Little India

Well another day at the office for Dave & another day of pottering, gyming & sitting on my laptop for me, researching cheap flights to KL & Thailand. Having Malaysia & Thailand on our doorstep is definitely one of the highs of being here! Planning a trip to the Phi Phi islands in Thailand so very excited about that. And of course looking forward to some authentic Thai & Malaysian food! On the subject of food....

For the Foodies

The next on our list was Little India, I met Dave from the office, well eventually after standing outside the wrong building for about 10mins, oops! We jumped on the MRT (Singapore's 'much better' version of the tube!) and headed to curry central. Now we didn't actually research where to eat and as it was dark & raining we just stumbled into the first restaurant that handed us a flyer & a '10% off' voucher! And we weren't disappointed. It took us a long time to choose our dishes as the menu was huge! But eventually after many minutes of slurping on our Mango & Strawberry Lassi's we had decided, much to the delight of our waitress! So we ordered the Chicken Achari (chicken pieces marinated in yogurt, spices and lemon juice), Mutton Mysore (marinated in lots of different spices, with whole dried red chilli's & a tomato based sauce), Aloo Jeera (potatoes & cumin), Chilli Pakoras, Rogani Naan, Missi Roti & Jeera Rice. When trying to decide if we needed one or two rice dishes, the waitress chirped in and said 'I think you should start with one as eating too much food is not good for you' and as she walked off Dave and I pondered over the possibility that we had ordered too much food!

The Chilli Pakoras were first to arrive; whole big green chilli's stuffed with spices and covered in a very light batter, not greasy at all. The Chicken Achari was next and delicious! (I'm glad Dave convinced me to order this over my usual Jalfrazi), the chicken was not dry at all as I feared it might be, it was grilled & covered in this thin layer of creamy spicy marinade. This was followed by the Mutton, rice, potatoes and breads. The Mutton was not chewy at all as again I feared it might be (Dave had assured me as long as it's cooked correctly Mutton can be just as tasty as it's younger counterpart)and the dried red chilli's had just the right amount of heat, the sauce was dark & rich. The Naan bread was thin & crispy, not doughy & soggy like you get in the UK. It was all without fault.

And low & behold we managed to eat all of it bar a few spoonfuls of rice!