Formerly known as Chandragupt, China Bistro, located bang opposite Shiv Sena Bhavan, is one of the best known eateries specializing in Chinese cuisine in Dadar-Shivaji Park area. We dropped in here for lunch, and decided to try out their fixed menu. Offering choices in soups, starters, mains and desserts, as well as one complimentary round of mocktail or beer, this seemed to be an interesting choice as opposed to the usual a la carte. We skipped the soup, since it was only the Sweet Corn Soup (veg and chicken variants), something you'll get pretty much anywhere. We opened our innings with Lemon Iced Tea, and Sangria Basil Iced Tea, the former was okay, nothing special, but the latter was (a mocktail) simply superb, almost as good as the genuine alcoholic sangria. Amongst the starters the first one was Cottage Cheese Jiang Chilli, which is paneer in chilli gravy, and it set the tone for the rest of the meal, the paneer being wonderfully soft, and the gravy being perfectly spicy. Next was Pan Fried Chilli Fish, pomfret in chilli sauce and it was simply wow. My brother who's not much into seafood couldn't get enough of it, and that makes it a must-have. Up next was the Red Dragon Chicken, it looks like the usual crispy chicken pieces but is quite soft, I found it to be average, not much to write home about. The final starter was the Chicken and Coriander Dim Sum, one of the recommendations here. The outer layer was quite thin, the way I like it, and the chicken was beautifully cooked, dim sum lovers need to sample this for sure. For the mains we started with Corn, Potato and Water Chestnut Tsing Hoi gravy with Ginger Capsicum Veg Rice, both were ordinary, not exactly tasteless but not particularly yummy either. Up next was Kowloon Pot Chicken with Chicken Fried Rice, and while the rice was okay, not having much of chicken, the gravy was really nice, having flat slabs of meat, I quite liked this one. The last of the mains was Prawns in Black Bean Sauce with Wok Tossed Chicken Hakka Noodles, and this was by far the best of the mains. The prawns were a delight, the dark sauce was excellent and the noodles were nice too, not too wheat-y as sometimes is the case, I strongly recommend this one. We wrapped up our meal with Caramel Custard for dessert, and it gets a double thumbs up from me. The caramel was neither overpowering nor too sweet and the custard was just spot on, taste wise as well as texture wise. To sum up then, China Bistro has more hits than misses, you need to be slightly choosy with what you order. The fixed menu is way more economical than a la carte, without compromising on quality or quantity, so definitely an option to consider.