What's New Restaurants: Flavour Promise in Maizidian

What do you get when you cross Japanese food with European café culture and throw in a dash of Chinese flavor? It would seem you get Flavour Promise, a small Japanese restaurant secreted away on the first floor of a run-of-the-mill office block on Maizidian Jie.

Bear with me before you flick over the page, thinking “that sounds disgusting.” Fusion is admittedly a difficult concept to pull off but Flavour Promise does it so effortlessly that you barely even notice they’re doing it in the first place. It was not without trepidation that we chose the Italian Dan Dan Noodle meal (RMB 55) from the brief, yet well-priced, lunch menu. However, our fears were allayed when the dish arrived, a pile of toothsome homemade spaghetti in a piquant sesame-based sauce, with just enough ground chili pepper to remind you of the original inspiration behind it. Not quite dan dan noodles, not quite pasta, but quite delicious.

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If you still yearn for something more recognizable, perhaps choose the katsu sandwich set (RMB 50), which comes precariously anchored with a toothpick, the perfectly fried pork cutlets and heaps of lightly dressed shredded cabbage longing to escape. 

Flavour Promise
Daily 9.30am-2.30pm, 6-11pm. 1/F, Longbao Dasha, 36 Maizidian Jie, Chaoyang District (6584 3358)
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