Penang Food Review : Little India

Last Saturday, Jeff took a bunch of us to try out some Indian food in Little India, somewhere near Beach Street. Jeff told us that he's taking us to an authentic banana leaf Indian food that tastes better than Banana Leaf (Passion of Kerala). Thus we drove down to Little India hoping to feast on some hebat Indian delicacies.Upon arrival, we parked our car along Beach Street and we walked into Little India, it's rather similar to China Town just that this time it's filled with Indians.


(Some sceneries inside Little India)



(Luckily we walked..look at the jam inside Little India..You wouldn't want to be stuck in them.)


Ah..After walking quite a distance, we reached our destination, Restoran Daun Pisang Sri Ananda Bahwan.Although at first I was a bit skeptical of that place but that thought vanished as soon as I started trying out the food.


(Remember,remember Sri Ananda Bahwan, the place that serves good Indian food..)

As I stepped inside the restaurant, there's so many dishes of Indian delicacies that when you go to normal nasi kandar stores such as Kayu, Kassim Mustaffa or Subaidah, you would utterly despise their effort.Hehe Well seriously, look at the dishes below and then compare them with what you get from the local nasi kandar stores.There's so much of variety that it put most of the indian restaurants to shame.








All the 3 photos above are just side dishes to be honest with ya.You will get to order their standard dishes from the menu.Believe me, those dishes are very good and worth the price.It is not spicy at all as I'm a person who cannot take hot and spicy food else my face will turn red immediately!So I'm a good indicator for the kepedasan level for food.




The two dishes above are mutton and chicken.To be honest, both of them tasted OK only in my opinion.The muttons are served in mild curry and its meat are not as hard as rocks.It's just ngam ngam for me.As for the chicken, the portion is quite weird as they served 2 pieces of chicken only for 5 person present there.So we had a hard time splitting up the portion for everyone, thus in the end only Sin Yee and me ate the chicken.



Here comes the bomb: Cauliflower! Who would have thought cauliflower could taste so nice! As I sank my teeth in one of those, there's an 'explosion' feeling inside your mouth as the cauliflower burst open and spreads its juice around your taste buds.This is one of their famous dish there so remember to order them when you eat there.



Next, the fried ikan bawal hitam covered with non-spicy curry rocks! It is one of the best fried fish I've ever eaten in an Indian restaurant.The crunchy skin and the smooth texture of the fish meat goes along very well with the curry plus there was no 'chau sui' smell in the fish making it taste good.Everyone walloped the fish so quickly that even though it was the last dish to arrive, it was the first dish to finish!



Finally, the fried brinjal (I don't think I spelt that correctly..hmm) was also one of the best side dishes we ordered.I guess no one loves brinjal if it was steamed since it doesn't really taste nice if it's done that way but if it's fried then it's a whole new different taste.This is also a must try if you ever visits this place.



Ahh..habis makan..100% satisfaction guaranteed but no refunds if you don't like the food here.Maybe you just don't like Indian food at all if you find this place lousy.:p


(ARGHHH...Die fishy die!!)