I love spices; I love spicy food. Thai and Indian restaurants thrill me because I get cultural enlightenment aside from guttural satisfaction. Pictured above is the Non-Vegerarian Tandoori Platter of New Bombay, Yuchengco Museum branch. You get this plate that can be shared by three people for only P500 bucks! I can't believe how cheap it is, considering the prime location and nice interiors. The plate is a smorgasbord of chicken, mutton, fish and prawn, all cooked in tandoori. I thought the quantity meant quality would suffer, but I was delightedly wrong!
Just look at the beautiful colors on this plate:
It makes me want to run to New Bombay right now.
What made me fall in love with the restaurant, though, is really the breads. The naans and chapati are HUGE, and for only P55-P70. Other Indian restaurants only offer half the size of bread for the same price.
An Indian manager supervises the operations. Come 7pm, expect the place to be filled by Indian expats and office workers from buildings nearby. It's one of the cleaner Indian restaurants with good exhaust system (a very important consideration for me) out there. It's also very convenient to commute from the restaurant as buses stop right in front of it crossing Ayala straight to Buendia. The only thing I don't like about this restaurant is the walls are all clear glass, so everybody can see you from outside from any angle. I was extremely self-conscious as first, but when I got my hands on the warm chapati and my tastebuds were swimming with the smokey, spicy flavor of tandoori and curry, everything else didn't matter. After all, authentic Indian eating is all about the mess-- they don't even use utensils to scoop curry!
An Indian manager supervises the operations. Come 7pm, expect the place to be filled by Indian expats and office workers from buildings nearby. It's one of the cleaner Indian restaurants with good exhaust system (a very important consideration for me) out there. It's also very convenient to commute from the restaurant as buses stop right in front of it crossing Ayala straight to Buendia. The only thing I don't like about this restaurant is the walls are all clear glass, so everybody can see you from outside from any angle. I was extremely self-conscious as first, but when I got my hands on the warm chapati and my tastebuds were swimming with the smokey, spicy flavor of tandoori and curry, everything else didn't matter. After all, authentic Indian eating is all about the mess-- they don't even use utensils to scoop curry!
P.S. I watched Slumdog Millionaire that night in a totally non-related impulse. Or was it?
Geh! Envyyyy...... Looks so yummy..... >_<
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