The front gate
Lobby view
Room view 1
Room view 2
Room view 3
Nice tub
Open concept dressing room
View from my room
Heavy traffic everyday
Fake sky from the lounge area
Cool beer to end the day
The next thing is the mall located behind the hotel, a 5-10mins walk. A typical shopping mall but with sufficient shops and food. It is called Oberai mall. It is the Ganesha Festival when I was there and it is a big event over there. Below is the pics
Name of the mall
Inside view 1
Ganesha statue in the mall lobby
Outside view
Festival celebration 1
Many people on the streets
Went shopping during my R&R days with my colleagues. We were bought to a little building that sells traditional and model clothing. The way it works is very different, rather picking the clothes ourselves, you state what you are looking for and they try to bring many design samples for browsing. And you can take your time to choose the clothes or ask the staff to bring more design. Every piece is new. Below is the pic.
First time
Essential is the local taxis and tuk tuk taxis which is a scooter with cover. Most of the cabs we took doesn't go by meter. A fixed price most of the time. So you need to be aware of the estimated rates. However, tuk tuk cabs goes by the meter most of the time and it is cheap compared to normal cabs. They can't go long distance though.
Cab
Tuk Tuk cab
A must place to visit if you are in Mumbai is the Gateway of India. A nice heritage monument. Do take note of con mans and take care of your belongings.
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Another nice building
Interesting building
Famous heritage train station
View 2
Time for food, I have always like to try Macdonald's from different countries. For India, they have vegetarian/Fish/chicken burgers. I only tried the interesting Masala chicken burger. It taste a bit like our local otah maybe due to the spices. Overall, it is not as nice as I thought.
Masala Burger
Another interesting dish is they call momo locally. It is very similar to Chinese dumplings but the dipping sauce and filling is different. The ones I had is chicken with cheese but it is very nice overall. And some sweet dessert which I don't know the names and the Masala tea which I like it personally.
Momo
Masala tea and misc
Can't remember the restaurant name but it sells Western to local cuisine. I ordered a tandoor style dish but it is really nice too. The well marinated fish chunk is big and boneless, it is grilled nicely. Below is the pics of the restaurant and food. It is located in the shopping mall.
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Nice grilled chicken meat
my main concourse done tandoor style
Lastly, we tried out a local famous cafe that sells Chinese and local food. Of course, we tried the local ones since they are cheaper compared to SG. I tried the fish curry rice served with Basmati rice with a traditional glass bottle coke (been years seen I saw it in SG).
Nice nostalgic bottle
Fish curry with rice
