us will be cheering “kampai!”

]]> http://www.theoriental.uk.com/2009/12/get-the-best-japanese-sake-at-the-oriental/feed/ 0 The Oriental Restaurant celebrates the Year of the Ox http://www.theoriental.uk.com/2009/11/the-oriental-restaurant-celebrates-the-year-of-the-ox/ http://www.theoriental.uk.com/2009/11/the-oriental-restaurant-celebrates-the-year-of-the-ox/#comments Tue, 24 Nov 2009 11:46:15 +0000 barques http://www.theoriental.uk.com/?p=210 The Oriental in The Mailbox invited guests to help them celebrate the start of the Chinese New Year on 26 January.

The Ox is symbolic of prosperity that is achieved through hard work and it is a perfect reminder that Birmingham businesses need to pull together and work hard to escape economic hardship. VIPs, press and celebrities enjoyed drinks, dim sum and Chinese Dragon dancers.

Article from Birmingham Life magazine

Article from Birmingham Life magazine (Click to download PDF)

]]> http://www.theoriental.uk.com/2009/11/the-oriental-restaurant-celebrates-the-year-of-the-ox/feed/ 0 It’s no fluke The Oriental was recently named in the Times’ list of the country’s top 10 pan-Asian restaurants, says Jon Perks. http://www.theoriental.uk.com/2009/07/its-no-fluke-the-oriental-was-recently-named-in-the-times-list-of-the-countrys-top-10-pan-asian-restaurants-says-jon-perks/ http://www.theoriental.uk.com/2009/07/its-no-fluke-the-oriental-was-recently-named-in-the-times-list-of-the-countrys-top-10-pan-asian-restaurants-says-jon-perks/#comments Mon, 20 Jul 2009 22:57:14 +0000 Nikhil http://www.theoriental.uk.com/?p=180 A visit to The Oriental reminded me of my friend Harry’s favourite saying. Whenever we go out for a meal, he’ll glance at the myriad of dishes on the menu and say “where there is choice there is misery”.

Knowing Harry it’s probably a quote from Vic Reeves or Harry Hill…

Well at The Oriental the choice is mindboggling, but not misery-making. Quite the opposite.

With its menu now boasting a fresh influx of great dishes – with a swathe of new Malaysian options – you are spoilt for choice, but in a nice way.

See the full review here

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at lunchtime? Try the Oriental – it’s recently been rated 
by the Times as one of the top ten pan-Asian restaurants
in the UK. The new-look lunchtime menu offers a range
of oriental tapas, noodle dishes, noodle soups
and main courses. 

I tagged on to a group of twenty suited and chattery
lunchtime diners, and opted for Yuk Sung as a starter.
This is a rewarding, light meal of finely chopped carrot
mixed with minced chicken, which is then stir-fried,
set on a bed of vermicelli-like strands of rice paste,
sprinkled with sesame seeds and served up
on trimmed iceberg lettuce leaves.

Splash on the soy sauce (if you like it), roll the leaves up
and eat.

For a main course I plumped for Koay Teow,
which is a noodle-and-beansprout recipe that’s served
with either beef or prawns. The contrast between the slippery,
slightly gelatinous texture of the flat rice noodles,
and the crunchy beansprouts is delightful. The chilli 
isn’t overdone, and a glass of water
or a bottle of Budweiser goes down 
well with it.

The bar here is well-stocked
as you can expect, with champagnes, wines,
spirits, and a selection of classy bottled beers,
including Chang, and Magners if you like your cider,
and there are the cocktails, Wild Orchid
and Tokyo Rose, for example, and the more
familiar Screaming Orgasm and Sex on the Beach.

You don’t quite get a beach with the restaurant
but you get the expanse of water at the junction
with the Worcester Canal, and a view along the canal
up to Gas St Basin and Broad Street, and with the sun
out, the reflections on the water and the pacifying
oriental music, it’s a restful place to eat and drink
during time out of the office.

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